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I was just talking about terminal stuff and SSH and my other podcast just a little bit ago and I guess what I was going to say is how much about terminal do you know? Do you know any terminal tips? I was going to try one out today talking about it. It might be kind of tough. I'm sure that's what you're interested in listening to your Alexa right now. Wait, I mean Echo, was going to mention the commands if you go to your Mac or you go to a UNIX system, as it's probably going to run bash, I figure, like I'm going to mention, like I'm some expert, like I'm.
Definitely get you started would be the LS command in the born shell so the bash shell the LS command is like the list command so when you type in LS and then return what you're gonna have happen is it's gonna list the contents of the directory that you're currently in in text and command line oh man it's pretty excited you're gonna be turn and that's gonna move you to the directory of pictures then when you type in.
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I like I was saying I like the October time period you know it's kind of a cool outdoor month for stuff and that's kind of what I was going to talk about too is kind of layering up stuff for October I've been trying to kind of build up the the layers of clothes and the layers it's kind of way out the pluses and minuses at different pieces. And so I'm sure like it's probably the case that like the best gear is always the best gear is always the best gear. It's kind of interested.
Waterproof shell that I can like really trust has like a good hood on it that'll keep me dry for most of the day that along with them and I guess kind of like working inward like the puffy jacket makes a huge difference in that so I use like a puffy jacket all I'm able to I think you're kind of dealing with like above freezing temperatures it's really like pretty mild weather a lot of the time and if I'm going camping or doing something outdoors in the winter, oh well there's just a.
I definitely use it but really for a lot of like the three season work I do I use a light puffy jacket I have like this north face thermo thermo ball I think it's like a polyester based one it's not a downfilled puffy jacket but I've used that for maybe six years now and I really appreciate having that I think it's great and that's probably one of my most used insulating layers when I'm going out and I mean it works great.
It's pretty cool but kind of bearing that and I have like this Patagonia jacket that I think has like a heavier down fill rating and that has a lot of insulation to it which is cool warm jackets are great and I definitely take that out kind of in deeper into the winter but what I noticed though is that for a lot of is it going to be above freezing temperatures or below freezing.
Using where I'm in like lighter synthetic shorts and use like lighter layers and stuff like in the winter you kind of get to layer up and stuff which is also kind of fun sweater weather right so what I picked up last year and I'm kind of excited to put some more use into it was a pull it. But as I sort of understand now it's one of the more breatheable fabric and it would dry faster than other fabrics that they had available to them, I guess, is part of what was cool about it. But as I sort of understand now, it, it now, it's now, it's one, it's one, it's, it's one of, it's one of the more that now, it's one of, it's, it's one of the more it's now, it's one of, it's material that I'm using when I'm going out and doing some more outdoor stuff. And I guess it's because apparently back of the day cotton was a great revolution, right? There was a more breathable fabric and it would dry faster than other fabrics that they had available to them, I guess is part of what was cool about it.
About when you're in a survival situation. But yeah, when you're at camping, or if you're gonna go hunting, or if you're gonna go on a couple day photo trip in the woods and you're just gonna be living out of your truck and stuff, it kind of is, it ends up being a little difficult to use a lot of cotton pieces, especially if you're gonna get wet, or if it's cold and you don't want to get wet, I guess like a tough warm insulated car heart jacket is someone but hunting and that. They got into some wet snow on the second morning. Our heart, wet pants got, or the pants that were insulated got wet from the tall grass and brush.
That they became hypothermic because of their exposure to the cold that soaked through their pants that got them very cold and I think they had to like ditch the pants get into their sleeping bag that was synthetic and then they try to like warm them up with a hot water bottle in a sleeping bag or something like that out of the jet boil. But really like it ended their trip I think they like you can't continue out of that sort of stuff. So it's kind of interesting. I like that kind of that kind of thing can go and people have probably heard.
Or who knows what kind of weather you're going to get sort of circumstance where you go between hot and cold in Canada kayaking or canoeing down 1,100 miles or something like that. Just big, long trips like that and they would kind of be really specific about how they won't even have cotton boxers or cotton underwear because it'll be the thing that ends up being a problem. the best fire starter that I've used.
