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On Taking Pictures

Every week, Jeffery Saddoris and Bill Wadman take on the art, science, and philosophy of photography and explore how they play out behind the camera in the process of making images. Insider insights f... Read more

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270: The Luster Dulls Over Time

270: The Luster Dulls Over Time

This week, we’re talking about inherited meaning, specifically related to last week’s discussion around using tintype to... Read more

27 Jun 2017

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119: Glacial Evolution

119: Glacial Evolution

This week, for some people making lists and setting goals are the only way to feel like progress is being made. For othe... Read more

5 Aug 2014

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267: What’s Left For Humans To Do?

267: What’s Left For Humans To Do?

This week, what happens when machines learn enough to not only sort pictures, but make them? Is creativity just an algor... Read more

6 Jun 2017

1hr 41mins

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263: If There’s A Listicle About It It’s Too Late

263: If There’s A Listicle About It It’s Too Late

This week, we discuss the value of surrounding yourself with different types of creative people and how happy accidents ... Read more

9 May 2017

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65: Doing Nothing is the Enemy

65: Doing Nothing is the Enemy

This week, we talk reinvention. Sometimes you choose, while other times, the choice is made for you. Do you go willingly... Read more

23 Jul 2013

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64: Goldilocks Camera Phenomenon

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We lighten things up this week and talk about gear, specifically cameras and why what’s right for you may not be right f... Read more

16 Jul 2013

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43: Artistic Monkhood

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Safe vs Experimental, to get good you need to stop trying to get good, and Jeffery's monologue at 42:20 which is among t... Read more

19 Feb 2013

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313: No One Wants To Be In A Cover Band Forever

313: No One Wants To Be In A Cover Band Forever

This week, we’re circling back to an earlier discussion around style and whether you choose your style (and maybe even o... Read more

25 Apr 2018

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94: The Custodian Ideal

94: The Custodian Ideal

This week is a Q&A show where we take a bunch of listener questions and try to answer them without sounding like idi... Read more

11 Feb 2014

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285: The Composition Within the Chaos

285: The Composition Within the Chaos

This week, how do you approach a new project or body of work? Is the making more important than the potential juice? Or ... Read more

10 Oct 2017

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113: A Day Late & A Dollar Short

113: A Day Late & A Dollar Short

This week, we begin with a discussion about gear - specifically how newer crop-sensor cameras compare to full frame and ... Read more

25 Jun 2014

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95: Finding The New

95: Finding The New

This week, when is enough really enough? How do you know when it’s time to make subtle corrections versus charting an en... Read more

18 Feb 2014

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143: Set For Life

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This week, a conversation overheard on the train sparks a discussion around the need to create or not and whether we wou... Read more

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195: Everybody’s Eating Oreos for Breakfast

195: Everybody’s Eating Oreos for Breakfast

This week, is art just a shell game of semantics? Do the names and labels matter at all as long as you’re making mistake... Read more

19 Jan 2016

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42: That’s Just Going to the Driving Range

42: That’s Just Going to the Driving Range

Style vs Fashion and How do you develop a style anyway? The influence of luck, snow angels, and listener Q&A. Michae... Read more

12 Feb 2013

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294: The Tide Went Out On My Skillset

294: The Tide Went Out On My Skillset

This week, we’re talking about the question of “what comes next?” and how adapting your skills to something completely u... Read more

12 Dec 2017

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284: Time Is Your Only Currency

284: Time Is Your Only Currency

This week, have improvements to the gear side of photography affected the overall craft of making pictures? Or are we no... Read more

3 Oct 2017

1hr 35mins

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90: Uncharted Territory

90: Uncharted Territory

This week, we go further down the rabbit hole of Mentorship and discuss our most important mentors as well as what type ... Read more

14 Jan 2014

1hr 45mins

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216: Unintentionally Intentional

216: Unintentionally Intentional

This week, are 10,000 hours alone really enough to be great at anything? Maybe, but the real answer is likely more nuanc... Read more

14 Jun 2016

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49: Happiness is an Inside Job

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Things get a little heavy as Bill and Jeffery discuss the importance of dreams and what often keeps us from chasing them... Read more

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