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Welcome to Missed Mile Markers! 🌿📸

Hello and welcome,

I’m thrilled you’ve found your way here! I’m a quirky, humorous, and enthusiastic photographer, capturing the beauty of Colorado’s parks and wildlife. Originally, I come from a background in internet security and technology—specializing in DevOps, infrastructure, and optimization—and I dabble in programming. But here’s where things get interesting: I’m also colorblind.

The Beauty of Seeing Differently

Being colorblind is at the core of how I experience and share the world through photography. I don’t edit my photos, and here’s why: if I were to edit them for my eyes, they just wouldn’t look right to most people. The warmth, the balance—it would all be off! My goal is to capture moments that stand out in my mind’s eye. If it catches my attention, then I figure for those who see color as it truly is, you’ll often be treated to something exquisite. Seeing differently means seeing something truly unique.

Here are some examples as how things look to me.

Here are edited photos that begin to depict how I observe the world. The bottom one is the normal photo which is unedited. The top 2 photographs are edited to so you can begin to understand how I see the world.

That is a big difference, or so I am told.....

No Formal Training, Just Passion

I have no formal photography training. Everything I know comes from reading, learning, and then simply getting out there and experimenting—like that classic advice, "always shoot into the sun"… just kidding, never shoot into the sun, unless you want to! 😄

A Lesson in Color: Unedited, Unfiltered

Take these two photos, for instance—both unedited, taken at the same time with the same settings, yet the difference in colors amazes me every time.

The difference in the above photos are slight positional differences, and slight variation in time (maybe seconds). However the only difference I see is the one on the left looks darker....

The variations remind me why I prefer not to edit my photos. To me, there’s beauty in capturing a scene as it is, without my colorblindness adjusting the reality of it.

Other Works:

Youtube Channel:

Video Blog: https://www.tumblr.com/videomilemarkers

Interested in My Work?

I do sell my photographs, and in most cases, I’m more than happy to allow them to be used in creative works. If that’s something you’re interested in, just shoot me a DM—I’d love to chat more!

Thanks for visiting, and I hope you enjoy seeing the world through my eyes.

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𝔏𝔦𝔨𝔢 ℑ 𝔰𝔞𝔦𝔡 𝔦𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔳𝔦𝔡𝔢𝔬, 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔦𝔰 𝔪𝔶 𝔣𝔦𝔯𝔰𝔱 𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢 𝔭𝔬𝔰𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤, ℑ'𝔪 𝔨𝔦𝔫𝔡𝔞 𝔫𝔢𝔯𝔳𝔬𝔲𝔰 𝔩𝔬𝔩. ℑ 𝔴𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔨𝔦𝔫𝔡𝔞 𝔠𝔲𝔱𝔢 (𝔴𝔥𝔦𝔠𝔥 𝔦𝔰 𝔡𝔦𝔣𝔣𝔢𝔯𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔪 𝔪𝔶 𝔭𝔣𝔭 ℑ 𝔨𝔫𝔬𝔴 ℑ𝔪𝔨 𝔦𝔣 ℑ 𝔰𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔫𝔤𝔢 𝔦𝔱..!) ★·.·⍣·.·★.·

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“Top 4!”

Contains: In which a fan curates a video dedicated to catching the small moments between y/n and Crankama that don’t go unnoticed.

Warnings: fluff, kissing, suggestive if you squint really hard??, not proofread..

Pairing: Crankama (Connor) x fem!reader

It started off as a normal night. Y/n came over to Connor’s house, waited for him to finish streaming, and then hung out with him as any other night would go.

Y/n was perched up on Connor’s lap in bed, back laying across his chest, his fingers rubbing small circles on her hips through her sleep shorts absentmindedly with his head resting on her shoulder as they watched TikTok together.

This was a usual occurrence after Connor streamed. Somewhere through the plethora of videos they watched they came across one in particular.

‘Top 4 relationship moments between Crankama and his girlfriend’ at first Connor didnt notice, he was too busy being sleepily zoned out until she broke the silence.

“Con look at this!” She whispered in a soft tone. “Hm?” He replied, cracking an eye open and looking down at the screen.

She slowly watched his face as he came to the realization of what he was looking at. “What the fuck?” He exclaimed before looking at y/n.

“I didn’t know we were caught that many times” he said slightly confused. “Well we apparently were!” Y/n said giggling. “Wanna watch it with me?” She said looking at the boy.

“Fuck yeah I do” he said raising his head from the girls shoulder to get a better look at her phone screen.