Well, I mean, yeah, stove or whatever. But if you're trying to light a fire in the winter, like having a plastic bag with Vaseline-dipped cotton swabs was like a pretty inert material to just like having a backpack doesn't smell like kerosene or something. And it has multiple uses. You can use it cosmetically for a number of things. Goodness, if you're lips chap, I hate it when it gets dry and cold and you go, oh, man, man, my pores can't handle it.
So, but yeah, I've heard of that, yeah, people try to not use that, people try to like drop their leather belts, like they won't take a leather belt out into the woods either. I like having like a sturdy belt. Like, well, you see like people like big leather boots or whatever, it's not because it gets waterlogged, but I guess because it's maybe a weight thing. I think that's what the idea was for, for maybe they're like going backpacking and use like a piece of nylon webbing as a belt at that time.
Or I guess this polyester insulating foams you get like those thermal insulating foam bits that would be in the pouches of another polyester material that makes up like the puffy jacket that I wear for the Patagonia one that's a downfilled puffy jacket you have little goose feathers poking out of it all the time too. Yeah I feel like you feel around the right way a little goose it's like light and it scrunches down well and if you get it wet you can get it dry again.
Qualities it down sometimes that kind of get I think it's a little tricky but the wool I guess you can get you can have get wet you'll stay warm and you can get it dry faster and I think that's sort of the benefit of the wool on the animal that gets wet too you know like you think about a sheep getting rained on all the time I guess it's sort of part of the fiber is that it doesn't it doesn't attract a lot of odor.
Make you cold when it gets wet. I guess that's a big part of it. So a lot of the marina wool fabrics that have come out or the marina wool blends that are with some little bit of spandex or some other kind of natural fiber product they try and put in helps it kind of be a little bit more durable when they have those little like a canvas jacket that kind of thing is cool is cool but that's sort of a different look a different look at a different look and.
To pack in a bunch of stuff. They probably still use gear that's similar to that without the kind of like the technical synthetic gear that you try and find it like REI hiking places or something or wherever whatever else similarly branded. But yeah it's cool trying to do some wool merino under layers trying to work with those puffy puffy jacket and then have the Gorex layer the north face kind of warm you know like warmer temperature rated puffy jacket and then have the Gortex layer over that. Pied up a hat this year.
A pair of heavy leather boots that are super cool for some of the deeper hiking stuff that you get into, especially after it's really wet and rainy and stuff, but really for a lot of the light season and then I also picked up a mid upper ankle there and so it's not like a real tall I think it's not like a good bit of treading you can get wet, get them dry, get them wet. I think they're kind of made for an okay dry environment. That's where that's sort of where I'm.
Like just like they're a pound each you know you kind of like feel it the first couple days you're you're getting back into the use of them during the season where you're like man my feet are like four pounds heavier it seems like each you're just I like to talk about like those you know thick like a two inch heel or something that like one of those whites boots has or if you get like red wings they have like a real deep.
Eel on it that you can use to kind of stomp in and cut in on some hiking stuff. And for these, yeah, it's just kind of like a good, a good sort of smooth walking boot. And you get some ankle support from that tall neck, but it's sort of a fabric, so that it really seems like it's a light boot, and it's a light boot, and it seems like the I think, I think these underarmour ones, though are, and I think there are, I've kind of run into a few circumstances.
If you're hiking a lie, you gotta watch out for blisters and stuff too. One of the big things I've noticed to help out is like really breaking in your shoes with three weeks or more, and stuff. But yeah, it seems like it takes about three weeks to sort of get those shoes broken into a spot that ends up being comfortable for longer trips and longer wear. I had like a pair of chocos. Oh man, those chocos, they were great, you don't wear socks, you don't like buffer it with wool socks with wool socks or.
Rubber of that foot or the shoe. But once you get that all kind of broken in, I was able to hike for miles, miles in those and really have no rub problems at all. at all the Teton's trip that I talked about sometimes. Yeah, I did that whole hiking trip with the Teton's in early mid-late September, probably right around now. But I did that trip in the Teton's with just those black chachos that I had like that boot tread bottom. And I did great for that whole trip.
