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title: "Broken Glass"
section: art
description: "A broken lens and college memories"
tags: ["photographs", "nature", "travel", "life"]
created: 2024-03-18T22:00:00Z
updated: 2025-10-04T13:30:00Z
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html: https://iammatthias.com/art/1710824453471-broken-glass
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# Broken Glass

A day by the lake with college friends in 2011. The 24-70mm lens I had borrowed from school had a jammed focus mechanism, which defiantly stuck while on a granite islet in the middle of the lake.

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