Sam's Photo Newsletter - Jack Of This Trade
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Lessons in Pulling Over
⎯ ⎯ ❤️🔥👏10 I wonder if I’d be a better photographer, or at least a more prolific one, if I drove more. Earlier this month I set out to reacquaint myself with the world after being sick and inside for several days. It was one of those gloriously sunny winter days that feels like Mother Nature is trying to warm you up even though she just placed the heavy blanket of snow. So I went unnecessarily far for breakf…
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Abstract Winter
I enjoy winter, but it usually takes the first big snow for me to remember. In the weeks leading up to Daylight Saving Time specifically, I start to dread the dark, cold, and challenges of the season. This year I’ve been focused on finding winter joy if only because it seems wasteful to dread a quarter (or more...) of the year. A photography habit I’ve embraced this winter is trying to take abstr…
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One Foot In Front of the Other
To kick off my inaugural photography newsletter, I’m going to talk about running, of course. It’s taken me years to become a “good” runner (whatever that means). That journey is the basis for my personal maxim that “I have to be bad at something in order to be good at it.” All the miles I put in as a “bad” runner brought me to where I am now. I just had to keep putting one foot in front of the oth…
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opening soon
taking baby steps
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My first post
Taking more photos because that means I’m outside looking at things more. Sharing more photos because that means I’m connecting with people more.