Hello friends, it’s me, the human writer who technically owns this site and theoretically writes material for it. We all know AIs are now doing a lot of the writing in this world, and I have certainly been using AI a lot to do chores like “write me a blog post” and “build me a beaver simulator.” I will even admit that several of my last written posts on this site have been “assisted” by AI tools that probably deserve more credit, but so far I’ve held off on using AI to make generative edits to my photos. And that issue has brought me back to my keyboard, which I am actually typing on with my own human fingers and not letting some AI do the work. My photos are all hand-crafted by me, but does that still make sense in our age of AI wonders? Did it ever make sense? Let’s take a deep dive.

I’ve already written several times about my work trip to Paris in 2018 which yielded an absolutely incredible evening of photography after a solid day of rain. After taking two sunset photos of the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel and its statue on top, the evening continued with blue hour providing a benedictory backdrop for the Musée d’Orsay at twilight. This was the final photo I took on that evening, closing out an extraordinary day of weather and photography.