Y/n unpaused the video and it began to play. ‘Top 4 relationship moments between Crankama and his girlfriend’

4. THAT phone call (let’s pretend that crank has his license..🤦‍♀️)

The first clip being the time Crankama was waiting for Ohbaby to join discord at the beginning of stream, he had started surprisingly early that day.

The stream was seemingly going smoothly until Connor got a call from y/n. Quickly excusing himself and hitting mute on his stream mic he accepted her FaceTime, watching the screen light up with her face.

As soon as he accepted the call his smile dropped. He was expecting her to be her usual smiley self, but she wasn’t smiling, she was in fact the polar opposite of smiling.

Y/n had clumps of mascara and tears streaming down her face as she made a messy explanation as to why she was basically hysterical.

She explained that she was on her period but her parents were out of town and she was in too much pain to drive to the store.

As soon as she finished he was already hopping up to slip his shoes on and get his keys while comforting her over the phone and telling her he loves her.

“I’m in so much pain Connor it’s never been this bad” she says in a small sounding voice. Once he heard that he felt his heart basically break into two. He hated seeing his girl in pain. “I know baby I’ll be there soon. it’s gonna be ok” he says in a softer voice to hopefully calm y/n down a bit.

“Okay guys I’m going to have to hop off of stream today.. an emergency involving my girlfriend came up. I might be able to get on later but it’s unlikely sorry” he says apologetic to the stream before ending it

3. The kiss

This clip was mid stream. Ohbaby and Crankama were playing build a boat and laughing about something stupid that ohbaby made.

y/n had been in little bits of the stream, replying to something a chatter said or laughing at something Ohbaby and Crankama did.

But this particular time Ohbaby was taking a five minute break, saying something along the lines of his dad needing him or something. So while Connor was sat in his chair waiting, he was talking to y/n with his mic muted.

After a minute or so she stood up and sauntered over to stand next to his chair with one of her hands resting on his shoulder looking down at her boyfriend.

He appeared to be agreeing what she was saying, nodding his head while looking back up at her smiling.

Eventually she moved her other hand to his jaw and tilted his head up to give him a kiss before stepping out of frame.

The chat immediately went ballistic, flying so fast that even if Crankama was looking, he wouldn’t be able to read it. But instead he sat there looking at his door that the girl walked out of smiling.

He was completely whipped.

2. Love island

It was one of his occasional late night streams. Lights were dim, his voice was scratchier and more relaxed, and his eyes were half lidded as he answered questions from the chat.

“When is y/n coming over?” He read aloud. “She’s actually already here but she’s out in the living room eating ice cream and watching that bullshit show love island” he replied to the chatter with a little laugh at the thought of her genuinely invested in the show.

Just as he finished his sentence he hears his door click open, looking over at the door he sees y/ns sleepy figure step through the door before closing it quietly.

“Hey baby how was your show?” He says, turning his chair and holding his arms out inviting you to hug him. “I was good” she says while climbing onto his arms and laying her head on his shoulder.

“I’m glad you enjoyed it” he says rubbing her back while she talks about it.

1. Surprise!!

The next clip showed the end Connor’s birthday stream. He had been dramatically complaining that his girlfriend has been ‘out of town for a month’ almost the entire stream.

Little did he know that y/n was planning to surprise him. She’d been curating the plan with Brentley, Aiden (his brother), and the rest of his family for a month.

At the end of the stream right before it ended, she was going to sneak into his room and stay by the door and wait for Ohbaby and Saloonae to pretend not to hear crank. Hopefully causing him to ask the stream if they could hear him and then she would answer.

So when the day came she pulled into his driveway and greeted his parents before giving a heads up to Saloonae and Ohbaby.

They texted her to come into cranks room and wait. Stepping into his room as quietly as she could, she stood by the door and watched his friend and his brother do their part.

“Yo chat can you hear me?” Crank questioned, with his usual loud voice. “I can” y/n said, catching the boy off guard. “What the fu-“ he said spinning around quickly towards the voice he had heard, just to be met with her.

“Happy birthday Con!” she says with a wide smile.

“Oh my fucking god!” He said as he sprung up from his chair and ran to hug the girl with a huge smile on his face.

“I missed you so fucking much oh my god” he said practically jumping on her.

“I mixed you too baby!” She said giggling at his reaction until she feels tears hitting her cheek.

Her heart dropping as pulls back in alarm looking up at the boy “hey Connor are you ok?” She says as she lifts one of her hands to wipe his tears away.

“Yeah I’m just happy” he says laughing and looking down at the girl with a love struck expression.

The video ends and there’s a beat of silence before Connor speaks.

“Wow ok so I guess we were caught more than once” he says with wide eyes. “Well thanks Captain obvious” y/n smiles looking at the boys face on her shoulder.



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