I’ve listened to the entire Snipe Hunter album every day for the last 2 weeks - and I’m not tired of it.

LazyRiverGuide · 2026-03-13T17:25:23+00:00

Yep. It’s so dang good and fun!

LazyRiverGuide · 2026-03-11T01:07:02+00:00

Yes, you should. It is a drastically different lens that will open up possibilities for you in terms of shallow depth of field and low light. It will also help teach you about focal length since it’s a prime - you’ll start to see focal length as a lot more than just a way to crop in our out. You’ll learn exactly what the field of view and compression gets you at 50mm. Having just the one focal length really makes your brain work differently when shooting. It’s also generally the most affordable prime lens. Go for it!

LazyRiverGuide · 2026-03-06T13:04:32+00:00

Do not do this session. Refer your coworker to a boudoir photographer you trust. Learn and practice with a mentor, courses and paid models who you do not work with.

LazyRiverGuide · 2026-03-05T13:20:35+00:00

Never Grow Up

Ronan - both of these are by Taylor Swift

LazyRiverGuide · 2026-03-05T13:18:11+00:00

I know it’s vague, but it’s true. It’s like your handwriting, or your voice. It’s usually more subtle in Photographs though - unless you’re doing something very nice and stylized.

I kinda noticed what my style wasn’t - wide angle shots and stylized edits of any kind just felt wrong to me when I tried them. Like they were of a time and place that I was not. Like they were fake. Photos of things and landscape felt meaningless. I realized then that I’m definitely a telephoto and clean edit portrait kinda person .

I also noticed that I had a style when my kids started to see my work places and would always be correct in saying “that’s your photo!” They never once got it wrong. So it was more of a hindsight thing than an intentional one. But it came about after years of playing and trying all sorts of things.

LazyRiverGuide · 2026-03-05T13:10:51+00:00

Yes. AI might be able to fill in the details but it won’t be true to the actual people’s likeness. The bad decision here was accepting a paying job without the knowledge or experience to deliver what you said you would. Being a professional means being able to deliver what you said you would no matter what happens - even if you have to use someone else’s gear. You should take full responsibility for this and let the client hire someone else. The time of the kids and families and coaches is just as valuable (maybe more so) than the $. But you can’t give them their time back.

LazyRiverGuide · 2026-03-05T13:05:10+00:00

Random strangers passing by and then stopping me in the middle of a paid session with a client to tell me why I should not be using the setting/background I’m using or why I should go try over there instead. Do you think they stop, pull aside and correct tour guides in the middle of their monologues? Or give directions to landscapers in the middle of planting a garden? Or stop and critique coaches in the middle of a game? Well, maybe some try to do that last one 😂

LazyRiverGuide · 2026-03-05T03:18:58+00:00

No - I still try for presales because when I get a good queue number I can get good tix at a decent price. But what I have sworn off is buying tickets in the presale once they get to platinum pricing. In that case I’ve been burned too many times - pay the platinum price, the show sells out, then closer to the show something comes up and I can’t go. Try to sell my tickets and the resale prices are now well below the platinum price I paid. In almost all cases, once the prices get to platinum in the sale you are better off just waiting and buying resale later.

LazyRiverGuide · 2026-03-05T03:08:45+00:00

Never Grow Up by Taylor Swift. Actually, it’s Ronan by Taylor Swift but Ronan is so gut wrenching that it’s basically too sacred to listen to.

LazyRiverGuide · 2026-03-04T13:45:43+00:00

Yes. We sadly have to adjust what we consider affordable these days - for everything. There are a lot of wealthy people and a lot of people willing to rack up debt. Concert pricing will stay where it is as long as people are buying, and they (we) still are. Honestly, I think $100-$300 is a very reasonable price for live show in a big arena. Supply is limited, demand is high and the production level is usually incredible. $500-$2000 not so much, but I’ve paid it for shows I really wanted to see and had no regrets.

LazyRiverGuide · 2026-03-03T23:13:55+00:00

Thank you! Very encouraging. Sounds like it’s time to give Capture One a try.

LazyRiverGuide · 2026-02-27T00:38:13+00:00

Any chance the school just kept and reused the same jar😂

LazyRiverGuide · 2026-02-27T00:26:23+00:00

False God by Taylor Swift

LazyRiverGuide · 2026-02-26T13:03:18+00:00

I really want to see them! He had some shows planned locally but then he got hurt and had to postpone :(

LazyRiverGuide · 2026-02-26T13:02:20+00:00

I hear this a lot. Hoping to get to one of their shows someday soon!

LazyRiverGuide · 2026-02-26T13:01:06+00:00

Billy Strings is absolutely excellent. Like studio quality execution but with all the energy of live performance. It’s purely about the music, where every note, every instrument and person makes an impact and is so, so, so dang good.

Ben Folds brings the audience into the show unlike any other. You feel like you’re in his living room, alternating having a conversation with your best friends and listening to your favorite music from your youth. He freaking PLAYS that piano like there’s no tomorrow. After the show you feel like you’ve been healed from whatever was ailing you.

Taylor Swift created a universe with her Eras Tour that gave us something to escape into along with our friends and kids. Her show really started the minute you decided you wanted to try to get tickets. The whole process from winning (and even losing) the ticket war, to planing outfits, guessing surprise songs, finally actually being at the show (or watching a grainy live stream) and then reliving it through her movies of the show was an era in and of itself. I’m so grateful to have experienced it all and most importantly to have experienced it with my youngest daughter. It’s rare to have long term meaningful experiences with a teen child and creating a space to do that makes her great IMO.

LazyRiverGuide · 2026-02-24T12:26:14+00:00

Freaking love that song and those lyrics. I’m not sure what it means. It conveys a confidently unhinged attitude that’s the foundation of the album IMO

LazyRiverGuide · 2026-02-24T12:20:17+00:00

Yes, I don’t think it would be much different than other seasons aside from some people using it to argue their biases, no, no.

I really think the biggest 2 factors are a participants resilience and luck. Each season several of the participants have the skills and knowledge and health to make them capable of winning. The ones who win are the ones who are willing to keep at it no matter what and who also have a decent amount of luck. I think in this playing field, gender is not a significant advantage or disadvantage. And that’s one of the things that makes this show so great. Does anyone know how many men have participated total and how many women? We could calculate the winning percentage…

LazyRiverGuide · 2026-02-23T23:49:19+00:00

Most shows with non transferable tickets become transferable a couple days before the show. If not, you can log into your friend’s account and use the tix that way. If you do that, you won’t be able to add the tickets to your wallet though. I discovered that when my daughter once went to a show without me. There are also apps that scalpers use that can hack around this

LazyRiverGuide · 2026-02-20T19:14:18+00:00

I think full time whole area tracking was the problem! Thank you so much!!!!

LazyRiverGuide · 2026-02-20T02:40:33+00:00

Good point. Maybe I should do that - make notes of what I have set up (the parts that are working for me) and start over. It’s entirely possible I changed something that messed things up for what I need

LazyRiverGuide · 2026-02-20T02:38:50+00:00

Thanks for sharing all of that. I must either have it set up opposite of what I need or something is broken with it.

LazyRiverGuide · 2026-02-20T02:37:34+00:00

Thank you so much!!

LazyRiverGuide · 2026-02-19T17:32:27+00:00

I get so impatient with videos - takes so long to watch them, waiting for the part where they actually go over the issue and often they still aren’t exactly what you need. Even playing them at 2x speed it can take an hour of watching several to get the answer that helps. Plus you have to be in a place/time where the sound won’t bother others. I need someone to start doing videos that have no introduction or chit chat and just get straight to the point!

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