F-Stop Collaborate and Listen

Welcome to episode 246 of F-Stop Collaborate and Listen with your host Matt Payne. This week on the podcast I was joined by Kurt Budliger - a full-time professional photographer from Vermont. I've had the pleasure of knowing Kurt for several years and have always admired his photography, positive attitude, and work ethic. Kurt and I had a fantastic chat on the podcast this week discussing his journey, how he balances full-time landscape photography with family life, and how his experience as an outdoor environmental educator has impacted his career in photography. On this week's episode we discuss: Kurt's journey into photography coming from the world of outdoor environmental education and a middle school teacher, Knowing about the landscape and how it enhances our photographs, Balancing work and family as a full-time landscape photographer, Kurt's love affair with trees, Staying creative in a world of iconic images and homogeneity, And a lot more! Over on Patreon this week, Kurt and I discuss why it is important to go outside of our comfort zones and what that looks like.   Here's who Kurt recommended for the podcast this week: Joe Rossbach. Sandra Bartocha. Brian O'Keefe. Bryan Gregson. Adam Barker. Clyde Butcher. Other items mentioned on the show: 1. Support the podcast on Patreon. I love hearing from the podcast listeners! Reach out to me via Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter if you'd like to be on the podcast or if you have an idea of a topic we can talk about. We also have an Instagram page, a Facebook Page, and a Facebook Group - so don't be shy! Did you also know we have listener after-parties on Clubhouse? This is a great opportunity to interact with other listeners, guests, and the host (when I can) regarding your thoughts on the episode. We also have a searchable transcript of every episode! Thanks for stopping in, collaborating with us, and listening. See you next week.

Welcome to episode 245 of F-Stop Collaborate and Listen with your host Matt Payne. This week on the podcast I was joined by Todd Pickering - a full-time professional photographer from Point Reyes, California. Todd has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute and owns his own gallery where he showcases what he describes as quiet work. He also has done a lot of photography gigs for California wineries. Todd and I talk a lot about the benefits of obtaining an education in art, and the role his professional gigs have played in improving the way he approaches nature photography. On this week's episode we discuss: Todd's journey into photography through his education in fine art, How his work with wineries has positively impacted his ability to make his landscape images, How his trips into nature with his wife have transformed the way he sees photography, How Todd curates his work for his gallery and his customers, And a lot more! Over on Patreon this week, Todd and I chat briefly about art reps and how to value our work when we are asked to sell it to a third party representative. Here's who Todd recommended for the podcast this week: Jerry Dodrill. Carlos Porrata. Steve Babbitt. Other items mentioned on the show: 1. Support the podcast on Patreon. 2. Nature Photographer's Network Special Offer. I love hearing from the podcast listeners! Reach out to me via Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter if you'd like to be on the podcast or if you have an idea of a topic we can talk about. We also have an Instagram page, a Facebook Page, and a Facebook Group - so don't be shy! Did you also know we have listener after-parties on Clubhouse? This is a great opportunity to interact with other listeners, guests, and the host (when I can) regarding your thoughts on the episode. We also have a searchable transcript of every episode! Thanks for stopping in, collaborating with us, and listening. See you next week.

Welcome to episode 244 of F-Stop Collaborate and Listen! This week on the podcast I was joined by Sarina Jackson - a lawyer and landscape photographer living in Sydney, Australia. Sarina is the co-founder of In Focus Women, a community and podcast created to celebrate and bring together female landscape photographers from around the world. On this week's episode we discuss: Why Sarina decided to create the In Focus Women community and podcast, What Sarina has learned by running a community focused on women photographers, Challenges women face in landscape photography that men take for granted, The Catch-22 we face by choosing to (or not to) differentiate women from men in landscape photography, How her photography has been impacted by the work she has put into In Focus Women, And a lot more! Over on Patreon this week, Sarina and I talk about her journey into drone photography and how it has transformed her approach to landscape photography. Here's who Sarina recommended for the podcast this week: David Rogers. Serena Dzenis. Laurie Winter. Viktoria Haack. Other items mentioned on the show: 1. Support the podcast on Patreon. 2. Join the Wisdom app, follow my user name - @mattpaynephoto - and join me on " target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">January 4th at 6 PM Mountain Time to ask me your questions about printing and monetizing your photography prints. 3. Nature Photographer's Network Special Offer. I love hearing from the podcast listeners! Reach out to me via Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter if you'd like to be on the podcast or if you have an idea of a topic we can talk about. We also have an Instagram page, a Facebook Page, and a Facebook Group - so don't be shy! Did you also know we have listener after-parties on Clubhouse? This is a great opportunity to interact with other listeners, guests, and the host (when I can) regarding your thoughts on the episode. We also have a searchable transcript of every episode! Thanks for stopping in, collaborating with us, and listening. See you next week.

