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The Art Curious podcast is sponsored by Anchorlight. For more information about all of Anchorlight's artistic and creative endeavors,

please visit Anchorlightrolly.com. We are all photographers today. Practically everyone you know has a

smartphone, and with that phone access comes a pretty nice quality camera. And with a simple

click of a button and the addition of a little

filter here and a little crop there, we are all artists. Or at least we have the ability to be artists.

It's so funny to think that less than two decades ago, I was schlepping around carrying dozens,

dozens of roles of film on particularly picturesque vacations, just to be sure that I

had enough to cover me should the urge to capture a moment strike. It took up so much room in my

carry-ons, you guys, and that's not even including the camera itself and its sundry accessories.

Photography of a certain quality is easy today, and it's easy to take for granted.

It's pretty mind-blowing, though, to think of the birth of photography,

of the many scientific advances that led to the development of a medium

wherein we could freeze a moment of time onto a silvered plate or a plate of glass,

and finally onto paper.

It's further fascinating to think of the moment where a

photographer was able to make that next step, and to make those moments move again, unfreezing time,

and allowing for a scene to be recorded and played back again and again. This was an incredible

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