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10/13/2026

I built an app that critiques your photos.

Not a thumbs-up. An actual critique, the kind you’d get from a mentor standing next to you. Upload a shot and it tells you what’s working, what isn’t, and why. Ask it why and it answers. Push back and it holds its ground. Make the edit, send it back, and it grades the difference.

Then it gives you one thing to go shoot next, and it remembers what you’ve been working on, so the feedback gets sharper the longer you use it.

The voice you hear is an AI built on my own teaching. I say that up front because I think it matters.

It’s called Cadre. It’s on iPhone and Android now, free while we test, and I need photographers to break it.

So tell me: what’s the one photo you’d want graded? Drop it in the comments and I’ll pick a few.

Link in bio. cadre.photos/beta

10/09/2026

The moment vs. the shot. I was lying at the waterline in Svalbard when this walrus started swimming toward me. He didn’t stop at the shallows either. He hauled himself up and walked right up to me, close enough that I could hear him breathing. I’ve spent a lot of time around wildlife, and this is one of the encounters I’ll remember for the rest of my life. Then two of his friends came over too, and I got the frame

10/03/2026

Part 2. 🎧 Remember those hyenas screaming outside my tent? This is what they were after — a young bull elephant that died of natural causes. In the Chobe, nothing goes to waste. 🔊 Sound on. What would you have done hearing this outside your tent at 2am?

ISO 10,000. At night. Swipe to the 100% crop before you decide how you feel about that.Most of us were taught to fear hi...
09/30/2026

ISO 10,000. At night. Swipe to the 100% crop before you decide how you feel about that.

Most of us were taught to fear high ISO — keep it low, underexpose, “fix it later.” That’s backwards. Noise lives in the shadows, and when you drag a dark file up in post, you drag the noise up with it. Expose the subject properly, even if the number looks scary, and the file holds up.

Why so red? We lit this leopard with a red spotlight. Red light is far less disruptive to nocturnal animals than white, so we can watch without pushing it off its kill. Everything records deep magenta, and one white balance correction in Lightroom brings the real color back. The animal comes first. The color comes back in post.

600mm · 1/160 · f/4.5 · ISO 10,000

What’s the highest ISO you’ll actually shoot? Be honest 👇
Save this for your next night drive, and send it to the friend who won’t go past 3200.

09/19/2026

1am. Botswana. Dead silence — then a sound I couldn’t place, right outside my tent. Not the laugh you know from cartoons. Something else. Something that kept me awake till dawn wondering what was happening out there in the dark. So when the sun came up, I followed the noise. What I found is part 2. Trust me on this one..

Swipe: reality at normal speed, then reality slowed way down. Same sunrise, same spot. Two minutes of exposure buys you ...
09/16/2026

Swipe: reality at normal speed, then reality slowed way down. Same sunrise, same spot. Two minutes of exposure buys you a version of the Tetons nobody actually sees — and on a June morning this calm, standing there for it wasn’t exactly a hardship.

Cruising up to 82° north in Svalbard was a challenge — hard to believe these bears do it year-round and call it home. I’...
09/14/2026

Cruising up to 82° north in Svalbard was a challenge — hard to believe these bears do it year-round and call it home. I’ve still got 10,000 photos to go through from this trip, plus the trips I’m on now. Not sure I’ll ever catch up. But this was one I loved, from an encounter I won’t forget.

09/05/2026

Since last summer’s trip to Svalbard I’ve wanted exactly this: a puffin head-on, loaded with fish, wings up. Easy to imagine, hard to shoot — they’re small, fast, and never fly where you want. I missed it dozens of times before this pass. Then for a fraction of a second it all lined up, sharp enough to count the sand eels.
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The mother tree.At Brooks Falls, sows stash their cubs at this spruce before heading to the river to fish. It’s the safe...
09/02/2026

The mother tree.

At Brooks Falls, sows stash their cubs at this spruce before heading to the river to fish. It’s the safest spot in the neighborhood — and apparently also the best playground. These two kept themselves thoroughly entertained until mom came back with dinner.

Daycare, bear style.

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