ESSAYS

There are places where photography becomes inseparable from the environment itself.Forests saturated with moisture, narrow paths close to waterfalls, damp ground, fog that never fully lifts. These are the conditions I often seek and also the ones that put the greatest stress on both photographer and equipment. When NYA-EVO   provided me with the Fjord 60 , I tested it exactly where I normally work: in humid woods, near cascading water, and during multi-day outings where wea

The Midnight Lodge did not begin as a project .It began as a possibility. When Midjourney v3  was released, something fundamental shifted.For the first time, artificial intelligence was not merely assembling textures or generating abstract visuals — it was capable of shaping fantasy landscapes . Coherent, atmospheric, imperfect, but alive. For someone coming from photography, painting, cinema, and fantasy imagery, that moment felt less like a disruption and more like a long-a

There has never been a time when creating images was easier.And rarely has it been harder to create images that truly mean  something. We live surrounded by photographs.Endless, polished, spectacular.Images designed to impress for a second, to scroll past, to be replaced immediately by something louder, sharper, more extreme. The pace is relentless.The rhythm imposed.The attention span compressed. In a system that rewards speed, repetition and immediate impact, photography is