My images are sharper than yours.
I acknowledge that your pictures are always crisply in focus,
But my images are so sharp that they can cut your cornea if you look at them at 400% magnification on a laptop.
My images are sharper than yours.
My lens is faster than yours.
Your 50mm 1.2 is speedy, and can extract detail from a scene on a gloomy day
But my 85mm 0.1 is so fast that if you stand close to the front element you can HEAR the photons being sucked in, allowing me to take close-up test shots of flowers in the middle of the night.
My lens is faster than yours.
My opinions on photography are more valid than yours.
Yes, I’ve read your blog musings and seen your mildly heated Twitter exchanges
But I have espoused my views on – and even been banned from- numerous Facebook groups, which makes me a hands-down authority. Looking down at you from this height, I pity you.
My opinions on photography are more valid than yours.
My photo of a tree is more important than yours.
Your tree was photographed in a public park in Nuneaton
But my tree was captured on an untouched hilltop in Guatemala, and it’s somehow more magical as a result.
My photo of a tree is more important than yours.
My lens is more radioactive than yours.
Yes, your lens has a yellow sheen, signifying its above average radioactive emission
But my lens has a yellow GLOW, because it was forged in the mines of Mordor, and I’ll never be able to use it. I’m even on a government watchlist. So there.
My lens is more radioactive then yours.
My strap is more exclusive than yours.
Granted, your hand-braided vegetable dyed reindeer leather strap looks great on your K1000,
But the strap on my Leica is constructed from the silk of spiders only found in Wetzlar, interwoven into a thin glossy black rope that really pops against a rough wooden background in my Instagram pics.
My strap is more exclusive than yours.
My Bokeh is swirlier than yours.
Your bokeh has good swirl, like a carnival of trippy coloured discs
But my bokeh has baroque intertwined swirls from another dimension- and if you look at them for long enough you can see God.
My bokeh is swirlier than yours.
My camera collection is bigger than yours.
Your collection does look good in the specially made glass cases in your conservatory
But my camera collection is so large that I keep it in offsite storage, and I’ll never be able to use all of them in my lifetime.
My camera collection is bigger than yours.
My lens has more 3D pop than yours.
Your lens has a good amount of 3D pop, that’s for sure. I’ve seen your test shots.
But my lens has pop that enters into the 4th dimension, creating a level of clarity that you- or I for that matter, will never see. But I know it’s there and that’s what matters.
My lens has more 3D pop than yours.
My blurry Polaroids are more magical than yours.
Your blurring does have an indistinct dreamy quality, I’ll give you that.
But my Polaroids have such an indefinable, ethereal othernessto their blurring that even the Germans don’t have a word to describe . And I have hundredsof them.
My blurry Polaroids are more magical than yours.
My photography is still better than yours.
You have been taking pictures for a few years and yes, I’ve seen your work improve,
But I’m older than you, so I’ll always be better. You may as well give up.
My photography is still better than yours.
By ANIL MISTRY
Anil Mistry is a creative director and photographer. You can find him here:
Website: www.Anilmistryphoto.com
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Twitter: @anilmistry
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Steve on My Photography is STILL Better Than Yours – by Anil Mistry
Comment posted: 08/12/2018
jeremy north on My Photography is STILL Better Than Yours – by Anil Mistry
Comment posted: 08/12/2018
I really like your sharp images especially the one of your Contax with the fancy strap sitting on the old wooden table ;-)
Dave Donnelly on My Photography is STILL Better Than Yours – by Anil Mistry
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Chris S. on My Photography is STILL Better Than Yours – by Anil Mistry
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Martin Siegel on My Photography is STILL Better Than Yours – by Anil Mistry
Comment posted: 08/12/2018
I admit your articles have a witty, satirical quality, I have read them.
But my articles, which I'm gonna write soon, will not only witty be but will also have a depth that's gonna make you wet your pants laughing a week or month later when they will come back from your unconscious and you suddenly get the depth of the wit (DOW) that's hidden deep inside.
My articles will be funnier than yours.
But I beg you, <>
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Dale Willetts on My Photography is STILL Better Than Yours – by Anil Mistry
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Achim Fischer on My Photography is STILL Better Than Yours – by Anil Mistry
Comment posted: 08/12/2018
BTW: Obviously my photography is better than yours because I'm even older than you.
Larry Bosch on My Photography is STILL Better Than Yours – by Anil Mistry
Comment posted: 08/12/2018
And just as bad are all those IG lifestyle/ influencers/models/photographers. God I hate it all. To each their own, but I get the whole Vivian Maier situation now and why she never developed any of her work. She was probably also surrounded by douchebags of some sort (she didn't trust men) & wanted no part of it.
My photography is way better than no one's, I know that. I won't have books with my name on it or be in galleries or be amongst the trendy and popular accounts on social media, but I will enjoy my time outside with my camera, shooting some film and doing it because it's one of the only things I know (other than music) that silences the noise in my head.
It's probably not the place to post this kinda stuff under such a great work of poetry, but thanks for the chuckle...
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Love the follow up to the first part, amusing as always, great job again
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Comment posted: 21/12/2018
I almost never come across posts on fora from Leica shooters feeling better than non-Leica shooters.
I only read things from frustrated people ... basically something like this: "I can't afford a Leica, that's why I hate people shooting Leica ...".
Poor world ...
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