Episode 55 - Why photography is so important | Just Take the photo

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welcome back good morning good morning

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good afternoon wherever you find

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yourself in life it is now afternoon

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here is it in East Tennessee oh it is we

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have uh we have eclipsed the uh the noon

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the noon point of the

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day and it still feels good out here it

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does still feel good it feels great it's

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kind of my favorite time of the year uh

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this morning was a smidge chili oh it

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felt good mid 50s I believe mid-50s uh

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yeah it was 50 on the nose at my house

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oh so it was lower than that then dang

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on the nose so yeah it's like uh shorts

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and Hoodie weather I'm happy and I I'm

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also a big proponent of long sleeve teas

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MH uh if I can wear those and not sweat

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or on the inverse if I can wear this and

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not be cold M that's when I feel good

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some would say it's Sweater Weather I

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don't know there yet sweat weather it'll

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be here before we know it though it'll

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be

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here um speaking of SNL um Nate brigatti

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he has a great skit where he plays

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George Washington okay and I know we're

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talking about this off camera whether we

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measure our stacks of wood in cords okay

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or Ricks yeah and he's with his troops

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and they're asking him you know about

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the new measurements in in this new land

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now in America okay like but sir are we

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going to use meters no I wish it were so

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simple we're going to measure in miles

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oh okay yeah as well things like that uh

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go watch that skit if you not it's

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hilarious

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okay have not seen that skit but I have

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always

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questioned why the heck we did not keep

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the metric system well because this is

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America yeah that doesn't mean we got to

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be dumb we're not we're our own thing

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yeah uh well if you've ever worked on a

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car uh and you currently have a half

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inch socket and you're like I need one

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bigger what's bigger than 916 what's

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bigger than half but smaller than let's

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see smaller than 38 58 it would be 916

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easy you had a 12 in your hand you need

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a bigger one 13 you go to a 13 yeah but

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that wouldn't be America they would just

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no but it would cause us a whole lot

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less of uh heartache or even funner

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thing uh yesterday I was working on my

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Mower and the bolt head was 9/16 the nut

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on the other side for some reason was

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only a half I don't understand how that

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worked yeah don't get it don't get it

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but it did it did interesting yeah good

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old John Deere could have kept the

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metric system I'd have been happy with

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that I mean everything's easy it's in

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ones 100s and like thousands or

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something like it all goes by 10 all all

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factors super easy super easy I digress

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anyways uh so

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today we are still

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outside because we are currently

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displaced hopefully you enjoy this uh

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heck even when we're not displaced we

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might bring it on back out here I'm

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still wanting to get up into the

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playhouse I'm going to put my petition

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into the board and maybe we get a

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playhouse episode out some of this it's

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being it's it's it's being reviewed

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we'll see it's being reviewed by the

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board okay um we need a two3 vote for it

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to pass and there's only two of us on

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the board yeah maybe split on this

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decision anybody wants to come in and be

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the tie break you just let us know let

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us know yeah we'll put you on payroll

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for two minutes I really question if we

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can fit in it that's that's the biggest

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oh we can fit biggest concern we can fit

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uh but what we are going to talk about

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today is the importance of

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Photography and I'm not talking

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about paid photography or professional

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photography but just Photography in

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general period importance period of a

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talking about the importance of this

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photography thing that we love so dearly

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yeah so I'll start with a story yeah and

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and really there's there's so many

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stories that could be said specifically

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with what our our region just currently

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went through but I'll give you a a short

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one here there is an old or excuse me

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there was an old store

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MH uh down

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by a road that I used to pass every

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day uh the store I never actually saw

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the store as a working store but I

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always knew it as a store but it's just

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been this dilapidated building that's

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just slowly been uh decaying for years

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uh it was neglected and like all Barns

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and everything like that eventually it

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ends up being no more uh but last fall I

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took a photo of it uh with the leaves

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around it and all these things uh had no

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idea that within less than a year that

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building would literally no longer be

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here gone gone it's gone so out of here

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again I didn't take that photo to to

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like you know be the last photo of it or

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anything like that I took the photo

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because it was pleasing within the the

