F-Stop Collaborate and Listen - A Photography Podcast

Welcome to episode 168 of the F-Stop Collaborate and Listen podcast. This week's episode features a landscape photographer and scientist hailing from upstate New York -  Manuel Palacios . Manuel has a wonderful body of landscape photography work on his website and I have always appreciated his  Instagram feed . For the past several years, Manuel has spent countless days and nights wandering around...

Welcome to episode 167 of the F-Stop Collaborate and Listen podcast.  This week's episode features a photographer I have been following for many, many years and have had many interactions with on social media over the years.  Todd Caudle  is perhaps one of the most well-known landscape photographers in Colorado and is the owner of his own publishing company,  Skyline Press , a vehicle that Todd us...

Welcome to episode 166 of the F-Stop Collaborate and Listen podcast. This week's episode features an "up-and-comer" named  Ethan Deshaies . Ethan is a 20-year-old college student studying abroad in New Zealand (lucky!) and has some fresh perspectives on photography as an art-form. I think this episode is a nice compare and contrast with the ones we have done with more well-established photographer...

Welcome to episode 165 of the F-Stop Collaborate and Listen podcast. This week's episode comes to you from the Out of Chicago LIVE event that I took part in back in April. I moderated a panel discussion about night / astro-photography with some great panelists, including  Royce Bair ,  Ian Norman ,  Diana Southern ,  Mike Taylor , and  Chris Nicholson . It was a really fun panel discussion, in my...

Welcome to episode 164 of the F-Stop Collaborate and Listen podcast. This week's episode features a landscape photographer whom I have admired for a long time -  John Barclay . John hails from Bucks County, Pennsylvania and is a fantastic photographer, musician, and a great guy. John and I had a wonderful conversation this week and covered a wide variety of topics, including: His beginnings in pho...

Welcome to episode 163 of the F-Stop Collaborate and Listen podcast. This week's episode features a landscape and architecture photographer living in Orange County, California.  Nick Carver  has been entrenched in photography since 2006 when he dove head first into business side of photography where he was met with many challenges. Nick almost gave up after several years of teaching for people on...

Welcome to episode 162 of the F-Stop Collaborate and Listen podcast.  This week's episode features a photographer hailing from Salt Lake City, Utah - he's a great guy and a supporter of the show. Our guest is an absolute master of drone photography, including cityscapes, landscapes, architecture, night-time, and everything in between. We had a wonderful time chatting all about drones. Without furt...

Welcome to episode 161 of the F-Stop Collaborate and Listen podcast. This week features an incredible landscape photographer hailing from Western Australia,  Christian Fletcher . Christian was the very first winner of the  International Landscape Photographer of the Year  award in 2014 and his work continues to inspire many people across the globe. Christian is especially well-known for his incred...

Welcome to episode 160 of the F-Stop Collaborate and Listen podcast. This week features a very special panel conversation with some amazing landscape photographers. In this week's episode, we explore gender issues in the landscape photography industry from the perspective of our fabulous panel of women, including: Sandra Bartocha Viktoria Haack Jessie Johnson Dani Lefrançois Sarah Marino Anna Morg...

Welcome to episode 159 of the F-Stop Collaborate and Listen podcast.  This week's amazing guest is none other than  Brooks Jensen , someone I have admired for many years. Brooks Jensen is a fine-art photographer, publisher, workshop teacher, and writer. He and his wife Maureen Gallagher are the owners, co-founders, editors, and publishers of the award winning  LensWork , one of today’s most respec...

Welcome to episode 158 of the F-Stop Collaborate and Listen podcast. This week's amazing guest is Toni Toreno , the founder of the  PNW Photo Summit  and  Bend Photo Tours .  This week we covered a wide variety of topics, including: How Toni has been pivoting after the realities of COVID-19 have set in and how she is adapting her conference business as a result. Where Toni sees the industry going...

Welcome to episode 157 of the F-Stop Collaborate and Listen podcast.  I am sure you noticed some different intro music this week. That is because it is the music of this week's guest,  Jon Whitaker .  Jon is a professor of music at the University of Alabama and a great photographer.  This week we did a deep dive comparing and contrasting music and photography, both from a learners and a teacher's...

