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Why Aren’t We Talking About It All The Time?
For years I have been fascinated with how the human eye perceives depth, and particularly with how this relates to the two-dimensional photographic image. Many is the time I have come across a fascinating scene, full of nearby objects in interesting relationships, or perhaps a view of a city plaza, only to find that the photos I snap look like nothing much when I get home. There is an unbridgeable gap between how the brain combines the images coming from two eyes, and how that perception can be approximated in a flat print. This gap is intriguing and frustrating.
For some reason, I’ve never seen this issue discussed in the photography community—on...

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Michael Alford is a technology consultant and life-long amateur photographer based in Washington DC. After studying the history of art as an undergraduate and obtaining an architecture degree, he has spent most of his career in environmental policy and environmental education. Photography has been a constant interest and passion, from his first brownie box camera at age eight to the digital cameras and drones of today. He is fascinated by all aspects of the field—art, science, technology and human perception.
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