Welcome to episode 243 of F-Stop Collaborate and Listen! This week on the podcast I was joined by Murray Livingston - a South African landscape photographer and freelance architect who actively practices a contemplative style of photography while living out of his off-grid van. On this week's episode we discuss: How Murray's study of architecture has influenced his approach to landscape photography, How Murray plan to continue to push his photography into a full-time pursuit, The roles that landscape photography and being in nature have in his life, The creative process, Experience-driven vs. outcome-driven landscape photography And a lot more! Over on Patreon this week, we recorded a bonus episode for people that are kind enough to financially support the show over there. Murray and I discuss how landscape photography is a form of thought. Here's who Murray recommended for the podcast this week: Mike Boden. Adrian Dziewanski. Brendon Holt. Andrew Baruffi. Jassen Todorov. Other items mentioned on the show: 1. Support the podcast on Patreon. 2. F-Stop Collaborate and Listen T-Shirt! I love hearing from the podcast listeners! Reach out to me via Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter if you'd like to be on the podcast or if you have an idea of a topic we can talk about. We also have an Instagram page, a Facebook Page, and a Facebook Group - so don't be shy! Did you also know we have listener after-parties on Clubhouse? This is a great opportunity to interact with other listeners, guests, and the host (when I can) regarding your thoughts on the episode. We also have a searchable transcript of every episode! Thanks for stopping in, collaborating with us, and listening. See you next week.

Welcome to episode 242 of F-Stop Collaborate and Listen! This week on the podcast I was joined by Jeppe Michael Jensen - a photo-journalist by trade and landscape photographer by hobby living in the country of Denmark. In today's episode, we focus a great deal of time discussing the merits of maintaining landscape photography as a hobby as opposed to pursuing it as a full-time vocation, and why Jeppe has chosen to do just that. On this week's episode we discuss: What Jeppe has learned while working with world-class photo journalists, Why going pro isn't for him, How landscape photography has influenced his work as a photo journalist, How his work as a photo journalist has influenced his landscape photography, His thoughts on art and photo journalism as it relates to landscape photography, And a lot more! Here's who Jeppe recommended for the podcast this week: Simon Baxter. Magnus Lindbom. Arild Heitmann. Stian Klo. Other items mentioned on the show: 1. F-Stop Collaborate and Listen T-Shirt. 2. Support the show on Patreon.

Welcome to episode 241 of F-Stop Collaborate and Listen! This week on the podcast I was joined by Jonathan Buford - a landscape photographer and the founder & owner of Arizona Wilderness Brewing Company.  Jonathan founded his brewery with a conservation focus and goal, which intersects with his personal goals for his photography as well. Jonathan is working on a photography book project where he is focusing on all 90 wilderness areas in Arizona, with the hopes of showing the world why these places are so special and why we need to do more to protect them as photographers.  On this week's episode we discuss: How photography led Jonathan to found Arizona Wilderness Brewing Company, The conundrums we all face when photographing wild places, Why failure is ok as a landscape photographer, And a lot more! Here's who Jonathan recommended for the podcast this week: Joel Hazelton. Other items mentioned on the show: 1. Gary Randall & Chris Byrne Columbia River Gorge Workshop. 2. F-Stop Collaborate and Listen T-Shirt!

Welcome to episode 240 of F-Stop Collaborate and Listen! This week on the podcast I was joined by William McIntosh - a landscape photographer and choral music professor at Mt. San Antonio College in Southern California. William and I have been exchanging long and thoughtful e-mails for several years and I finally decided that it would be much more fun to debate our ideas publicly on the podcast instead of via e-mail, so I invited him to join me. I'm so glad he agreed! On this week's episode we discuss: How photography became an outlet for William after losing his wife to cancer, The differences between absolute art and programmatic art, Is landscape photography art, and when is it art? Chasing the light vs. slowing down, Why William has no qualms chasing the icons and epic light, Our motivations for creating images and how that helps shape the types of images we create, And a lot more! Here's who William recommended for the podcast this week: Bruno Pisani. Noel Casaje. Eric Gail. Greg Boratyn. Todd Miller. Other items mentioned on the show: 1. Support Michael Tokildsen's Kickstarter Project. 2. Nature Photographer's Network Special Offer. 3. Support the show on Patreon. 4. Simonton Scale of Creativity. 5. Bartle Test of Gamer (and maybe Photographer) Psychology. By the way, if anyone is curious, here's how I scored (Matt Payne): You are 67% Explorer What Bartle says: Explorers delight in having the game expose its internal machinations to them. They try progressively esoteric actions in wild, out-of-the-way places, looking for interesting features (i.e. bugs) and figuring out how things work. Scoring points may be necessary to enter some next phase of exploration, but it's tedious, and anyone with half a brain can do it. Killing is quicker, and might be a constructive exercise in its own right, but it causes too much hassle in the long run if the deceased return to seek retribution. Socializing can be informative as a source of new ideas to try out, but most of what people say is irrelevant or old hat. The real fun comes only from discovery, and making the most complete set of maps in existence. You are also: 60% Achiever 40% Killer 33% Socializer I've thought about how this relates to my style of photography and it makes a lot of sense! I'd love to hear about your scores and how it relates to your style of photography. I love hearing from the podcast listeners! Reach out to me via Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter if you'd like to be on the podcast or if you have an idea of a topic we can talk about. We also have an Instagram page, a Facebook Page, and a Facebook Group - so don't be shy! We also have a searchable transcript of every episode! Thanks for stopping in, collaborating with us, and listening. See you next week.