Their shoes just like really start to bite in on them and it happens really fast as soon as you get like a a hot spot or something it can be just a mile or another mile and then like that that problem has been exacerbated a lot so as soon as like gets bad boom man gets bad fat or it starts to degrade fast and then once it's gone it's gone on for a while you know so it's bad and it can cause some mobility problems when you're out there so I think kind of deal with some of that stuff or kind of that stuff or kind of breaking them in.
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But the holidays was kind of an interesting time because I ended up sort of thinking a lot about what what photographs are you know I'm getting a little bit older now and I think there's there's sort of like a change in the vision that I have of the way that I kind of think about photographs or you know what what is their purpose why are we making them in a big way like I sort of notice this and even in my own image is this super sharp, super.
Perfect or really edited or really meaningful and dramatic in these images and what I'm noticing a little bit especially as I review my older images is that the photographs that I'm really drawn to they're the photographs that represent the truth more they're the photographs that kind of have I don't know what it is really but they have a little.
That makes it sort of feel like a different look or a different image than like what we'd see midday at noon if we looked at the same thing. So I think that's definitely still part of photography but one thing I was noticed through the holidays and through reviewing a bunch of my old photographs it seems like an obvious point or it seems like everyone should know but really there's a huge amount of value in the photographs because they capture something at the time that it was and you get to hold on.
On the image creation or on the product making something that's kind of crisp and sharp and perfectly usable today I don't know if I was thinking so clearly about how the nostalgia factor or how the the value of something you know from a family or just sort of a small I really want to try and show more of that and which moments to capture and which ways you're going to be able to share that stuff in the future.
Or just a way of kind of knowing, oh, this was part of my life. Wow, that's really cool. So I've been trying to think about some of those ideas around photography for the new year a little bit. But along with that, I've been going through the last like 15 years of photos in my big super catalog, that collection of lightroom photos I made that's kind of trying to pull in every phone photo, every phone video, the images that I kind of want to keep from. examines that are kind of irrelevant to me for this sort of, for this sort of. for this sort of, for this sort of, for this sort of future moving forward catalog of stuff. I want to get rid of like product photos or work photos that are hundreds and thousands of photos even kind of fill up space and memory in the catalog. I'll keep those definitely.
But those will be backed up on another hard drive but what's active to me what's in my library currently I want to be like the last I think I've talked about this before like the last two years or so of photos and whole in total so I can get back to that library and edit any one of those raw files I have but for stuff that's older than two years like 2015 it was really cool that going through the old photos and you just kind of do in this pretty quick way.
All the three star photos all the that's kind of like I would pick this photo and sort of put it under review and then and then my system at least is a little bit of the four star five star zone that's for this is going to be published or this is going into the portfolio or as content sort of thing so yeah I'm gonna try and push on that stuff a bit more and get some against what we know now in like modern LED retina display monitors like Apple puts out or like any kind of modern LED.
More color it accurate monitor that we have now but I was looking at it and there's like the it's just so muddy there's there's so few colors that it can really represent so you have to push things a little further out of gamut or at least I did at the time kind of not understanding what I was compensating to so I look back at some of these photos and go oh I would never make it this yellow and green in a modern world so it's kind of whatever you know whatever was going on or whatever I was thinking about at the time visually that sort of sort of sort of.
Something instead of trying to go out with you know a set intention of that which you should or could in any set of photos but if I just go out and am shooting what I am drawn to the photographs that I capture and get and the way that I kind of perceive what they look like and how I want to show them to people that's all kind of changed to be a photographer where it was editing to select like a moment and character and.
Photography was sort of thinking about it like that like I'm capturing data of a reality and then that's going to be processed in to something else later and it wasn't really for years until I understood little little billy out here and nowhere we'll live at Valley so yeah that's some of the stuff by anybody that's really trying just self-taught, little little Billy out here in nowhere we'll land at valley. So yeah that's some of the stuff about making selects.
All pretty cool. But yeah, check it out at Billy Newman, a photo. Thanks a lot for listening to this episode of the podcast. Talk to you next time.