Americans have been searching for new ways to spend time alone.  

Verizon sifted through the Google Data to find out which hobbies and interests have been  most popular in each state.

People in Alabama searched for DIY classes…  Hawaiins are most interested in Foreign Languages.  Baking is big in Montana… but here in Utah… the thing we wanted to know about most … was Photography.

Which makes sense.  We have more kids.  More Mountains.  Red Rocks.  Spellbinding scenery.   Now I left radio worked in the photography industry for a decade.   And while some people are content to wiggle their phone at an interesting scene… and good enough… others need the Nikon Z7… thousands of dollars worth of lenses… the carbon fiber tripod…  and 20-grand later… they do the same thing as the ones with the iphones.  Snap …snap …snap… snap  …they never put the camera down.

So Utahns who love photography… as someone who’s been in the industry… I’m going to give you a piece of advice that you won’t get in any online classes.  I learned this face-to-face with a legendary photographer on a visit to Australia. He took me to a World War I memorial… and when I started snap snap snap … he pushed my camera down… and said… take a Neurochrome.

A what.

He said a neurochrome   Neuro.  Use your brain… to remember this scene.  Look with your eyes.. not your lens. The problem with us photographers… is that we never stop to look… and remember.  The way normal people do.

So newfounds photographers of utah… before you buy that next piece of gear… my advice… simple advice.  Put camera down.  And enjoy the world… before you try to capture it.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.