Category: Stories
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99 Videos Later, I Have Learned Absolutely Nothing
This is my 100th video. And after 99 videos, I can tell you exactly what I have learned about being a YouTuber. Absolutely nothing. I am not going to sell you some course on how to get 80,000 subscribers in a week. That is pure nonsense. I am sitting here proud of about a thousand…
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I Found a 45 Year Old Canon A-1 at a Thrift Store
I got a tip that a Knoxville thrift store had a pristine, boxed Canon A-1. I had to go look. The A-1 was my first real camera, my high school graduation gift in 1983. This one felt personal. The haul was bigger than just the A-1. There was a Canon Top Twin point and shoot…
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Don’t Sell Your Camera to MPB or KEH
Let me do this in my best Thomas Heaton voice. This video is not sponsored by MPB. Because MPB and KEH are not the best place to sell your camera, especially around the holidays, when people will pay more for gear on eBay. Thirty, forty, sometimes fifty percent more. The trade-in places know you are…
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Quebec City Night Street Photography
I took the Fujifilm X-E2 to Quebec City for some night street photography. Quebec City is one of the most historic cities in North America, about as close as you can get to Europe without flying overseas. I deliberately brought the lower resolution X-E2. The poor low light performance is the point. I wanted the…
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Why I Snapped What I Snapped
I walked around Knoxville with the Fujifilm X-H2 and I want to walk you through why I took the shots I took. I bailed on a group photo walk with strangers, which makes you think, am I this weird? Probably. Moving on. Pedestrian bridges and catwalks are my muse. Geometry, shapes, framing. That is my…
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The Big Problem with the Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro | First World Problems
Let me address this head on. My number one video for a month has not been about photography. It has been about these earbuds. Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro. They sound great. They work wonderfully. They sit in the ears nicely. And the microphone in them is terrible, which matters if you record street photography…
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I Got Stranded on a Mountain
Twenty four hours ago I was on top of Jay Peak. I had not skied in thirty years. I thought, it is like riding a bike. It is not like riding a bike. I would not call it an adventure. I would call it hell. I could barely ski down the mountain. So I went…
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The One Mistake That Will Kill Your Dream Job
I have a perspective on dream jobs that most people giving career advice do not have. I have worked my dream job my entire career. I am Marc Anthony. I host the morning show on Star 102.1 in Knoxville. Thirty seven years in radio, twenty five in Knoxville, number one morning host, longest running morning…
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It Pays to Be Nice
I am addicted to thrift store cameras. If there is a camera at a thrift store, I am going to buy the damn thing. I go for two reasons: the cameras, and the SD cards with found photos on them. This trip’s haul: an Olympus VR-310, 14 megapixels, negotiated below seventeen ninety nine. A Nikon…
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Fujifilm Film Simulations vs Film Recipes
Time for a showdown. Built in film simulations versus custom film recipes, head to head, on the X-H2 and the X100VI. Same sensor, pretty sure the same processor. One camera gets the sim, the other gets the recipe. Some background. I have been in the Fuji ecosystem about ten years. Fujifilm knows what they are…
