Host Mark Bennett gazes back into the history of optics and human vision, standing on the shoulders of giants like Al-Hazen, Shen Kuo, and Kepler. (Can you look at history in any direction but back?) He doesn't gaze very closely at macro photography, but does review a smartphone accessory lens that looks both close and wide. And his special guest is world traveler and photographer, plus founder and president of the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation, Ken Ross.

Host Mark Bennett made a pilgrimage to that grandest of canyons, about which the namers of such things apparently didn't own a thesaurus, to visit with Michael Buchheit of the Grand Canyon Association. And in addition to learning to make grayscale lemonade and the meanings of the words behind the national anthem, I mean, behind the letters HSL, Steve Jobs drops an f-bomb.

Mark dives into dynamic range, then dives deeper by looking at high dynamic range, then expands the topic to compress many into one thanks for Aurora HDR 2018 software from Skylum. His guest is Doctor Rebecca Wilks, retired from that profession and embarked on another — photography. A couple of quotes, a smattering of humor and sound effects. You know, the usual mishmash.

Host Mark Bennett fits the leader of ho-hum-history into the take-up spool of hadn't-really-thought-about-it to, just barely, explain how 35mm film came to be. Then he grabs at holding onto a smartphone with a Joby GripTight POV and, after guest Mike Goldner holds forth about Artisan Colour, back to Mark for a photo tip on oversaturation (the tip is, do it) and a sprinkling of quotes from famous non-photographers. Better grab a hot dog and a cold soda, 'cuz this train is wrecking soon…

Mark explains bits and bytes and, wait! Come back! Don't worry, he does it with his usual humor. Wait! No, no, come back! He also runs a diskless hard disk through the gauntlet of a single simple speed test, plus his practical overview of the thing, so that's not so bad, right? And then the episode turns super smart — Joel Grimes, successful commercial photographer, gives so much insight and wisdom and practical advice that you'll have to listen twice. Plus a photo tip & atypical quotes. Yes!

Host Mark Bennett explains color temperature in both an amusing and, possibly, incomprehensible way, as is his wont. He shares a product that helps you wrassle color temperature to its knees, then suggests you pick it up from its knees and give it a big ol' kiss. (He's all over the place!) Maureen Grandmont is the former schoolteacher from Cape Cod who teaches Mark a thing or two, and a trifecta of women try to put a little balance in our lives. (Good luck with that, Mark!)

Host Mark Bennett explains the basics of copyrights and who gets them when (usually "you" and "immediately"), speaks with Mick Orlosky of Camera Bits (publishers of Photo Mechanic software), encourages you to add a copyright notice to your images right in your camera (without telling you exactly how), and reviews the Sunwayfoto T1A20 tripod (which is short of stature but not of sturdiness).

Host Mark Bennett pokes at our eyes in an explanatory way, then sorta dares you to visit a site that helps you with your smartphone photography, wraps up eight episodes with Peter Ensenberger sharing his, Peter's, vast wealth of guidance and experience to improve any of your photography, then quotes some of the folks who brought us color photography in 1861 (and in 1862 invented the boring slide show (not really)).

Host Mark Bennett takes on two topics — color and filtration, aided in the former by Peter Ensenberger with quotes from an unrelated collection of artists, and the latter by explaining them at very little length and then mucking with them in his own way. It's a two-fer-two show that you can listen to with one or both of your ears!

Host Mark Bennett digs into digital camera history, and it's a brief dig because it's a brief history. He tries stacking photos for impossible depth of focus by shooting with the Helicon FB Tube from Helicon Soft and comes away a happy stacker. Peter Ensenberger breaks the rules he just taught us in the previous episode, then Mark piles on the tips for taking Peter up on the anarchy. There are some quotes from a spectrum of rule breakers and a nod to a crypto-photo that sold for a million crypto-dollars!