My photography style is to have no style…

Neither am I trying to win photography contests…

I simply do my best to tell the story of a place and its inhabitants as honestly as I can and to allow the images to speak mostly for themselves.

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To that end, I’ve used cheap point and shoots, smart phones, and middle of the road consumer cameras–each small and light enough to carry in my pants pocket, functional enough to give me some manual control, and easy enough to operate with one hand in most situations.

Like most things in life, this is a tradeoff. While I have missed some great shots because the auto focus was too slow, depth of field uncontrolled, or the light sensor not quite sensitive enough, I have gotten some great shots because I was able to unobtrusively photograph as if I was a fly on the wall.

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FYI, some of my best travel stories involved bent, broken, and stolen cameras and what happened next.

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It is important to me that I photograph honestly. I do not employ artificial means to get “the perfect shot”–no stakeouts, no drones, no VIP access. Every one of my photographs could have been taken by anyone with a point and shoot camera, two good feet, one good eye, a smile, and sometimes a wee bit of courage. Furthermore, all my photographs are “natural”: I shoot in ambient light with no filters or clever time exposures, even if this means that the photograph is blurred or less than technically perfect.

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After I return home from my travels, I perform almost no post-processing. I will crop here and there in order to frame images appropriately or to eliminate superfluous details. I sometimes adjust the brightness and always resize the images in order to optimize them for the web. Beyond that, I would never “photoshop” an image in order to make it “pop”. What you see in the photo is exactly what you would have seen with your own eyes if you were standing there with me.

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Creative Commons

I have no desire to sell and make money from my photographs, but I do encourage others to use them for educational and artistic non-commercial purposes. To that end, Frank embraces the ethic of the Creative Commons and grants usage of his images under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

In a nutshell, this grants you permission to download and edit any photographs for your personal, non-commercial use or to download, edit, and share any content as long as you give credit to Frank Peter as the original source.

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