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Fall Foliage but right in

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hindsight it's it's it was it served as

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a reminder to me to take the photo yeah

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like there's tons of things that even if

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you're not a photographer you've

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probably driven by these places every

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day of your life and you're like I

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really need to stop and take a photo of

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that but a lot of times if we're too

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busy we're too busy we make excuses like

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h no I didn't leave early enough or I'm

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fixing to be late or or I don't have

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time to to pull over and take that photo

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we're way too busy as a society we are

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way too busy and had I been too busy

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which and I'm not like absolving myself

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of being too busy because there's tons

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of photos that I haven't taken because I

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have played the too busy card but that

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day I was not too busy played the or I

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actually took the photo and I now have a

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photo of a building that no longer

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exists do you think that you were the

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last person to photograph that building

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I probably was not uh I probably was not

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the last person to take a photo of that

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building I'm sure they took a photo of

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it before they the county ended up

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condemning it because it was falling

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apart and coming down into the road

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gotcha so they ended up tearing it down

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I'm sure there were photos taken then

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but yeah I can tell you I was probably

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one of the last photos of it in Fall

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because it didn't make it to this fall

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ouch so all that to say that could

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easily be that could easily be a family

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member yeah that could easily be a

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person um who was literally here today

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and gone tomorrow because they were

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falling into the road and are now

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condemned no

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um Life Is Life here is finite yeah it

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it is and again at one point we're all

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here and then at one point we're all

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gone yeah um so just the

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importance we call it photography I'm

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just even saying taking the photo like I

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don't care take it with yeah but the

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importance of taking that photo and its

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preservation yeah um well let's I want

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to dive into that building specifically

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because you said that you you knew it as

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an empty storefront yeah um but if if we

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go back even further than that there are

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people who remember it as a working

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operational store yeah my mom talked

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about stopping there as a store or like

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as a as a patron of the store but again

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it was always closed down it was never

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an operating store for my childhood

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right um but I just always knew that it

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was a store but so there's a story

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attached to it yeah first off um yeah

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there's a story for you there's a story

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for your mom there's a story for other

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patrons who were in it day in and day

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out I I think of all the people that

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came in and out of that store and the

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stories that they were telling because

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if we think about you know our region

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specifically we were very um agriculture

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oh yeah agricultural inan I agrarian

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there it is there's a word uh agrarian

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in nature if you think about all the

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farmers that were coming in after

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cutting debaca you know just take a

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break uh all the the farmers that had

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just got done doing hay like there's so

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many stories of different people coming

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in and out of that store oh yeah well

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and I mean again our region has just

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recently experienced a massive uh change

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in physical landscape as a result of

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Helen right bridges are literally not

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here anymore they're gone um Farmland is

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literally not here anymore and and so

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honestly I've got to work out the Kinks

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of it uh and maybe I shouldn't say this

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because it's it well no screw it I'm

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going to say it because it's going to

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hold myself accountable oh man I took

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some photos just going to send it I did

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not know I did not know what was coming

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with Helen right none of us did which is

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part of the problem like we we had no

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clue that a hurricane was uh you know

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negatively impact Us in this way but I

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was literally riding around the river uh

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Bailey Bridge Corby Bridge all those

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bridges that are physically no longer

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here anymore I was just beat bopping

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around in the mornings for about a week

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just finding light finding composition

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finding Farmland that I wanted to take

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photos of so I took photos of tons of

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Farmland yeah that I had no idea would

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no longer be there literally like less

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than a month ago I took these photos

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that now that landscape looks completely

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different so I'm trying to think of a

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way to to to put together some sort of a

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uh a a photo book or

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something uh and I would somehow like to

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get those photos to uh the property

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owners yes because again it's it's it

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looks nothing like the photo that I took

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be awesome so I got I got to figure out

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that that methodology that I'm going to

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use anyways I took photos literally a

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month before Helen came through and and

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ripped Farmland yeah uh from these

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Farmers I had no idea that a I didn't

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really exactly know where I was I'd

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never been in this area specifically in

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our in our neighboring County there but

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I'm near Washington County I was just

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finding light finding photos uh that I

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like that I thought were pleasing of

