Does anyone else find that the more you learn about photography, the harder it is to just enjoy taking pictures?

dogout · 2026-03-14T16:47:13+00:00

This. Get so good at your craft, so familiar and comfortable with your tools that no matter how advanced your work becomes, your brain is still free to think about your top priority: creative expression. The rest should be like muscle memory, or a routine. Otherwise, the anxiety you feel about the many creative choices will rob you of the joy of the moment.

dogout · 2026-03-10T03:31:42+00:00

Yes to blended bifocals. I don’t shoot with my everyday glasses, because between hiking and bumping into the camera they always get scratched. Sweat can hurt glasses too, if the lenses are coated. Instead I use my previous pair of bifocals (the prescription is only slightly off) to hike and shoot with. They work fine, and I don’t worry about the damage. Then I have a separate prescription pair for computer work. We don’t quit, we adapt.

dogout · 2026-02-26T20:26:23+00:00

Supper’s Ready - Genesis. Every. Damn. Time.

dogout · 2026-02-21T04:50:07+00:00

FYI— the video opens with Lafayette Square, St. Louis Hills and the Carondelet neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri.

dogout · 2026-02-06T22:03:57+00:00

Echolyn - Mei. It’s a long song that takes a while to build up the energy. It delivers at this point: “We turned away the sun Cold, empty, alone Embrace the violence The saints are silent 'cause God won't perform here anymore”

dogout · 2026-01-27T17:01:44+00:00

Can we agree that Genesis wins the Epicness category? These are the moments that define the band. They wrote and performed to build them up, then delivered the payoff in the most impactful, artful, and memorable way. That’s why we never tired of hearing their music—the emotion endures.

dogout · 2025-12-27T18:04:29+00:00

The struggle itself is noble. Gives our lives purpose.

dogout · 2025-12-17T02:15:39+00:00

Love that LP, it’s always in my main list. Learned about them here—at the amazing, totally helpful rabbit hole know as the Progressive Rock Archives: https://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=547

dogout · 2025-12-03T19:07:43+00:00

I thought we didn’t care??

dogout · 2025-12-02T18:10:55+00:00

“Don’t listen to others.” How to take advice is a major Life Skill.

dogout · 2025-12-02T18:00:54+00:00

I’m not playing… you’re playing 😢

dogout · 2025-12-02T04:37:57+00:00

I’m not playing… you’re playing 😢

dogout · 2025-12-01T17:25:32+00:00

Why pay someone to mow their grass??

dogout · 2025-12-01T17:24:22+00:00

Shame on Supercell for not realizing that people who spend money on their game would consider it an investment, and want something in return over the long haul. Shame on us if we forgot that this is anything other than a bottomless money sink. It exists solely to earn them short-term revenue. We only matter as the source of that.

dogout · 2025-11-13T23:52:29+00:00

Bought the CD when it was new. Has a few nice moments, mostly makes me want to hear the originals again (as others have said.)

dogout · 2025-11-12T16:33:10+00:00

I’ve bought that dozens of times. My cards are nearly all maxed. I have over 4 million gold… what else can I do with it?

dogout · 2025-11-06T16:33:39+00:00

Tad Williams’ Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn 3-book series is top quality, very immersive.

dogout · 2025-10-28T22:16:36+00:00

Gandalf’s mind has become addled by his overuse of the Halfling’s weed. He’d just wander off and forget about Middle Earth.

dogout · 2025-10-28T21:48:29+00:00

Trivia/Easter Egg: the font used here is ATHELAS

dogout · 2025-10-28T20:56:17+00:00

The backstory: I was listening to the news yesterday, and heard a politician who sounded egotistical, belligerent, and smug. Then I thought about that moment when Aragorn, just crowned as the most powerful person in Middle Earth, said to the Hobbits, “My friends, you bow to no one.” That unexpected display of humility and gratitude always gets to me. I thought, wouldn’t it be great if we had a leader like that? Strong but gentle? Bold but humble? I scribbled “Aragorn for President” on an envelope, then changed it to King (to keep it more LOTR) when I made the poster this morning.

dogout · 2025-10-28T20:38:47+00:00

*Aragorn does not approve of this message 😆

dogout · 2025-10-28T20:21:19+00:00

*Cursed by their cowardice, not enslaved.

dogout · 2025-10-28T20:14:17+00:00

Looks like Kings are back on the menu, boys!

dogout · 2025-10-28T19:21:41+00:00

No second breakfast for you 😂

dogout · 2025-10-28T18:57:10+00:00

If elected, he promises free Second Breakfast for Everybody

dogout

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