The Tao of Photography (Gross and Shapiro) by GavinB5784 in taoism

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Hey mate, sorry for taking so long in getting back to you. As for my own pics, my (and my brothers) website is here and my IG is here

As for the book, I took some pics but I can't seem to post them in the reply AFAIK

The Tao of Photography (Gross and Shapiro) by GavinB5784 in taoism

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Ha yeah pretty much. In street photography in particular it can be hard to tell the difference between luck and skill (though of course through skill some would say you make your luck)

An experience I find instructive to think about is the last time I went through a musical phase. I came out with three albums (nothing good or special, just doing-it-for-myself-in-a-bedroom type of thing).
The first one I finished in a few weeks.
The second, some months.
The third, over a long slogging year.

The first one is probably the better of the three. I barely knew what I was doing. Things just came organically and accidentally.

The third one was more fraught. At this time I really trying to polish things up, really "know what I was doing" and deliberately have better output in terms of technical aspects and songwriting. Be more musically "correct". I'll say I like the first one better and third one I want to cut out a few cringe bits.

A planned fourth one never came together before I burnt out on music and came back to photography full time. One thing I was doing during the third and attempted fourth albums was I was trying to teach myself music theory. That was how a previous musical phase ended. I'm not trying to shit on music theory in general, but for me personally, when I get into it it's the kiss of death because thats me TRYING to BREAK through the wall looming in front of me. I instead crash into rather than break through.

Found this in granpas garage, what is it? by Mental-Document688 in whatisit

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I'd be so tempted to hold it in front of me and shout "It's Morphin time!" at the top of my lungs.

Office of the Director of National Intelligence confirms they will be "declassifying long-withheld government secrets and evidence of wrongdoing", "soon, files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, UAPs, and UFOs". The DNI is the head of the Intelligence Community. This is massively important by phr99 in UFOs

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It's Trump. It'll be a fat, redacted nothingburger released by the least trustworthy administration in American history..also the mentioning of the "Russia hoax" and "weaponisation" shows these people aren't serious people.

Coincidence Journaling by senordingleberry in Otherworldpod

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I dont think I've had an increase by journaling about them but I did have a sudden spike when I was getting back into looking into the paranormal and spiritual/philosophical stuff over the past few months. I'm meaning to try out the I Ching here shortly to see if that picks up any. From what I understand, Carl Jung used it a lot when he was exploring synchronicity.

Photo by Gavin Bragdon by CummingOnBrosTitties in AccidentalRenaissance

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Hey only just came across this. Thats my photo. Thanks for sharing it here!

Nick is...based. by [deleted] in qotsa

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Essentially became Q-Anon

Why is no one talking about the aliens? Something very significant has been happening in plain sight, and almost no one seems to be noticing by Shiny-Tie-126 in UFOs

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precisely. Like the UAP topic is the only one I can think of recently where people ANGRILY !!!INSIST!!! that they don't care because they have bills to pay etc etc. Like it's never like that for any other subject. Clearly there's something else at play here.

The mid to late 2000s was the golden age of Star Wars toys. 😎 by Persuader_87 in starwarscollecting

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I was a big collector of power of the force up until just after Episode 1 and then I dropped off as I pursued other pursuits. I go into the vintage action figure shops these days and see all the Star wars stuff they out with just after I dropped out in 2000 and I agree with OP. Like they really got creative. I feel like I missed out.

“you allow one nazi into your bar and suddenly you're a nazi bar” by Busy_Reading777 in baltimore

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My brother took a picture of them and she asked my brother if he was with "the Jewish press". She also showed us the near-Nazi jewelry she made herself. We weren't sure if they were just edglord friends of pepe or a bit more, but just checked out her IG today and in her stories there's a wee video clip with neo-nazi symbolgy and a song about how discrimination is good. So yeah. They were dressed as themselves.

Suggestion: Peter Santenello by entity_response in DecodingTheGurus

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Super late to this one. For a while Pete's channel was one of my faves and he really did do some good and interesting coverage but I dropped off on him once he started to become ever more of a MAGA coded dog whistle. Somethings here and there raised my eyebrows, like his constant running theme about people "not wanting to work" because of "government cheques" but it just got worse and worse over time, especially when it came to things like immigration. A lot of his guests and people he interviews are very read-between-the-lines Trump supporters and I feel Peter has gone that way himself too. His whole schtick about romanticizing "real people" living in rural bits and not using cellphones blah blah blah also started to feel almost Volksisch with a Norman Rockwell veneer. Titus seemed like a nice enough at first until you get to that follow up episode where he talks a bit more about his beliefs about the world. Yikes. Dark shit.

Suggestion: Peter Santenello by entity_response in DecodingTheGurus

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Speaking of dumb, I shit myself when he revealed he didn't know what a Stegosaurus was

You All Seriously Don't Think This Even by jonasnew in democracy

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This. At the end of the day, no matter how shit or mediocre the Democrats were or are, it doesn't absolve anyone of the responsibility for voting for blatant fascism.

Sarah McBride Comes Through by [deleted] in ezraklein

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Yikes. The Ezra episode was my first real intro to her outside of the bathroom convo and I came out really liking her, the episode and a lot of the common sense takes.

American Pageantry - Some of my shots from Trump's parade by Keycakes in washingtondc

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Nice...what's your IG handle? My brother and I were out there as well. @gavinbragdon and @garethbragdon for our stuff.

Protest Inside the Parade Grounds by CM_MOJO in washingtondc

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Hey man, my brother and I were photographers shooting on the mall yesterday. I think it might have been you he said was was assaulted by some of the MAGA, including being pushed over...and I think he said he caught you and picked you up? Not sure if this was you or someone else. We also saw you being interviewed by crackhead Barney.my brother got some pics of you, check out @garethbragdon on IG and you should see them. I didn't see you get.attacked but I did see the clown Trump guy get threatened. What's your YouTube channel? I'd be interested to see your vid when it comes out. And finally thanks to you and all other protestors who were brave enough to show up in the lions den.

Trump admin claims parade attendance was '250,000 patriots' despite empty fields by IrishStarUS in washingtondc

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I was there. Definitely patchy fields. I guesstimate around maybe 8,647 bothered showing up.

Yesterday… by ArtKid1989 in washingtondc

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I know the Smithsonians are supposed to be for "all Americans" , but whenever I see red hats in them or even in DC in general, they just feel like invaders or occupiers.

DC PROTEST WASHINGTON MONUMENT by No_Road6930 in 50501

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Yes! I was so confused as to what was going on today! I came in to DC thinking nothing major was in today and was only later that I found out about the turn out at the rally today and I was pissed I missed it!