Mitchel Lensink

Making a case for a digital Ricoh GR1, The Ricoh GR1-D. Yes, you read that correctly: the GR1-D. mitchellens.ink/monologue/th...

I feel bad for plants growing in bad places. They are stuck in a spot without the option to move.

I feel bad for plants growing in bad places. They are stuck in a spot without the option to move.

Everything is a 'community' now. And I think the term has lost its value because of it. mitchellens.ink/monologue/bu...

I had some thoughts about the frequency and and liberty we apply the word 'community' for anything that requires the participation of more than a handful of people. mitchellens.ink/monologue/bu...

The marketing for the MacBook Neo is so interesting. The way Apple is explaining the concept of a MacBook, with MacOS on it, to people who've only known iPhones is a real craft.

Flying back home today but have a 7 hour layover at MEX. Any suggestions on how to kill that time?

This take may be lukewarm but the fact that everybody can get a platform now makes platforms pretty useless. We're all special. Nobody's special.

Does anybody actually know why the US government is at war with its own citizens? It seems counterintuitive, counterproductive, immoral, and aimless.

Might go for a run on the beach when we get to Mazunte. Burn some calories, organize some thoughts.

Just said 'hahaha' to ChatGPT. I'm cooked.

Just got engaged. Very surreal. Happy about it though.

Listening to Kendrick Lamar's DAMN album in reverse and playing Geoguessr is a big vibe, if you ask me. Pinch of red whine and I'm zoning.

I'm going XF50mm f2.0 as my only lens for my upcoming Mexico trip. I need a change of pace.

Siri on the iPhone now defaults to opening the App-specific Settings page, instead of the app. Just great.

How much percentage of coverage would we call this? Maybe about 85%? 90?

2025 was probably my worst year so far. Hopefully my worst year ever. I don't want to give into that negativity. But also don't want to deminish it. So I try to take my learnings and distill them in here: mitchellens.ink/dialogue/clo...

Managing my evergrowing archive of work is an ongoing battle with the costs that come with it. Currently deleting all monthly exports from the past ten years because I realized my Lightroom catalog provided the access and the RAWs + .XMPs are the actual archive. How about y'all?

I am drinking all of my calories and I should stop. But I also feel like this is not the time.

I'm about an hour short on sleep on average for the past two years. No wonder I'm tired.

I made a Lightroom Classic preset by feeding ChatGPT my current preset, a bunch of reference images, and copy-pasting the outup into LR CC ‘s settings.

I think about moving to the US just to drive a bunch of sick cars we don’t get over here

Who’s familiar with C-Stands with arms and gripheads? Are there any common pitfalls I should avoid? My goal is to have backdrops as well as lamps be supported by two stands and a crossbar. I need a good height for full-body shots too. Anybody with ideas they can share?

Writing my monthly newsletter. I'm late again. If you want to receive monthly updates a week too late then you can subscribe here: mitchellens.ink/subscribe/

Suddenly very excited to bring back a vintage Jay-Z vibe into my general life for the upcoming two weeks.

Idea: horse-friendly horse-races, where the horses don't race at all and just hang out together. Name: Stagnation

I was able to pinpoint the effect of AI on creative work in a 25-week experiment. This’ll be the last time I post this essay. So give it a click and a read right now please. I promise it’s worth it. mitchellens.ink/closer/photo...

Contrarian

I'm so close to crying on a daily basis. And I'm not embarrassed. I'm proud. I might finally be I tune with who I am.

For those in fear of AI 'taking their jobs' I tell you: be a human that serves humans. mitchellens.ink/closer/photo...

Playing Minecraft on my iPad to zone out. Even there I adopted a cat from a random village. Now I feel sad when digging down to ores while this cat is meowing in my ear.

Just landed in Girona. Immediately drove to L'Estartit, where were staying for the week. It's midnight. I'm hungry and thirsting for a pint. Everything's closed. To bed it is then...

Yesterday, after wrapping up my work meetings (so many meetings, always meetings), I took the afternoon to myself. I discovered that the whole world is out there all the time, being interesting, idyllic, beautiful, peacefully there. It's so easy to forget that when you're stuck behind a screen.

This one is gonna need reposting a couple of times: mitchellens.ink/dialogue/sou...

I don’t push my newsletter enough. Even though there’s nothing in the world I care more about. So if you like photography, exploration and… personal reflections about those (I guess?) please consider subscribing. You can read my latest newsletter here: mitchellens.ink/dialogue/sou...

I have some news! mitchellens.ink/dialogue/bui...

Can we normalize pushing your personal website like any other piece of content please? Here's mine before a possibly incoming redesign: mitchellens.ink

might really have to commit to shooting black and white for a full year

The best thing to happen recently is Andrew T. Kearns returning to YouTube. youtu.be/PxhO2v8cRgY...

Can somebody please make the same keyboard shortcuts work on both Lightroom Classic as well as Lightroom CC (for iPad) because it’s annoying to hit the ‘R’ key for the crop tool and nothing happening on my iPad. Adobe plz fix.

I normally forget to plug my monthly newsletter, but some of my best writing is in issue #045 of Dialogue and I don’t want to keep that from you. mitchellens.ink/dialogue/wan...

Time to wrap it up and sit with my editing work. Thank you for following along with my 2025 USA trip. Maybe we'll do a part two later this year. For now I'm mostly excited to go back home though. 😮‍💨

Driving around in this thing for the upcoming week.

BOI – PDX

Uploading some recent work to my online archive, if you're interested: archive.mitchellens.ink