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farmland and lo and behold a month later

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Helen comes through and it is no longer

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there at all yeah but I have photos of

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it prior to you know what I'm saying so

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like it's just it's so important in my

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opinion to take that photo do you think

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it wouldve just as important to i if

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accessible and if permitted it would be

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just as important to show current

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landscape to show the vast difference

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yeah I've thought about stitching

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together like basically uh you know

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you've seen people hold up old Polaroids

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and stuff in front of the the the Las

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Vegas sign or whever it is right they

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recreate it I've thought about doing

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something along those lines and I may do

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something like that or I may just

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literally take like a before and an

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after type thing um but anyways I just I

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kind I think both sides of the equation

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are very important it is and uh I I'm

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also giving myself a personal mission to

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to take photos um basically I'm going to

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try to do I'm going to try and take a

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photo like at least once every month

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yeah cuz I'm kind of curious how

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Nature's going to bounce back mhm uh how

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long is it going to be before we start

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to see vegetation which we're fixing it

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come in the fall so we're not going to

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see we're not going to see trees come up

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uh this year but next spring we're going

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to see saplings I have a very a very

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Vivid shot that I'm going to try to

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attempt in my mind uh down here at Jones

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Bridge of all the trees laid down in the

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mud uh I want to do that do that on the

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roly FX okay uh in black and white just

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to see again how dramatic uh that scene

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is Right versus like a you know two

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years from now whatever um but I cross

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that bridge almost daily right now in

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our in our travel so I see that over out

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of my window and I I want to get the rly

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flakes out there and shoot that but

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going going back circling back around uh

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you think of the importance at the time

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you had no clue nope the importance of

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the images that you took pre Helen I

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think that happens a lot of times though

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yeah yeah we don't we don't understand

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the gravity sometimes of the photos that

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we take

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you the the goofy the goofy snapshot

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that you are so sick of being present in

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from your mom at Thanksgiving

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yeah I mean you I'm not trying to be

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morvid here on a on a on a Monday

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morning

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but I mean that may be the last time

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somebody in that photo's here yeah you

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know and you just don't know that you're

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you're just trying to capture the moment

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and that's what photography is but it's

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the importance of taking that photo and

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and it's just preserving that's what I

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want to really

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really just kind of hit on and and uh

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discuss today yeah well and and I think

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too and this kind of moves us into

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another idea I know I fall victim a lot

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of the times it's and it's because we're

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in the business and and you know for

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client work especially like we're held

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to a standard we're held to a degree of

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well if you're not using the right gear

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if you're not using you know your your

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professional equipment right you know

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you're not going to get paid basically I

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mean we're paid on the work that we do

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um and to a degree we have to use a a

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certain level of of tool to do that but

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I get caught up so many times and

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thankfully Sarah you know she calls me

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out on this whenever I go too far with

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it um I get caught up on I I don't take

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a certain photo because I'm too busy you

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know running off to get the camera yeah

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and sometimes that moment's gone right

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um so I I think for our audience

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especially um one thing to really sit

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back and and take a a objective look at

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is let's take a photo that may not be

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good yeah but is better because it

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exists yeah and still shoot that because

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that existing photo is better than the

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one that you missed because you were

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running inside and grabbed the camera

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yeah I mean and the instances that I've

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talked about the stories I talked about

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yeah I was running around with my

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professional camera as a professional

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photographer trying to get as

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professional of a photo as possible

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but that's not that's not the point of

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of of uh you know preserving a moment

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and yeah I I don't want someone to to

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miss on preserving a moment if all they

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have on them is an iPhone right take the

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photo take it take the take the photo

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because here's the thing the photo is

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not the photo is not the memory anyways

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right it's literally just a spark yeah

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it's it's literally just a reminder it's

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a medium it's a it's a u it is a is a

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frozen moment yep that six years from

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now you can look in your iPhone camera

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roll and you see that photo yeah yeah

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what that photo that specific photo is

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going to do is spark your memory yeah

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and you're going to relive that moment

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so no I do not think that it matters

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what it was shot on what it was shot on

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but the fact that it exists is what

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matters way more important way more gra

