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Okay, here is the full interview with Elena about the Albania workshop program. https://www.wideanglephototours.com/

I know, you just can't stay away from my nonsensical ramblings. It's natural. Don't fight it. This week we have a wide array of strange ideologies partnered with little to no research. This is about wild theories and passion only. Like my recent near breakdown when it comes to photography equipment. What about the fact we have ZERO chance to solve climate issues? Do you want more? Okay, how about bodybuilding culture, Shifter.media update, birding, stargazing, and bike over Tesla? Finally, I'm sorry Svalbard.

I'm back. Who is this for? Hero of the week? GOAT of the week? (There are so many these days.) Let's talk about Tesla, Leica, and archiving photography and the fragility of the snowflake photo world. How about a photo essay delivered by a fashion magazine? Power and control and the radicalization of the vaccine passport by those who have never traveled. Do you want more? How about China making a stand on "mindless scrolling?" AG23 updates, TW200 updates, and why my life now includes a Brompton.

As many of you know, in 2019 I ventured to Albania to take a workshop from visual artist Elena Dorfman. Elena and I have been friends for many years but had never crossed paths, so to speak, in the field. She had been venturing to Albania since the country opened up in the early 1990s and I knew she would provide me an opportunity to learn and explore.

The workshop, my first in nearly twenty years, was eye-opening as well as educational and was my first real field foray in many years. After the class, we began discussing the idea of working together on an upcoming workshop. Then came C19 and the world took a moment to pause.

However, as we learn more about the virus and how to take precautions we are, once again, planning our Albania venture. In addition, she and I have pitched an online class to the Santa Fe Workshops. (Stay tuned for more information on this.)

Elena has had a very interesting career. She and I have a similar background in linear, reportage style photography, but she has gone on to adapt and evolve in many ways I did not. From this, we can all learn a thing or two.

This is one of the best interviews I've done in regard to learning about how this industry works, how someone can and should adapt and evolve, and how one person has overcome the demands of the industry to blaze a personal path of singular vision.

Okay, back by popular demand the For What It's Worth Podcast. Complete with the hero of the week, the goat of the week, and a rambling assortment of posts and topics that are sure to please at least ten percent of the listening audience. We talk Tern bikes, vaccine hesitancy, porn stars I happen to know, journaling, the Sony A7C, and why geeks should be fined for being so geeky. But there's more. Strap in and hang on.

Back again. This time we hit those pioneers in tinfoil hats, Rick Santorum, and the fact we actually had rain here in New Mexico. Following this, we touch on topics like the untouched wilderness, or the idea of it anyway, failed beginnings, the Yamaha TW200 vs the Sony a7C. We also talk my favorite birds, India during C19 and yet another of my fav YouTubers biting the dust.

How about a close encounter on a hiking trail? Of the black and furry kind. But that's just the beginning people. This week we talk hero, goat, and the idea that crime does pay, depending on who you are. We also cover a potential future motorcycle, people expressing faux outrage over gun violence while hiding the fact they are gun owners, the Oscars, C19 entitlement, fly fishing, the Russia hack and a tale of two shows....

Yes, I'm back. Hero's, goats and workshops, and Zines. What's not to like. Tune in, turn on and strap in for the continuation of this podcast that was alone in the grave only to be resurrected and brought back to life. We talk Albania workshop, political craziness, C19 lessons, and the painful reality the Amazon is going away. And much, much more.

Bong rippers on YouTube. YouTube plagiarism, selling prints and books, and the joys of learning my new 360 camera. But wait, there is far, far more. A little advice for anti-kneelers, the reality of doing guest posts on MY sites, Dems getting caught doing what they claim they don't, the insanity of the "web sleuth" movement, and what I find on my adventure list for this year. (COVID willing.) Strap in and tune on.

Let's channel our inner Bill Murray from Meatballs. It just doesn't matter. Justice, bike tire width, Frontline China, and YouTube grifters. Why is it that dreaming is SO damn important? Why was the Super Bowl NOT the win America so badly needs? Is it okay to be Republican but claim to be Democrat? Why boxing just fell below irrelevancy and why texting just might be the worst invention of all time.