Category Archives: Essays

Website Rebranding

This announcement article provides readers with some advanced information and details about our website rebranding which is currently underway. Back in July 2019 we rebranded our photography website to better reflect our transition to the M4/3 system, while also recognizing our past work with Nikon 1.

The rebranding to Small Sensor Photography has served us well over the past seven years and helped us build a strong, niche brand built around specific gear ownership within the photography community. Our website rebranding currently underway to Photographic Freedom, is another step in our creative journey, and will better position our work for the future.

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Opportunity Cost as a Life Skill

This article discusses opportunity cost as a life skill, and how using this approach can help keep us centred on what is important to us. Assessing opportunity cost in our decisions can help unlock more of our personal potential.  Our lives are the products of the decisions we’ve made in the past. Opportunity costs that are not well considered… or ignored… can result in regrets as we enter our later years.

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Fraudulent Prints of Thomas Stirr work

This posting is to advise readers that there are fraudulent prints of my work being promoted and sold on the internet. My wife and I no longer produce any prints of our work whatsoever. In fact, we donated our HP Z3200 12-colour printer some time ago.

If you see any websites claiming to be selling prints of my work, please be aware that I am not associated with any of these websites. What is being offered are fraudulent prints. These fraudulent prints show my Copyright, but are not authorized for sale by me. My work has be stolen by these websites. If you come across any of these fraudulent websites you can support my work by lodging a complaint to Google and other search engines.

Article 1500 Milestone Reached

Well… it took eleven years… but this posting represents the milestone of creating and publishing article 1500 on this website. Time is a very strange thing. On one hand it feels like ages ago when my first article on this website was published back in January 2015. On the other hand, I find it incredulous that eleven years have passed. I think I must have blinked more than a few times as the years slipped by.

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