Notes on Photography, Poetry, a Better Good Life, and the Eternity of the Instant

— Let’s start this little ramble off with some notes and quotes on photography. (The photo in the header and the one below were both taken in this month of April in my city, Edmonton). — From one of my new favourite books, Sofia Samatar’s Opacity, she talks about the writer Mike Kanai, “who wrote about an impossible photograph, a photograph-as-collection that could contain “all the fascination that the eternity of the instant holds.” — Which reminds me of the book, Photographs Not Taken edited by Will Steacy. Which reminds me how much I hate talking about how lousy AI is because it is lousy but also because I’d rather just be talking about photography. But this is a kind of photography you can’t AI lol. From the intro: “…there are many kinds of missing pictures…(just as there are many shades of darkness). There are pictures that could not be taken, pictures that were prevented from being taken, pictures that were taken and failed, pictures that were almost taken but abandoned,…