Life Between the Poles

In this episode I introduce my friends and listeners to my new blog bradarmstrong.blog.   I talk briefly about how Instagram has turned into a mini TikTok.  It's video and advertising.  There still is good photography on Instagram but I don't find engagement other than seeing empty emoji's.  I guess it's a conformation that people are seeing your work but it seems to fall intellectually short.  With the blog I c...

We drove over to Santa Monica from Phoenix for a few reasons.  One to have our wedding blessed by a Catholic Priest which created quite a bit of anxiety on my part with the usual response of "No" I'm not doing that.  But, I always give in and in the end I'm grateful I did.  We also had the celebration of life for my brother-in-law Barry which was truly fantastic and special. Also, I wanted to try my hand at pseu...

In this episode I give my usual update of my triggers at the gym then I go into few interesting personal stories of extraordinary assignments and  projects I covered as a newspaper photojournalist.

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Thank you for listening and help me grow this channel. Have a great day. Many of the photographs I talk about here are on Facebook: Brad Armstrong the Avatar picture is my wife and I with Smokey the Bear, Instagram @ shade_i...

I've been doing some but learning more about the craft of Street Photography by reading books and watching YouTube documentaries on various photographers old and new about their methods for moving through the public space capturing humanity.  It seems to me that Street photography is defined with a very wide brush but primarily means candid.  What is now called street photography sometimes has nothing to do with the human cond...

This episode is about the Circle of Life where we lost two very close people in our families lives and we had the birth of a third grandson.  

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Thank you for listening and help me grow this channel. Have a great day. Many of the photographs I talk about here are on Facebook: Brad Armstrong the Avatar picture is my wife and I with Smokey the Bear, Instagram @ shade_image / commercial and editorial portraits Instagram @ b...

This episode describes my calamity with kidney stone surgery and my experience at the company Christmas Party that immediately followed my medical proceedure.

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Thank you for listening and help me grow this channel. Have a great day. Many of the photographs I talk about here are on Facebook: Brad Armstrong the Avatar picture is my wife and I with Smokey the Bear, Instagram @ shade_image / commercial and editorial portrai...

This episode updates us on a few triggers from the gym with pretty good news.  I also talk about cart management and the parking lot at Costco, which I'm sure many of you can relate to.  Then I move on to a heartwarming story from 1993 that I did for the Scottsdale Progress newspaper where I photographed a young  girl named Kristi McCrey.   Kristi was born with Down Syndrome  and went on to compete in the Special Olympics eque...

Cutting the corner is more observations about humanity which annoy me on a daily basis.  I was going to talk about a photo project I did but I got caught up in keeping with my frustrations.  In this short podcast, I'm describing how absolutely rude people are unknowingly or perhaps on purpose with extreme entitlement that justifies there self centered attitude of I don't care about you.

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This episode is a fallow up to observations made when people seem to have know sense of spacial awareness.  In this podcast spacial awareness will be explained and how some people in society  have no sense of where they are or possibly could care less.  I'll leave it up to you if you think I'm crazy or you can relate with your own experiences.  At the end of the video I talk about Photography and some of my favorite You T...

This episode is about my involvement when witnessing three burglars who just committed a smash and grab jewel heist running from the Scottsdale Fashion Square Mall.   I coincidentally happened to be at the location where the three made their escape from the mall.  There was car a jacking at gun point, a high speed chase and a foot pursuit.  As a photojournalist at the time, I was in the right place at the right time but still strug...

This episode is a about my involvement in witnessing an accident where a young boy was pinned under a moving vehicle.  My actions may have saved his life!  As a result I was awarded the National Humanitarian Award by the National Press Photographers Association.  This event was shortly after Princess Diana's death when she was chased by paparazo.  When her vehicle crashed the paparazo continued to photograph her dying inside t...

This episode, I talk about finalizing an 8X10 contact print toned in coffee and my experience with the Mesa Art Center gallery show where they got my name wrong in the announcement  mailer advertising the show to the public. 

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Thank you for listening and help me grow this channel. Have a great day. Many of the photographs I talk about here are on Facebook: Brad Armstrong the Avatar picture is my wife and I with Smokey t...

This episode I talk about getting older and being judged by younger people.  How getting older has been an adjustment realizing I know longer blend in.  In the past 11 years the only young people I have spoken to are servers at restaurants.  My friend and I asked our most recent server how do you see us?  Do you see two grandpa's?  She said, she didn't think about, we are just people.   We asked why don't young peopl...