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On Taking Pictures — 379 episodes
379: Artifacts Of Time And Place
378: X-Wing not the X-1
377: Touching The Backstop
376: Shrink-wrapped In Anxiety
375: Don’t Get Sucked Into The Battle
374: Iterating on Noise
373: Uncertainty Within An Envelope
372: Mental Proprioception
371: Moon Joy
370: Detritus of Life
369: Digital Entitlement
368: Everything Has Limits
367: Offended By Extension
366: A Big Fluffy Thing
365: It Feels Different
364: I Don’t Think It’s Gonna Work
363: Not In My Vocabulary
362: Motion Is The Hapiness
361: Didn't Have Enough Power
360: Toiled Away In Quiet Desperation
359: Consistency is Hard
358: Inverse of Social Media
357: Knife Burrito
356: Archaeological Remnants
355: A World of Noise
354: Effort as Currency
353: We Need Another You
352: There's Always Value In The Effort
351 : Don’t Cater To The Camera
350 : Creative Closure
349 : Save The Clocktower
348: We Turn Over The Soil
347: Untied String
346: Chase the Creative Dragon
345: I’m Beholden to No One
344: I See What You Mean
343: The Difference Is What Makes It Yours
342: It's Not The Photography
341: Overcoming The Initial Inertia
340: Hope Marketing Doesn’t Work
339: Just Jump Into The Water
338: Is The LED Still Lit?
337: My Whole Life Is A Year of Sabbatical
336: There Has To Be A Mythology
335: The Lesson In This Season of My Life
334: Nature of the MrBeast
333: Answering The Call
332: You Did That Wrong, Make It Right
331: I Was On A Sofa
330: Losing Your Bearings
329: Interpretation At Every Step
328: Between the Accolades
327: Going Back To Move Forward
326: Special Episode - Apple Announcement Oct 2018
325: Closing The Loop
324: Another Stick in the Spokes
323: There’s No Control Group in Life
322: Waiting For The Supersaturation Point
321: And There It Hangs
320: Put This Robe On And Come With Me
319: Who Buys The Ink?
318: You Have To Go Further Back To Go Forward
317: You’re Gonna Need A Bigger SIM
316: Nice Sallah There
315: A New Branch On The Tree
314: It’s Either Silence Or A Heart
313: No One Wants To Be In A Cover Band Forever
312: I’m Put Off By Such Comfort
311: Poseidon Giveth and Poseidon Taketh Away
310: Let Me Just Finish This Donut
309: Giant Bags of Stuff in the Car
308: Sixth Gen VHS Tape from a Prog Rock Convention
307: We’re All in the Optometrist's Office
306: The Venn Diagram of You and Me
305: I Really Like The Deep Dives, Ted
304: No Filters Named After Places
303: Who The Hell Goes To Picasso’s House?
302: The Audience Holds You Accountable
301: It’s Like Amway With A Camera
300: When The Spirit Moves Me
299: Another Word For Failure
298: Jeffery Drifting
297: Dog On A Motorcycle
296: Christmas Q&A 2017
295: This Is Where I Was Right Here
294: The Tide Went Out On My Skillset
293: Trying To Hug A Cloud
292: When You Cry Authenticity Wolf
291: It’s All About The Torque
290: That’s The Recipe For Me
289: Brother Love Tut
288: An Iterative Process Like Everything Else
287: If It Sounds Good Now, It’ll Sound Good Later
286: You Don’t Need To Make New Friends
285: The Composition Within the Chaos
284: Time Is Your Only Currency
283: Somewhere To Get A Cleat In
282: All Of This Shenanigans Over A Camera
281: Hidden Under Hair and Self-Doubt
280: Tacking Left And Right Into The Wind
279: Letting It Go For A Better Offer
278: One and A Quarter Step Forward
277: We Both Work Great In Planned Chaos
276: Gas Money and a New Alternator
275: The Good, Fast, and Cheap of Photography
274: The Unatographer
273: Kenneth Is Funded With Advice
272: If I Stand Still, That’s When the Cobwebs Grow
271: Hanging Out With The Other Kids Drinking Cristal
270: The Luster Dulls Over Time
269: Breadcrumbs To Find Your Way Home
268: The Similarities Are Too Similar
267: What’s Left For Humans To Do?
