@MidnightRider yea I know. I've been doing this 37 years (I started when I was 7 but didn't take it seriously until I was about 15/16) and people don't want to pay for experience. But I'm not looking for a full blown career (I'm realistic) but I'd like to make some bank so I can keep buying new toys (aka lenses/flashes) for it. There was that one site that used to favor photography. Now it's more about reels/stories and it's like does anyone actually care about the art form

Hey coso fam! I got a ? for y'all any any tips would be helpful. you all know by now I do photography. Sadly its been landscapes & street for a while now. hopefully that'll be changing over summer. That said, I'm on other outlets to get my name out there as I'm capable of more than I show not to mention I want to make $$ . It's a hobby first /$$ second & when I've made $$ it's been good $$. But what can I do to increase engagement? I do stories/reels & get views but never get likes/comments.

#waterfalls

I just realized after this trail I'm not winning any marathons 🤣. Going down wasn't so bad but coming up totally different story. Soaked in sweat and racing heart 🤣. But now it's just more motivation to get back into the gym

More #streetphotography today. There was no way I was gonna put this in black and white. The color is what makes it

Street photography Tuesday!

Bird is the word

@stueytheround I love my 70-200 but I hate lugging it around . I tend to be constantly moving and recently I started learning the shoot from the hip technique so its been 16mm for me . Allows a bit of room for error, downside is gotta be really close!

#streetphotographers. I'm in a chatty mood today. So let's chat. What is your lens of choice when shooting in public

How quickly the stress released knowing I am not going back to the job. NEW chapter begins today!

When the sun goes down

@peeppeepcircus possibly. Im just at the age I guess where I hate having grudges/hard feelings and all that jazz. Up to this year I had a lot of resentment towards alot of people that in some cases childish and should of let go then and I guess I'm in the make amends phase of my life whether I was responsible for the situation or not. It's cool though bc that chapter I can finally close. Got a lot of chapters to finish 🙂

@peeppeepcircus exactly. At least I can say I put the behind and I grew up. I guess some people still have high opinions of themselves . There's a story but I won't get into it

@peeppeepcircus I just find it amusing in a way because all 3x , it wasn't me who ended it 😂

Worst part is I dunno what I did to get unfriended the first time let alone blocked this time 😂.

Well that friendship was short lived 😂. I've been on a rekindling friendship lately. Putting to past some grudges. I've had an off again/on again friendship w/ someone for 30+ years now you'd think I learn. Friends in elementary, didn't talk again til like '19 on FB, she unfriended me . Bc I felt she sent the request she should initiate the conv. Didn't talk again til last month, thought things were good at this point. Actually talking. then I get blocked apparently in the last few days 😂

@LnzyHou @BrazenlyLiberal yep. I've been wanting to do that for at least 8 years now. I think it would def be a trip to remember

@LnzyHou @BrazenlyLiberal then I'm gonna go down to LA and visit the sunset strip where all my rock heroes got their start. Leaving where I am literally is the best thing that i could have done .

@LnzyHou @BrazenlyLiberal well that's gonna be fulfilled as well. I got so many projects I've been wanting to do my inner child is looking forward to it. Writing my first book, got a podcast in the works, YouTube channel and I'm going to get to do some travelling. Haven't done any since college. I'm actually thinking this summer of taking my bike down route 66. If I figured it out correctly should take me 5 weeks depending how many detours and how much riding time I wanna do

@LnzyHou @BrazenlyLiberal there's A LOT more but yeah between what I'm dealing with over there and burnt out. Yeah I think a change will be the best thing for me