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Sometimes, for no legitimate reason at all, I get the feeling that I’m a bad friend. I feel like I have absolutely nothing to offer the people in my life, and that whenever we’re together, I end up exclusively talking about myself—being the world’s biggest narcissist and critic. I don’t know about most folks, but…
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I walk on polished shores with leisure. There was a time when there were those who walked on them the same—ever before the word leisure was spoken. I am spoiled. My soft and uncalloused hands skip stones across these multitudes of swells. Moments like these are one of a million for me,One in a million for my…
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I have moved into the 21st century! For the first time, I’ve migrated my entire 15-year library of photos, music, and documents from a hunky spinning-disk hard drive to a palm-sized solid-state drive. Something mixed came over me last evening when I clicked the “Copy to” button on my computer and began the three-hour-long transfer. I opened…
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Buddhism is something that has, in the past couple of years, greatly interested me—not necessarily the Buddha himself or the origins of the religion, but the overall techniques that Buddhism employs. In the past two years, I’ve read three different books that don’t outright claim to be Buddhist, but that teach practices rooted in the religion: The Sedona Method, The Subtle…
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“I used to rule the worldSeas would rise when I gave the wordNow in the morning, I sleep aloneSweep the streets I used to own” I will always remember the first time I was introduced to Coldplay. 103.3fm was the PREMIER hits station back in the day – Yeah, I KNOW most of the people…
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I asked this couple of I could shoot them because they just oozed coolness. Being young and in love is a crazy drug. Sometimes people make being beautiful look effortless. -Love Wyatt
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My wife and I live in an 1800s home split into four separate apartment units. There’s a woman who lives above us who rearranges her living room daily, a guy in the adjacent unit who walks his cat on a leash and picks him up anytime someone comes within ten feet of it, and a…
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Last night, I slept on the hardwood floor in our living room. The past three days in midwest Michigan have been 90+ degrees during the day and 80+ at night, and our apartment—built in 1890—has no central air, just a single small AC unit wedged into the main room window. I laid out a sleeping…
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I went on a bachelor party this past weekend to an electricity-free, isolated cabin on the river. I didn’t bring a modern digital camera, but I did bring two different instant cameras! IT WAS BRIGHT! Instax film is native 800 ISO, so it’s pretty sensitive. I’m shooting on a “Polaroid 300,” which is basically a…
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Did a little casual street shooting and architecture! My biggest issue right now is capturing faces. I do a lot of shooting where peoples expressions are obscured or you can’t see their faces at all. The other day we were out near sunset and it was prime time for black and white photos downtown. This…
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I attended two different birthday parties this last weekend on the same Saturday. One was a 4-year-old’s birthday party, and the other was a 30th birthday party. One was themed as a “Car Wash” party, complete with a blow-up car wash that sprayed water and bubbles everywhere. The other was themed “Death to My 20s,”…
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I shoot almost every other day, but sometimes I don’t get around to combing through and posting daily—so these are just some of my favorites from the past 14 days! Spent some time down home for a graduation and birthday party. My brother, featured on the 4-wheeler, is a gearhead and chain smoker, so I…
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I’ve been apprehensive to write for a couple of weeks, as I think I just ran out of things to say that I thought would be interesting. Most of my posts consist of talking introspectively, but sometimes you stop thinking so deeply all the time. I noticed a lot of the time I would start…
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Started the walk yesterday with some architechture shooting. I really love getting clean lines with the corners of buildings and the like. Also splashes of color in more muted areas. Moved into a little street shooting. Guy in B&W handed my a “Bridge to Christ” pamphlet featuring our great Mackinac Bridge. It was really overcast…
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I effectively have a camera on me of some sort at all times these days. These are just some pictures from the weekend whether walking around, or hanging out with friends. I went for a walk downtown early Sunday morning. There really wasn’t enough light for exceptional color photos so I played around with B&W.…
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24 days with no mobile smart devices. The process hasn’t been perfect, but I feel okay about it. If I’m being totally honest, I’ve started replacing a lot of the time I used to spend scrolling with watching TV. What’s really the value of swapping one habit for another? Probably none. I will say, though, TV…
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This camera has been collecting dust at my parents house for the better part of 20 years. I’m sure it was one of the earliest digital cameras they owned. This bad boy is PACKED with megapixels. 2.2 of them. That, along side a 38mm equivalent lens, and f4.5 maximum aperture. There are two shooting modes:…
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I can personally say there have been so many times in my life when I’ve expressed the type of person I think I am—like I’m on some kind of pedestal—only to turn around and prove through my actions that I am, in fact, not that type of person. I think I’ve boiled this down to emotional control. I can say that…
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Ever looked at yourself and said, “Hey, I think something is wrong with me,” and then just decided to continue not doing anything about it?Hello, this is me on the reg. I am a severe procrastinator. I have been all my life. It’s weird how I’ve recognized this fact since high school, but I’ve never…
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In this house – we don’t waste good light. My wife is quite tired of being my favorite subject… but when she said “I do” she opted out of the choice mostly. Instant film in particular *demands* a lot of light. Even 2 of my Instax at ISO 800 came out darker than preferred. She’s…
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I’ve rewritten this post several times. I wanted to come into this with some grand observation or an end-all-be-all life lesson. The truth is, seven days isn’t enough time to come to a conclusion on anything. Some hard truths I’ve had to accept: I’m certainly no saint—I spent several hours online on Sunday from my…
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I spent a long weekend walking about and shooting. Lots of people out enjoying the sunshine! I’m doing a smartphone detox at the moment and also don’t have my iPad, so a lot of these images are straight out of camera/ unedited. It was a rad weekend to practice my street photography! Tons of people…
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Yesterday was a mixed bag. It was my first full, morning-to-night day with my dumb phone. I don’t know why, but most of the day at work, I had a steady anxiety coursing through me. Perhaps removing my phone is akin to yanking the baby blanket from your hands. I woke up to my alarm…
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I am a slave to my iPhone. I spend the last hours of my day on it and the very first waking minutes on it. I check it 100+ times a day. I use my phone to satisfy every single whim or fancy that crosses my mind.“I wonder what that costs on Amazon?”“I wonder what…
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I’ve recently found a lot of appeal in a genre of shooting that traditionally requires taking pictures of people in public. Not in a pervy, upskirt kind of way, but more like capturing them in a moment—a moment where they interact with someone, look particularly fashionable, flash a brief smile, or give way to exhaustion—whatever.…
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Polaroid photography, for me, has been a freeing experience. As far as the professional and hobby realms are concerned, photography is an insanely saturated space. Everyone and their mother has the capability to shoot high-quality, well-exposed, sharp photos right from their pocket. As an enthusiast—and someone who has spent a decent amount of money on…
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I can no longer concentrate. Twenty-nine was the year I admitted to myself that I have a serious issue maintaining focus on single tasks for any substantial period of time. I turn 30 this March and I recently have dedicated some serious thought on how to turn this around. Not only does this lack of…
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