10/23/2026
Or at least, that’s how it feels sometimes.
I was chatting with friends about the videos we’ve made over the years, and it hit me. We’ve been on so many awesome photo adventures, but very few of them ever go get the attention we feel they deserve.
3 years ago, my friend Jonathan convinced us to drive 8 hours north to Sault Ste. Marie to go train spotting. On the surface, that sounds pretty boring: Sitting around for hours... waiting for a single train to pass by... hoping you time it perfectly and line it all up with the right camera settings to nail the shot.
But in the moment, it’s genuinely exciting. There’s a sense of urgency as you rush to your next photo spot where the train is crossing, work through a dozen different variations of camera settings, and decide which camera and which lens to use. Will it be your main camera? Will it be a drone? Will you have secondary angles with timers set up just in-case Every decision adds to the adrenaline.
The problem is, from a storytelling perspective, the video looks like just a bunch of guys standing around in a circle working through some impossible math problem. Fun for us, but the audience rarely experiences that same emotion.
We spent 3 days planning and driving around trying to get the perfect photo of this train. We’d miss it, try again, and miss it again. Then finally, it all came together. You get the shot, you share it, and... nobody cares.😆
..Or at least, the energy you put in doesn’t match the energy you get back. Either way, we accomplished our mission and came home with out photos.hese are the photos we captured. They tell a fun, funny, high-energy story that we’ll never forget.
So even if other people don’t care about your photos as much as you do, it’s still worth going on the adventure, taking the photos, and having a great time doing it.
📍Sault Ste Marie