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gravity to that so yeah take the photo

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there there is a massive importance in

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my opinion to to

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take to to take I don't what you like

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taking photos of um just do it

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because not to be

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cliche but photography is literally

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freezing a moment in time yeah this

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specific moment with this specific light

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you'll never be this age again this

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light will never be a like it'll never

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happen the same way all the variables

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ever again yeah but you're freezing that

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moment and in some cases that could be

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taken last photo that is known of a of a

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of a family member yeah um that could be

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a pet pet um a structure you know some

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Landmark like it's just I don't know

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take photos yeah take photos it's it's

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so easy to store photos these days um

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like storage is cheap yeah so don't let

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that be a limitation it's cheap and in

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abundance yeah so especially if you have

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the iCloud they ask you to update the

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cloud on a monthly basis hey you want

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that 4 terab you want that 10 tab no I

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think I'm good it's only 99 C

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it's cheap take the photo yeah take all

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the photos take the photo do not care

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about um you know the lighting

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necessarily there are so many just

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photos like on trips or whatever uh

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everybody's like oh you're photographer

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where's the best I'm we just need to

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take the photo let take the picture

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let's just take the photo now I do care

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yeah I mean deep deep down it's a little

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bit of a soul Crusher whenever you don't

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have the the right line but but at the

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end of that do matter it's not it's

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yeah that's not the important part to me

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the important part is capturing that

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moment yeah so that

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someday me or my family or someone can

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stumble upon this image and it spark a

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memory yeah I think uh going going to

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the the not perfect uh conditions

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example whenever I first bought that uh

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that yika point and shoot that I have

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yeah the the thing was so unpredictable

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with like when it was going to fire the

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flash or what it was going to do with it

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shutter speed that like some of the

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images that came out of those first few

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rolles specifically when we were up in

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Michigan Shooting that wedding like it

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was it was fun just seeing the surprise

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of what it captured in that moment like

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I I remember vividly uh there was a shot

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that I i' handed the camera off to one

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of the groomsmen and just told him to go

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fire away yeah like he took this crazy

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picture of one of the other groomsmen

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dancing but like the flash fired and

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somehow it was still like a a slow

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shutter I don't know what happened but

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interesting but that image is crazy czy

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good like because of all those things

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that didn't line up but I can

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immediately go back to that image on the

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rooll like it doesn't have to be perfect

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no it doesn't have to be a good photo

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right it just has to be there and again

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going back to previous episodes what

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even is a good photo well yeah well so

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on that specific note I think back to

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like I'm thankful my parents took photos

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like when we were on family vacations

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stuff like that my mom wore the

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disposable cameras out would any of

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those photos be considered

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good by any measure of technical

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photography or by Vogue magazine

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probably not no but that's not the point

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screw Vogue I can look through those uh

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I can look through those photo

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albums which again I'm kicking myself

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because I don't print enough so I'm

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looking through printed medium here yeah

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uh but I can look through those and I

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can remember as a kid yes I do remember

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having those red swimming trunks at

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Myrtle Beach uh I do remember when we

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went to that restaurant and played putt

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putt because Logan got sick afterwards

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and like you but the phot he throw up on

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whole three the photo is what sparks all

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those memories and had that photo not

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existed for me to possibly look back

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upon yeah yeah I mean the memories are

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always they're still there but they're

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not being brought to the Forefront of

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your of your thought you know like

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you're not forced to to to relive them

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and that's what a photo does that's what

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a photo does also I got to back up real

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quick Vogue I'm sorry I did not mean

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that I will glad gladly come photograph

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in a studio session for you I'm sorry

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okay what did you say I said screw Vogue

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oh well I mean I wouldn't say that I

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mean there's there's certainly a place

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for good photography and you know

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professional photography but at the end

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of the

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day we're talking about today just just

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preservation yeah um and the importance

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presing the things that matter and again

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I think it's just kind of fresh because

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literally that that that stores right

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across the hill uh our our landscape has

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been vastly shifted we've gone through a

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lot within a week actually within a few

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hours it shifted and changed for forever

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um and it's just it's just something

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that I've it's made me think it's like