Welcome to Episode 156 of the F-Stop Collaborate and Listen podcast. This week, I had a fantastic conversation with  Sarah Lyndsay . Sarah Lyndsay is a Canadian landscape, portrait, and wedding photographer and  Instagram star .  We had a great chat this week and covered some fun topics: Landscape photography completely changed her life and Sarah shared her uplifting story with us on the show this...

Welcome to Episode 155 of the F-Stop Collaborate and Listen podcast. This week's episode features one of the most inspirational photographers of our generation, in my opinion. He has focused the attention of his lens on things that matter.  Welcome  Clay Bolt  to the podcast. Clay Bolt is a Natural History and Conservation Photographer specializing in the world’s smaller creatures who regularly pa...

Welcome to a special episode of the F-Stop Collaborate and Listen podcast.  This week we have assembled a fabulous panel of full-time professional photographers to talk all about their thoughts on the COVID-19 outbreak and the impact it is having on the landscape photography industry. We also discuss how photographers can pivot and take advantage of this situation and we discuss some ways in which...

Welcome to Episode 153 of the F-Stop Collaborate and Listen podcast. This week's episode features an Italian photographer who produces two podcasts, including " The Travelling Image Makers ", and " Closing the Gap ." He runs and manages  photography travel tours  across the globe and happens to be a really outstanding guy.  Welcome  Ugo Cei  to the podcast!  We had a fun conversation this week and...

Welcome to Episode 152 of the F-Stop Collaborate and Listen podcast. Be sure to check out the full liner notes for more info. This week's episode features someone that has been photographing the landscape for over 30 years. He comes from the professional commercial space and now enjoys his time as a part-time professional fully employed in the IT world. I'd like to introduce you to  Scott Walton ....

Welcome to Episode 151 of the F-Stop Collaborate and Listen podcast.    This week's episode features the winner of our inaugural Landscape Photography Conservation Award, J Henry Fair . If you are not familiar with Henry's work, you are in for a real treat. His most recent project involved photographing the impacts of consumerism from an airplane, including impacts on the land from mining, oil and...

Welcome to Episode 150 of the F-Stop Collaborate and Listen podcast. This week's episode features a fantastic landscape photographer from Santa Rosa, California,  Brenda Tharp . Brenda is a full-time photographer, educator and speaker with a passion for the natural world. Her landscape and nature photographs have been used by Apple, Nature Conservancy, and the National Park Service, as she is a co...

Welcome to Episode 149 of the F-Stop Collaborate and Listen podcast. This week's episode features a fellow Coloradoan and Large-format film landscape photographer,  Alex Burke . Alex's work is diverse but is largely focused on the mountains of Colorado as well as the plains and prairies of Eastern Colorado. He has been working on a very interesting project where he has been photographing the inter...

Welcome to Episode 148 of the F-Stop Collaborate and Listen podcast.  This week's episode was recorded live at Out of Yosemite. I was lucky to be invited as an instructor and podcast host by the gracious  Out of Chicago  team. They put together a fantastic line up of instructors, activities, presentations, and excursions. Students and instructors were given the opportunity to interact and learn fr...

Welcome to Episode 147 of the F-Stop Collaborate and Listen podcast. This week's episode features a sales coach known as "The Sales Maven" -  Nikki Rausch . After 25 years of experience selling in the corporate world, Nikki decided to trade in her road warrior status so she could help others sell in a way that builds relationships, creates true connection, and results in more closed deals and long...

Welcome to Episode 146 of the F-Stop Collaborate and Listen podcast.  This week's episode features an incredible aerial and commercial photographer,  Toby Harriman . Toby and I covered a wide variety of topics this week, including: How he went from graphic web design to photography. Choosing a direction in photography. The business of photography. Mental health as it relates to being a full-time p...

Welcome to  Episode 145  of the F-Stop Collaborate and Listen podcast.    This week's episode features a large and medium format film photographer from western Kansas, Michael Strickland .    Michael transitioned from digital to film and hasn't looked back. He was featured in a really interesting Geekwire YouTube video showcasing why he made the switch, which really piqued my interest.    Michael...

Welcome to Episode 144 of the F-Stop Collaborate and Listen podcast.  Heads-up! Stay tuned to the end of the show to hear who won our inaugural  Landscape Conservation Award ! This week's episode features a landscape photographer from Johnson City, Tennessee,  Jerry Greer . Jerry matriculated from his 4x5 film camera to digital in 2007 and hasn't looked back. Don't worry film lovers, next week we...