Chris Freitag

If the @staff would maybe just watch the the tiles that show up on people's dashboard, maybe they would allow us to permanently disable it rather than snooze it for 7 days at a time. I don't want to see the next mass shooter posing with his AR-15 on a Tumblr live tile.

In my latest #YouTube video, I share the images I took while traveling in Washington. This video was harder to make because I am showcasing my work and it’s much more personal than even my talking head videos.

I hope you enjoy it.

I choke on saying all of that.

Took me way too long but my next #YouTube video is up. This one took me down a different path than I intended, which was really fun. It was even called #cinematic #photography right up to the end when I changed it to Finding Your Photographic Style.

My guess is it won’t fare as well because I don’t talk about gear at all. This one is for love of the game.

The Fujinon XF27mmF2.8 R WR is a pancake lens that's perfect for travel and blending in for street photography. Not exactly the right lens for a company event but it was all I had.

Why I upgraded. Or why I chose to upgrade. Or why I could justify this big expense to myself. Or why I told myself whatever lies I needed to so I could just go trade in my X-T4 and get my hands on this thing.

I made this as a companion to my blog post from September. It has had a profound affect on me, but not because it's an X100V. It was the right camera for me when I needed it.

I did not want to go outside this morning. It’s cold and there’s snow everywhere. Not just snow, but that weeks-long snow that’s been scraped and salted, and is brown from the filth of the streets. I hate that snow.

I dragged myself out anyway. I took my Fujifilm X100V and a travel tripod and phone mount in case I wanted to give vlogging a try. First, that word is just the worst, vlogging. And second, I can not just walk around the streets talking to my video camera because I respect other people. I’ll find another way to talk to the camera.

And it was worth it. Even if I didn’t have such fantastic light and the photos were no good, it’s still worth going out because I can’t learn and improve if I don’t go out.

I’m happy with these. And I get to say to myself that I did this, I have these photos now. Because I went out.

But the prequel will be about an unchecked tech industry falling all over themselves to collect more and more data because that’s the pot at the end of the rainbow.

Speaking of the pot…

Look at my home page on Flickr.

Now look at my home page on Glass.

I made a 1 minute 40 second video of my favorite #photography in 2022.