Pepe Pelota

In pictures from a road trip to the Yosemite valley, pictures of the Yosemite vistas were not the most interesting interesting. What was interesting was seeing my uncle and mother as children, and how they got on in their RV.

“It’s nature, it’s life. I’ll take it however it comes. Honestly, it doesn’t scare me. At 65, I’ve done it all. I’m moving on. As [my partner] Daniel always says, we have maybe 10 years, 20 years, ahead of us. We’re going to take advantage of it. I still like doing new things. I know that, from the moment I retire, I will earn a lot less. But that... See more

I use Google Photos for my phone camera photos, and sometimes upload edits to access them easily. I have a Lightroom catalog with lots of photos, and just a few on the Lightroom cloud, which I've been using more. I don't have any fancy way to tie these together, so I kind of have to dig to find a photo on occasion.

But it wasn’t that I lacked talent. The real reason I struggled was that I missed an essential skill—I didn’t understand how to be my own editor. And by editor, I don’t mean my skills in Photoshop, but rather my ability to cull my images. Editing is the ability not only to choose which images are better than others but to organize them into a body... See more

me smiling at you because i didn't hear anything you just said https://t.co/By0UuUe3Fw

You notice a lot more of the world, which is the point, because observation is a skill to be developed, and a necessary one before understanding aesthetics.