266: Dance Monkey, Dance
265: Neuronic Connections
264: Advice Needs To Be Calibrated
263: If There’s A Listicle About It It’s Too Late
262: No Whips Were Harmed In The Making of These Photographs
261: Healing Salve On The Open Wound Of Doubt
260: A Friendship Built On Skype
259: Chasing Expertise, and Amy
258: The Hottest Bell Pepper I’ve Ever Seen
257: Turn the Hat Around
256: Mash Potatoes In the Shape of the Hollywood Bowl
255: If It Says VIP, It’s Not VIP
254: Bob Ross on Mute
253: Imagineers Are Never Gonna Do South Park
252: That’s Not What Cameras And Books Were Made For
251: I’m Just Gonna Shut Up And Sit Here
250: Like the Whos in Whoville
249: Ancillary Collaboration
248: Albatross Is On The Move
247: Keep the Nihilist in the Closet
246: If I Start This, Then I’ll Have To Finish It
245: A Higher Form of Noise
244: That’s the Arrow That Got Through
243: Can You Make the Logo Bigger?
242: Lack of Stasis
241: The Final Ten Percent Takes Ninety Percent of the Time
240: The Reins Are Fear
239: True to the Show
238: There Will Always Be A Minority Report
237: The Flow of the Slinky
236: The Next Switchback on the Plateau
235: Layering It Up Like a Cake
234: Measure Twice, Cut Once
233: Live Up To An Impossibility
232: Solid Steel Walls of Reality
231: I Look Forward to Looking Back
230: Full-On Artistic Telephone
229: Almost to the Shipping Point of Shipping
228: The Giant Pachinko Game in the Sky
227: Psychologize That Up The Wazoo
226: You Want The Pixie Dust
225: The Megapixel List of Life
224: Blink Decision
223: Driving Backwards is a Bad Idea
222: Form of Stupidity, Shape of an Idiot
221: All the Salt in the World
220: They Want Paul Bunyan
219: Bell Curve of Adoption
218: Moon Rocks Down Here Cost a Lot of Money
217: A Plus B Equals Jello
216: Unintentionally Intentional
215: Don’t Trust Experts
214: The Oxygen and the Spark
213: You’re Not About the Craft If You Use Laser Triggers
212: Audience Inflation
211: I Do Wanna Be A Person Eating Pancakes!
210: I’m Over Here in Sharpshooter’s Corner
209: Oddly Fascinating
208: Echoes of Memories
207: Emojis Don’t Count
206: It’s Hard to Juggle Slowly
205: Somebody Has To Be A Dictator
204: Dog Paddle Motion in the Air
203: Shrimp et tu, Brute?
202: Jeffery and Bill Meet the Swamp Monster
201: No Such Thing as Never or Always
200: Learn To Do It Without the Crutch
199: Claustrophobia In All the Control
198: Ghost of Familiarity
197: House Elf of Genius
196: Mind-field of Obstacles
195: Everybody’s Eating Oreos for Breakfast
194: Asking for Real Estate
193: Not Starting From Zero
192: Find Another Cliff
191: Gardiner Used All the Saturation
190: One Big Bundle of Bias
189: An Analytical Gamble
188: A Facsimile of a Facsimile
187: A Cultivated Fantasy
186: Little Blips of Satisfaction
185: What Keeps You Falling Back Into It?
184: A Somewhat Liberal Political Predilection
183: We’re Playing It Blue Today
182: Trading on the Hype
181: You’re Gonna Get Paid, Son
180: Holding a Leica, In Her Underwear
179: The Timeline of that Osmosis
178: Circles for Sixty Years
177: The Reflection Isn't Perfecto
176: Creativity is a Line Item
175: Very Little Time For the Present
174: A Reality Distortion Field of Pixels
173: Where Do You Put the Chisel?
172: Creative Fiefdoms
171: Big Subterranean Factor
170: We All Want To Be Steve McCurry
169: I’ll Make a Burger for the Next Guy
168: This Is Not How We Play Bridge
167: The Activity of Non-Activity
166: Less Bill & Ted’s, More British
165: Our Piece of Cheese Keeps Getting Smaller
164: Photographic Baseball Cards
163: A Generational Byproduct
162: I Grow Chickens, The Chickens Lay the Eggs
161: It’s Not Patrons, It’s Patronizing
160: Each Generation Forgets
159: It’s a Crowded Place, My Head
158: The Mayor of Fujitown
157: The Cossacks of Organization
156: The Great Men Theory of Art
155: It’s All a Barometer
154: 500k Followers or 100 Followers
153: The Community Is Getting Inside My Head
152: The Stone is Noise
151: Perfectly Punctuated Piece On Absolutely Nothing
150: Who’s Pressing the Brakes
149: It’s a Little Bit of a Ghost
148: Idle Hands Problem
147: Artistic Post-It Note
146: Pattern Recognition Machine
145: Priceless Gets A Price
144: Ronin Photographers
143: Set For Life
142: Time Capsule Effect
