Jared Polan Froano's Photo.com and welcome to episode number 261 of the Not So Daily Fro where I sit down sometime, sometime and share what's on my mind with you and you can share what's on your mind with me by calling or texting 267-4546376. That is the text and voicemail line. I am still figuring out what I want to do when it comes to

podcasting. Do I want to do it daily? Obviously no, because I just don't want to sound like I'm

complaining nonstop and just doing like a short podcast, but I need to stop worrying and just do what

I'm going to do because that's why we're here.

I have a couple of different topics to talk about today.

I've got something to talk about my local neighborhood.

We've got a friend of mine who is not a photographer but has a camera and picked up a,

ooh, a heavy, nice chunk of change doing Instagram photos for a company.

And then I want to finish up talking about the 14 to 30 versus the 14 to 242.8 Nikon.

And my thoughts on that.

So first things first.

I live in an interesting neighborhood that 15, 20 years ago, you probably weren't walking

down the streets because it wasn't exactly

the safest of areas. Well, now that it's really blown up, it's freaking insane what's going on.

So there's a lot of businesses coming in and a lot of the businesses that are here or

coming in have been local businesses. But as an area grows and companies start to look to move in,

you start to get the change. You start to get something like a Starbucks wanting to move in

and be in the main neighborhood. Now, I'm in a place called Fish Town. Now, Fish Town is kind of like

Brooklyn was maybe 20 years ago.

It's on the up and coming or the overcoming. It's already here, basically. So we have all the

coffee shops and the restaurants. We've got amazing food in the neighborhood. We've got amazing music.

We've got art. We've got hipsters. We've got old people. We've got people with kids. There's a lot of stuff going on in the neighborhood. And there's a bunch of coffee shops high end. You've got La Cologne, which was local. The first one was in Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. And now their home office is in Fishtown as well. It's a massive, basically a massive coffee shop where they have their offices and facilities,

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