Category: Stories

I do not ask for much on this channel. I never ask you to like or subscribe. I never promote my other videos. But there is a disconnect I have noticed. The Shorts get watched. The long videos do not get a view to save my life, and that is mostly fine. Mostly. Because I…

Time for a rant. I love having a channel where I can rant. I am so tired of camera reviews where the headline concern is battery life. The GR IV adds what, fifty or sixty shots over the GR III, and this is treated like news. Here is the truth about battery life. If you…

People give me grief for noticing things. “You’re too observant. You notice too much.” I’ll take it. It makes me two things. It makes me a husband. And I like to think it makes me a photographer. Because noticing is the whole job. I noticed the woman with her coffee and the man at the…

Am I becoming the “I call BS” photo YouTuber? First it was the claim that 4.2 percent of photographers make over $300,000 a year. Now it is this headline. Canon sold more DSLRs in 2024 than Fujifilm sold cameras. Total. All of them. The numbers. Canon moved 790,000 DSLRs in 2024, down 14 percent from…

I have called myself the dumbest photo YouTuber on many occasions, and I have the footage to back it up. Dropping lenses during reviews. Unboxings where I can barely keep the camera in frame. Discovering features on cameras I have owned for years, live, on video. “Oh. I didn’t know it did that.” So allow…

When I was 16, I had nothing. No friends. Nobody to hang out with. The only friend I had was the camera around my neck and the 12 or 24 exposures on a roll of Kodak film, because I could not afford the full 36. I would stalk this place where people were having so…

Am I the only one calling BS on this article? Photographers making over $300,000 a year. Not one guy once. Four point two percent of them. Worldwide. There are super performers in every business. I believe that. I am a morning radio host, and if you asked people what I make, they would guess 40…

I say street photography is the intersection of light, color, and weirdos, and I mean weirdos as a term of endearment. A loving term. And if you want weirdos, you come to the beach. You come to the boardwalk. Ocean City, Maryland. My old stomping grounds. I grew up in Washington, DC, and this is…

In my last video I said, on the record, that I am not a run and gunner anymore. No drive-by street photography. Then I found snap focus. So today I am doing run and gun in my old stomping grounds of Arlington, Virginia, with the camera that is forcing me to learn the metric system.…

So, I am a bit of a smartass. The other day I made a video mocking a TikTok that taught me the rear lens cap and the body cap snap together for storage. Oh, what a revelation. Thanks, TikTok. Well. Karma just slapped me square in the mouth. Did you know the front lens cap…