141: Frayved Peegan
140: An Official Knock-off
139: Nothing But A Mirror
138: A Little Obsessive That Way
137: Good is a Moving Target
136: Destiny or Resignation
135: No Touchdowns In Photography
134: A Couple Dozen Eye Rolls
133: No Way Out But Through
132: Some Kind Of Sublimation
131: Fuddy Duddy Hall of Fame
130: So Many Topics, So Little Time
129: Shake Some Streusel For Your Homie
128: A Baked Aesthetic
127: The Rabbit Always Moves
126: Flying Trapeze
125: Creative Swagger
124: Just Another Point on the Curve
123: The Weegee of the Modern World Doesn’t Exist
122: Disrupting the Familiar
121: Not Enough Room For Romance
120: You’re Not Moving Cannonballs
119: Glacial Evolution
118: Savings Bond of Memories
117: Reset The Mechanism
116: Freefalling
115: Doing It For Love Not Money
114: Creativity On A Wire
113: A Day Late & A Dollar Short
112: You Wanted A Do-Over
111: Desert Island Book Choices
110: The ‘Why’ is Much More Interesting
109: Cause and Effect Issue
108: Capital “P” Picasso
107: Backwards To Go Forwards
106: The Story Is In The Risk
105: More of the Crazy Juice
104: Happy Doing What You’re Doing Right Now
103: A Lifetime of Rehearsal
102: Rigging the Roulette Wheel
101: Cookie Cutter Wisdom
100: Discovering Something New
99: Authenticity Complex
98: Signal to Noise
97: The Best Version Of Me
96: Pencil Marks
95: Finding The New
94: The Custodian Ideal
93: Listen to Yourself
92: The Analogy of the Sphere
91: Isn’t That The Fun Of It?
90: Uncharted Territory
89: 42 Puppies and a Snow Cone Machine
88: Didn’t You Hear My Inner Monologue?
87: I’m Wearing Tap Shoes?
86: Sing Me What You’re Going To Play
85: Good Art Doesn’t Have a Shelf Life
84: Your Definition of Yourself
83: It’s Not A Pendulum, It’s A Kaleidoscope
82: Going ‘All In’ On Yourself
81: An Artistic Vacation
80: It’s Something To Take Seriously
79: Photography Without A Net
78: Shutter Priority on Glass Plate
77: Knowing Which Mistakes To Keep
76: Slamming Up Against the Walls (Like in an A-Ha Video)
75: Film comes in a can. Like soup.
74: Self-Deluding Defense Mechanism
73: It's Not All Warm and Fuzzy
72: Get Behind the Train and Push
71: Disruption
70: The Gaia Argument
69: Play With Your Deckled Edges
68: An Incorrect Perspective
67: Far Enough Along Your Curve
66: You Don’t Want To See Me When I’m Bored
65: Doing Nothing is the Enemy
64: Goldilocks Camera Phenomenon
63: The Core of the Struggle
62: Artists Aren’t Plumbers
61: Happenstance Threw It Over The Line
60: The Problem is Always Me
59: Food Doesn’t Talk Back
58: Art is Exposure
57: A Big Pool of Hustle
56: Then It Becomes RoboCop
55: When Life Gives You Lemmings
54: Where’s Joseph Campbell When You Need Him?
53: Dig Down To Make More Room
52: Backfill Reasoning
51: No Secret Sauce
50: Tortured Plateau
49: Happiness is an Inside Job
48: $500 and a Lollipop
47: Inspiration Is Like Tinkerbell
46: 151 Lights and a News Desk
45: True North On Your Creative Compass
44: Sensor Verite
43: Artistic Monkhood
42: That’s Just Going to the Driving Range
41: Our Microscopes Got More Powerful
40: I’m Buying a Smoke Machine
39: The President and an Umbrella
38: Tug of War with the Muse
37: Jump in the River
36: The Schrodinger Moment
35: Justification After the Fact
34: Learning Everything All the Time
33: Troubleshooting in Real Time
32: Screw Those People
31: Too Much Information
30: Entrances Confused with Dead Ends
29: Richard Scarry Book on Acid
28: Ability to Recognize...Maybe
27: A Body of Work Only in Hindsight
26: Brain Calibration Issue
25: The Weather Is What You're Photographing
23: Everyone’s Job to be Everything
22: Ann Curry is a Better Photographer than You
21: Vanity Fairy
20: Moment Much Bigger than that Photograph
18: Fifty Dollars and an Ice Cream Cone
17: Still Lifes of People
16: Portraiture is a Dance
15: Salting the Steak
14: Creativity Comes From Doing
13: Hand Gestures & Credit Cards
12: Kaleidoscopic Changes
11: Workflow: From Camera to Paper
10: Feels Like a Sunday
9: Making the Cut
8: The Amateur Professional
7: Creepy Kids at Retina Resolution
5: Apple Software Exodus
4: Printing Objects
3: The Future of Film
2: 3.6 Million Dollar Photograph
1: Falling Bears
19: Bare with a Snoot
24: Negative Space of Technique
6: Inspiration & Criticism