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gosh if you don't take the

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photo you've still got the memory but

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like it's harder memory can fade though

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I we're human our memories fail I'm 32

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now and my memory is God awful because

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of circumstances that have happened in

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my life yeah you've had wrecks but um

20:26

right but again like you're one wreck

20:28

away from not remembering anything

20:29

that's true you know that's fair I'm

20:32

living proof right here yeah um but yeah

20:34

you you've got to take those things and

20:36

pl them down and I I will say this um I

20:39

will say this there is also an

20:40

importance that I think holds equal

20:43

value of being present in those moments

20:46

too um and again this is just a reminder

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to myself like

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yes take the photo yeah but don't take

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away from the moment yeah to take the

20:57

photo right um be a part of of that

20:58

moment I guess is is what I'm trying to

21:00

say yeah I have I have slowly released

21:04

my grip on like specifically with family

21:07

moments and stuff of having to have uh a

21:10

professional photographer or

21:12

professional style photo captured yep

21:14

and I will use my iPhone a lot more

21:16

often now

21:18

um transparency the iPhone cameras are

21:21

great I was going to say you actually

21:22

have a couple of YouTube videos on how

21:24

to use your iPhone video they're great

21:26

uh maybe should throw those in the link

21:28

than cap I don't know if I'd go that

21:29

farquer somebody to that torture but um

21:33

Shameless plug here go look at his

21:35

iPhone videos they're they're more than

21:37

capable and again what you need is a a

21:41

frozen moment yep it's all you need so

21:43

that you can spark that memory when you

21:45

go back to look at it um

21:48

again that's exactly what all those old

21:50

family photos do for me uh when I go

21:52

back and look at them uh family field

21:55

trip or School field trips all those

21:57

things like just take

21:59

just take the photos don't care about or

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don't worry about it being good or great

22:04

or what a professional approve none of

22:06

that matters none of that matters it's

22:08

just the importance of of photographing

22:11

and freezing that moment that's

22:13

beautiful that's beautiful and and one

22:15

thing that I I think would be I'm going

22:17

to call it a healthy challenge for our

22:19

audience and I hope some of you guys

22:22

actually follow through on some of this

22:24

I would love to see um and you guys can

22:27

boot this to our email

22:29

to our Instagram whatever I would love

22:32

to see some of your favorite memories I

22:36

don't care what it was captured on

22:37

whether it be phone camera potato

22:39

whatever right but I want to see what

22:41

some of your favorite memories are I

22:42

think this could be a fun challenge for

22:44

audience if this episode uh has

22:47

resonated with you if if there are some

22:48

points in here that you're like yeah

22:50

that that makes sense I can I can

22:51

absolutely get on board with these ideas

22:53

I want to see those I'm I'm personally

22:55

curious because I know that you've

22:56

mentioned family trips I have my mom and

22:58

dad they have a a darn uh what do they

23:01

call it a a trunk oh yeah a trunk full

23:05

of Kmart sleeves y with with 4X sixes

23:08

yep uh I want to see some of your guys'

23:11

favorite memories yeah I don't care if

23:12

it took it yesterday or 20 years ago

23:14

flood our inbox yeah I want to see those

23:16

um also in the comments below I would

23:19

love to know why you think photography

23:23

is so important yeah whether you're a

23:25

professional or not yeah again

23:26

regardless I don't I don't care about

23:28

that but I want to know why you think

23:29

it's important uh to you to your life

23:32

maybe to your family's life I love

23:34

reading those stories yeah also on top

23:36

of that um if this episode has resonated

23:39

with you we would love to know in the

23:42

comments yep what you think about it um

23:45

give us some feedback stars and bars

23:47

those are things that we appreciate we

23:48

read those reviews we read the reviews

23:50

read the comments good and bad love them

23:52

all we need it as feedback some of them

23:54

are good some of them are bad that's

23:56

okay that helps us improve it does it

23:58

helps us absolutely and on that note

24:01

Jared here's the hard part

24:03

o uh well we'll see you guys in the next

24:06

one but only if you promise to go take

24:08

the photo hey didn't make that very hard

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we'll see you guys see y'all later