# AI Context for David Bennett
David Bennett is a London-based thinker and photographer with a poetic view of life and an eye for the unspoken. He’s a seeker of beauty, ambiguity, and quiet meaning, often exploring the world through his lens and his words. His interests lean toward the philosophical and reflective, and he’s drawn to quotes like “Don’t spend your life making up your mind,” or “It is easy to believe that the world is made of marmalade when you have your head stuck inside the marmalade jar.”
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The People In The Photograph
By the way, I don’t know any of the people in the photograph in the previous post, Velvia: Ideal For Landscapes. And if you wondered whether the man in the Panama hat in that photograph is looking at me, you can see from this crop here below, that he is not. I try not to…
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Velvia: Ideal for Landscapes
Which image do you prefer? One is a JPEG straight out of the camera, and the other is a RAW file with no adjustments and then converted to JPEG. The JPEG is set to one of Fuji’s presets, which in this case is Velvia Vivid. That is set to replicate Velvia film that Fuji has…
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The Mousetrap
On Tuesday 28 July, we went to see performance number 30,367 of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap at St. Martin’s Theatre in London . We went in part because the play has been running for 74 years, and is the longest running play in the world. So we figured something must be good about it to…
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Marilyn Monroe
The exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London is on now, and ends 6 September 2026. I snapped these with my phone to show the many faces of Marilyn Monroe. Tamara and I came out of the exhibition feeling positive towards Marilyn and what she gave out to the world. The texts below are…
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Just The Right Number Of Cooks
Just The Right Number Of Cooks ‘Too many cooks spoil the broth’, the saying goes. Maybe these cooks are not too many, though, because they are at cooking school. Not that I knew that then when I photographed them. I was heading for ‘The Classic Camera’ shop, which is in a courtyard very close to…