This episode is brought to you by mother earth! In all seriousness, this episode centers on my incredible conversation with Ben Horne, a full-time nature photographer based in California. Ben uses large format film and takes us along on his popular YouTube channel. His channel, by the way, may be the oldest dedicated landscape photo channel on the web. Keeping with the nature theme, I just returned from a few days in the far north shooting images and video of owls and other wildlife for work. I was able to rent a Leica SL2-S to complement my SL-2. As a result, I can compare and contrast them f ..read more

I am so pleased to publish Part 2 of my wonderful conversation with David Bickley. David is a Leica Ambassador, a Leica Akademie Instructor, and a staff member at Leica DC. David is a great conversationalist, an innovator, and a creative powerhouse. We have a great conversation about the history and venerability of the Leica brand, about David's love of the M10-D, and about the struggle of creativity. You can learn all about David and his work here: https://www.davidbickley.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dbtakesdc/ Buy your stuff from Leica DC! https://us.leica-camera.com/Stores-Dea ..read more

I am so pleased to finally publish my wonderful conversation with David Bickley. David is a Leica Ambassador, a Leica Akademie Instructor, and a staff member at Leica DC. David is a great conversationalist, an innovator, and a creative powerhouse. We have a great conversation about the history and venerability of the Leica brand, about David's love of the M10-D, and about the struggle of creativity. We also open with some listener messages and feedback and why I am happy to accept my first 1-star review ;) You can learn all about David and his work here: https://www.davidbickley.com/ Instagram ..read more

This episode is something new. I’m calling it straight out of camera because it’s essentially whatever comes to my mind, with hardly an edit in sight. This is the real me. This episode I talk about a wide variety of topics in a short amount of time (well, a relatively short amount of time for me anyway). Please let me know what you think! My objective is to fill in some of the blanks between interviews and more formally structured episodes, just to make sure I’m sharing and staying in touch with you. In this episode we hear from a UK listener, Chris, whose experience is much like my own. We al ..read more

This interview has been a long time coming. I am proud to speak with my friend Tayler Chaparelle, an EMT based in South Carolina. Tayler's incredible story resonated with me the first time she bravely emailed me months and months ago. After a bout with PTSD, Tayler struggled with depression and found her way out with her camera. Now, she is on the verge of owning her first Leica, a Leica Q2. It only took her 650 hours of overtime to get it! Tayler is a special soul and I know you will enjoy meeting her. My episode 11 images: https://zacharybranigan.com/portfolio-3/episode-11-images Learn mor ..read more

This is part 2 of the first on-air interview for the Like A New Day Podcast and we couldn't be happier that we had the exciting, thoughtful, talented, and funny Justin Mott as our guest. Based in Vietnam, Justin has one of the most interesting resumes you will find in the field. A former presenter on a History Channel show about photography, a working photographer with more than 100 assignments for the New York Times to his credit, and the owner of a production company, Justin has a lot to teach us. He also shoots assignments and professional work, as well as his passion project "Kindred Guard ..read more

This is the first on-air interview for the Like A New Day Podcast and we couldn't be happier that we had the exciting, thoughtful, talented, and funny Justin Mott as our guest. Based in Vietnam, Justin has one of the most interesting resumes you will find in the field. A former presenter on a History Channel show about photography, a working photographer with more than 100 assignments for the New York Times to his credit, and the owner of a production company, Justin has a lot to teach us. He also shoots assignments and professional work, as well as his passion project "Kindred Guardians," wit ..read more

This episode is all about virtual contact sheets in Lightroom and the fact that what we are seeing when we scroll through there are mostly the thousands of images that did not make the cut! In other words, you are surrounding yourself with your "failures" and we should let ourselves off the hook for them. We also talk about LED lights in a very unscientific way, and how we can use them for both video and still photos with great success, especially with mirrorless cameras. Finally, I stumble wildly through a terrible description of the terms APO and ASPH in camera lenses. All about aspheric len ..read more

We all have limitations as photographers, and in this episode I explore my own. With vision impairment resulting from an accident many years ago, I struggle with maintaining binocular vision and struggle with double vision when I don’t wear my coke bottle glasses. I am also a left eye dominant shooter. These two issues conspired to make it nearly impossible to shoot an analog rangefinder, as I found out after acquiring my dream camera, the Leica M10-D. Thankfully, Leica DC came to my rescue and let me swap out the D for the amazing Leica SL2, and I am never looking back. Thanks, David. I refer ..read more

Have you ever had your images purchased or published? Have you ever used your day job to leverage your photography career or hobby? I sure have. I will talk about my publication recent history as an amateur enthusiast photographer and how I got there on my own, and with help from my career in the nonprofit world. I will also go over a series of listener messages, talk about my favorite podcast, and explore my own stumbling, bumbling pathway to shooting fully manual and working with a Leica M10-D. I refer to content creators in this episode. Here they are: Neale James Podcast: https://www.photo ..read more