HeyJaredMixed Tape: Pulses, Prose, and Pix
Essays on music, writing, and photography. Oh, don't forget the themed playlists!
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My Old Photos Look Better. But Are They Still Accurate? (opens the original)
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I got my first SLR film camera around age sixteen and went on to shoot thousands of photographs on slides and negatives. I was mostly teaching myself, and the results showed: underexposed frames, washed-out colors, and shots that weren’t quite in focus.A couple of months ago, I ran across a prompt to use with ChatGPT to restore old, faded photographs. I wanted to see how it would work on old photos that, without some sort of serendipitous intervention, would always remain poorly lit, have inaccu
It’s Starting to Feel Very Real (opens the original)
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My seventh decade has been fascinating.It became a decade of learning—and of going deeper into things I already knew something about: writing, photography, and music.I leaned particularly hard into photography and writing. I bought a DSLR in 2022, added a few lenses, stumbled into real estate photography, and somehow turned it into a profitable little business.Writing took a different path.For decades, I felt I had a novel in me. I just wasn’t sure how to get it out. I don’t need to rehash the j
Incense, Macrame and Bob Welch: Rediscovering a Forgotten Fleetwood Mac (opens the original)
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I suppose we all get nostalgic for certain times and places of our lives. For instance, I have a vague but fond memory of visiting some friends when I was around 20. This would have been 1975, and I clearly remember the incense in the couple’s home, the macrame plant hangers, the warm wood stove, the home made bread…and pawing through their album collection.So 70s!When visiting friends at that time of life, I always looked forward to uncovering the musical interests of other people, and seeing w
Things Around the House (opens the original)
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I was searching my brain for a photo topic. Then I got to looking at the various things around the house, and thought - voila! - I’ll just get out my camera, focus close on the bits and pieces, and see what happens.It was quite fun, and a good exercise in figuring out what to creep up on, as in, zoom in on.I took fifty photos in less than ten minutes. Here’s a look at some of them.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xhof!,f_auto,q_auto:good,
Digging into a Biography of Edward Abbey (opens the original)
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Epitaph for a Desert AnarchistJames Bishop, Jr.The Life and Legacy of Edward AbbeyI’m not sure who first alerted me to Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey’s meditation on his seasons as a park ranger at Arches National Monument near Moab in the 1950s, but whoever it was assured me that I’d love it.They were right.I did, and I’ve read it at least half a dozen times.Edward Abbey, though, never thought it was one of his bes
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