Life Between the Poles
Welcome to Life Between the Poles. This is a podcast about Photography and my obsessive hyper focused observations of humanity and how it intersects in my life. I'm a retired photojournalist and commercial photographer spanning 35 years but I do continue to shoot personal work with multiple digital and analog cameras. With this podcast their will be content that has nothing to do with photography but has every thing to do with how I interpret daily life around me. This podcast also has nothing to do with football goal posts but does deal with the glass half full and the glass half empty and everything in between. Thank You for listening!
Episodes
16 episodes
Mortaring Bowling Ball's and the Golden Eagle
I talk about the newspaper photo assignment photographing Liberty Wildlifes releasing a rehabbed Golden Eagle back into the wild. While driving on a primitive road looking for the wild life group I mistakenly drove into a camp of heavily ...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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20:51
Introducing my Blog
In this episode I introduce my friends and listeners to my new blog bradarmstrong.blog. I talk briefly about how Instagram has turned into a mini TikTok. It's video and advertising. There still is good photography on Instagra...
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Episode 15
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14:14
The No Man Goes to Santa Monica
We drove over to Santa Monica from Phoenix for a few reasons. One to have our wedding blessed by a Catholic Priest which created quite a bit of anxiety on my part with the usual response of "No" I'm not doing that. But, I always giv...
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Episode 14
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32:24
The Moaner and Photojournalism
In this episode I give my usual update of my triggers at the gym then I go into few interesting personal stories of extraordinary assignments and projects I covered as a newspaper photojournalist.
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Episode 13
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23:00
Street Photography Defined
I've been doing some but learning more about the craft of Street Photography by reading books and watching YouTube documentaries on various photographers old and new about their methods for moving through the public space capturing humanity.&nb...
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Episode 12
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28:10
Circle of Life
This episode is about the Circle of Life where we lost two very close people in our families lives and we had the birth of a third grandson.
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Episode 11
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16:54
Mr. Winky and the Utilty Closet
This episode describes my calamity with kidney stone surgery and my experience at the company Christmas Party that immediately followed my medical proceedure.
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Episode 10
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19:54
Cart Management and Kristi McCrey
This episode updates us on a few triggers from the gym with pretty good news. I also talk about cart management and the parking lot at Costco, which I'm sure many of you can relate to. Then I move on to a heartwarming story from 199...
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Episode 9
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22:44
Cutting the Corner
Cutting the corner is more observations about humanity which annoy me on a daily basis. I was going to talk about a photo project I did but I got caught up in keeping with my frustrations. In this short podcast, I'm describing how a...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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13:16
Man on the Phone
This episode is a fallow up to observations made when people seem to have know sense of spacial awareness. In this podcast spacial awareness will be explained and how some people in society have no sense of where they are or possibl...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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20:03
Smash and Grab Jewel Heist
This episode is about my involvement when witnessing three burglars who just committed a smash and grab jewel heist running from the Scottsdale Fashion Square Mall. I coincidentally happened to be at the location where the three made the...
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Episode 6
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21:35
Humanitarian Award
This episode is a about my involvement in witnessing an accident where a young boy was pinned under a moving vehicle. My actions may have saved his life! As a result I was awarded the National Humanitarian Award by the National Pres...
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Episode 5
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20:53
Mesa Art Center and Brad Anderson
This episode, I talk about finalizing an 8X10 contact print toned in coffee and my experience with the Mesa Art Center gallery show where they got my name wrong in the announcement mailer advertising the show to the public.
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Episode 4
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12:34
Young People and Getting Older
This episode I talk about getting older and being judged by younger people. How getting older has been an adjustment realizing I know longer blend in. In the past 11 years the only young people I have spoken to are servers at restau...
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Episode 3
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18:34
Small Prints and DDS's Retirement Party
I talk about the fun I've been having making small silver gelatin prints in my darkroom. When I say small I'm talking 7 by 5 inch prints from 6X9 negatives. They are beautiful and so much easier to print and a penny saver for sure...
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Episode 2
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13:34