Which photobook, inspires you?  Who is your favourite master photographer?  These are the questions we try to answer on this episode.

The big question, is it worth learning a different style of photography, even though you are not crazy about it, or will ever make images in that style.  Join Mac and Sid and our friend Dave Szweduik from digitalSoup podcast, as we discuss this topic.

In this episode with touch a little on the new Nikon Z series cameras, and our new segment on Featured Photographer is Duane Michals, his work on series of images and projects sparked the conversation on projects and if projects are important to us as photographers and should we attempt doing them.

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To say the least. We were happy to have long-time listener and friend to the show, Maryland photographer Mitch Stringer, on for a great chat about travel photography, which is a genre so many of us enjoy and do ourselves. We also touched on his sports, wildlife and other photography adventures. Please join us as we hear about Mitch’s extensive travels, his interesting stories and how he goes about living a photographic life.

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Huge thanks to Mitch for coming on the show and sharing your photography world with us. Make sure you check out his work!

Thanks so much as always for tuning in, friends! We always appreciate the support and the conversations!

Cheers, y’all!

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Late night cinematic musings after watching a great movie "Downton Abbey", and how it differs from the show in cinematic terms.  There seem to be a lack of good cinematography in movies these days. 

Can we call ourselves photographers if we are not constantly creating?  Am I being a fraud for say that I'm a photographer, yet I haven't created anything worthy of sharing?  These are some questions that we try to answer during this episode.

In this episode we are out to our favourite park, waiting for the sunrise and frolicking with bison.  As expected lots of photographers arrived, as it was a beautiful "breakfast" for the bison.  It's never boring photographing these big hairy cows.  Especially on a frosty morning.  

Given the question by our friend David Szweduik, from Adventures in Creativity,  is setting a camera for different colors and effects would be considered cheating.  Well unless the camera manufacturers figure out a way of actually replacing skies in camera, then.... ah just listen to the show and you will find out :)

In this episode we are out chasing light in our favourite boreal forest part.  We even found a pornographic bison taking a bath.  

As artists some of us have some kind of an agenda or vision we would like to share with the world.  The question is do we need one?  Does any one care if we have one or not.  This is what we are trying to discover in this episode.

In the creative pursuit of photograph, we often fall pray to advertising of the latest greatest equipment that apparently will make photography easier, better, and more enjoyable. We often forget that in reality the camera itself does not really matter in chasing the creative. This is what we talk about in this episode.

We were proposed an idea, the creativity is done, specially in photography. There are so many photos out there of the seemingly the same thing. Same locations, same subjects, everything blends into boring "I've seen this a million times". So the question is are we really creative. Well if we look at the definition of creative in a dictionary it states: "producing or using original and unusual ideas". One could say that no we are not creative anymore, because we see the same images all the time, but are they really the same? As we know in landscape photography we will never take the same photograph, because of the environmental factors. Similar yes, but not the same and one could argue that every photograph is original in it's creation. This gave us an idea for a conversation about creativity and are we really creative?

Today we are talking about styles.  Does having a style is detrimental to your growth in photography?  Or is it necessary branding for your photography? This is the question we try to answer in this episode.

With more and more photographers entering the business of photography, two complete amateurs try to navigate the business world of photography and how it can impact established photographers.

With this cold weather we are experiencing right now (-41C) it's always good to be prepared when shooting outside.  Whenever you are going for a shoot either outside or in a studio, you should have a checklist of things to take, but don't forget the mental preparation.  Also be prepared to be flexible enough to take advantage of changes in weather conditions, light, mood.  In this episode we talk about how to prepare yourself as a photographer.  

Another great idea from our friend David Szweduik, from Adventures in Creativity, was if we learned anything photographically this past year.  

To be perfectly honest, there was no eureka moments, but somethings like learning to shoot with 1 camera and 1 lens, or not to take a photo, when you know it will not turn out, thus saving you time in post processing.  Things like that.  

Have you learned anything during last year?  Share your stories with us.

Enjoy, and we will talk to you next week!

Since Christmas is getting closer with a great idea from our friend Dave Szweduik from Adventures in Photography, we thought it would be a good idea to talk about what we would love for Christmas.  This can be gear, places to go etc.  

We would also love to hear what is on your wishlist. So drop as a line, a comment a tweet.  Don't be shy. money and time is no object :)