Welcome to episode 239 of F-Stop Collaborate and Listen! This week on the podcast I was joined by Huibo Hou - a landscape photographer originally from China now living in San Diego. Her photography has a very consistent look and feel to it which is something I think that a lot of photographers strive to achieve. She predominantly creates images in the black and white style that is quite stunning and her name consistently comes to mind when photographers are asked who currently inspires them. On this week's episode we discuss: How her multi-cultural background influences her work, Her transition from documenting moments to expressing emotion, Her journey into photography and diverging away from chasing perfect moments, Hunters vs. gatherers in landscape photography, The trouble with pre-conception in landscape photography, Honing in on a consistent look in our images, Cultural influences on our approaches to landscape photography, And a lot more! Here's who Huibo recommended for the podcast this week: Yan Zhang. Ciming Mei. Viktoria Haack. The Atlas of Beauty. Robert Hecht. Bruce Percy. Other items mentioned on the show: 1. Support Michael Tokildsen's Kickstarter Project. 2. Sarah Marino's new e-book. 3. Support the show on Patreon.

Welcome to episode 238 of F-Stop Collaborate and Listen! This week on the podcast I was joined by Michael Torkildsen - a landscape photographer who has been living on the road since right before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, with his eyes on becoming a full-time photographer.  Michael has had to pivot quite a bit since he launched into his full-time career and has recently been putting in the hard work of writing a self-published book on composition. Michael and I chat about his book project, and focus a lot of our time on discussing the challenges of composition in landscape and nature photography. We also discuss: Stories from working in his mother's 1-hour photo shop, His journey into full-time photography through COVID-19, Photographing icons and its application in composition, Rules of composition and how to use them (or not), Our thoughts on Instagram, And a lot more! In the episode we briefly discussed Greg Vaughn's excellent Photographing Oregon book, and Greg sent in a correction to the discussion: "For Photographing Oregon, the publisher and I arranged a license for each of those photos with the creators. The photographers were paid in the form of 10 copies of the book (valued at $25 each), plus they received an adjacent photo credit and a link to their website in the book. With the exception of one photographer, all of the photographers that I asked to contribute readily did so on those terms. We did the same for photographs featured in Photographing Washington." Here's who Michael recommended for the podcast this week: Steven Webber. Hilton Chen. Other items mentioned on the show: 1. Support Michael's Kickstarter Project. 2. Michael Rung's special offer. 3. Support the show on Patreon. 4. Join us on Clubhouse! I love hearing from the podcast listeners! Reach out to me via Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter if you'd like to be on the podcast or if you have an idea of a topic we can talk about. We also have an Instagram page, a Facebook Page, and a Facebook Group - so don't be shy! We also have a searchable transcript of every episode! Thanks for stopping in, collaborating with us, and listening. See you next week.

Welcome to episode 237 of F-Stop Collaborate and Listen!   This week on the podcast I was joined by William Neill, Eric Bennett, and Alex Noriega for a casual yet informative conversation that is filled with tidbits of wisdom that I think any landscape and nature photographer can get something out of. The main focus of our conversation was around collaboration and community, central components to the success of Eric Bennett's new book, Conversations with Nature.   On the podcast this week, we discuss: How and why Alex and William got involved in Eric's book project, How to support photographers that you admire, Curation of our photography and the role it plays in standing out, Creative blocks and how to overcome them, Legacy in photography, And a lot more! Mentioned on the show this week: William Neill's book. Eric Bennett's post-processing videos. Use the code "FSTOP20" for 20% off. Alex Noriega's post-processing videos. Support the show on Patreon.