Category: Stories
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Photography Is Dead and YouTube Is All We Have Left
This was my first video. Twenty thousand views. Let me tell you what I actually meant, because the title does a lot of work. It is not that cameras are gone. It is not that people stopped taking pictures. The industry of photography is dead. AI, shrinking jobs, fewer paths than ever. I have worked…
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You’re Using Snap Focus Wrong (Ricoh GR III Tip)
Full press snap sounds self-explanatory. It is. I am just old and stubborn, and I promised you would watch me learn this camera in real time. So here we are. The lesson that took me a few tries. Full press snap is not the same thing as snap focus, and the half press is the…
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The Thinner the Strap… The Happier the Neck 😏 | Camera Strap Confessions
The most exciting video in the history of this channel. Today we talk about straps. Somebody commented on my GR III video about the “pendulum of heartbreak,” the camera swinging on a lanyard just waiting to smack into something. Fair point. It never swings further than my hand, but fair point. So here is my…
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Kodak Lied to Us?! New Film After Shutdown Scare 🎞️🤯
I have been boondoggled. Cornswoggled. Lied to. Betrayed. A couple of weeks ago I stood right here and did a video about the death of Kodak. A 133 year old company telling the world it was pretty much done. I was emotional about it. Kodak meant that much to me. And now Kodak is producing…
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Ricoh GR III Snap Focus: Struggle Bus to Sharp Shots
One meter is 3.3 feet. Two meters is 6.6. Three and a half meters is a basketball goal laid down flat. That is how an American learns snap focus distances, because we never learned the metric system in this country and I refuse to start now. This Ricoh GR III is the most frustrating camera…
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Celebrities You Didn’t Know Were Also Significant Photographers.
I was today years old, whatever that means, when I found out Ken Griffey Jr. is a credentialed sideline sports photographer. NFL games. Major League Baseball. The Masters. The Ryder Cup. Did not know. Which sent me down the rabbit hole of famous people with serious second lives in photography. Kenny Rogers shot portraits of…
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I Love the Fujifilm X-Pro2… But Let’s Be Honest
You know you love a camera when you make the “is it still good in 2025” video and the “is it worth $1,000 used in 2025” video and neither one contains a single negative word. That was a love letter, not a review. So this is the diss track. Let me go to my notes,…
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Sitting On A Spot, Sitting On A Spottttt | Street Photography Fun
Street photography has advanced techniques. Chasing light. Layering. Fishing. And then there is this. You find a spot. A good spot. And you sit on it. And you sit. And you sit. And you let the world walk through your frame while you do absolutely nothing but wait, and occasionally miss a shot because you…
