If you’re looking for something challenging to shoot, there are a handful of regular balloon festivals around the United States. The Great Reno Balloon Race (GRBR) is among the top. If you’re not planning a visit to the Truckee Meadows in September though, find one near where you will be, at least once. Your memories…
Read More Covered in this episode: A followup on the idea of available time, hot air balloons, being kind in the field, and understanding how noise isn’t always static.
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It’s just such a good song on its own accord (Time by Pink Floyd). And in the process of looking for a version for this post, I ran across this video to go with it and I have to say, except for the fact that it’s probably a 6 1/2 minute copyright infringement for all the…
Read More Let’s talk briefly about the outside pressures to do something (anything) but feed our need to create.
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The whole paradigm of “making sausage” is one that sums up so many endeavors. The reality is that it takes blood, sweat, and tears to create anything of value and in the digital-vs-film, processed-vs-not arguments, that reality is lost. What about that opening quote? Take a look at this analysis attempting to properly attribute it.…
Read More Wherein I just touch on a couple of touchy subjects: film vs digital and processed vs unprocessed. Don’t worry; I slaughter no sacred cows (yet). This one’s a little longer than the other episodes so far in order to cover some of the fundamentals of certain arguments.
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[An editorial note: the links below are not affiliate links. If I ever do start including those, I’ll make it clear then. In the meantime, if you want to support this effort, consider sponsoring the podcast or purchasing prints. Thank you!] I’m going to go backwards a bit in this companion and deal with the…
Read More Wherein I get to dig a little deeper into Ansel Adams’ interview, Joseph Campbell and mythology, and the concept of an eternity’s worth of storytelling.
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If you haven’t already listened to podcast episode #1, do that now. This companion fills in some of the blanks as far as some of the details referenced but does not repeat the main content. Here is the 1983 Playboy interview by David Sheff that is referenced in this episode (and will be in future…
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