Welcome back. I'm glad to say that we're finally back with a new season of the

Candid Frame. We're happy to return to producing the show and sharing wonderful conversations

with exceptional photographers, as has always been our mission since 2006.

For those of you don't know, my family and I lost our home in the Eaton Fire in Southern California last January.

So suffice it to say the last several months have been a challenge and saying that would be an understatement.

But thankfully, with the kindness and support of family, friends and supporters, including many of you, we've begun the slow process of reclaiming our lives.

We're leasing a house in Pasadena, which provides much needed stability as we're leasing a house in Pasadena, which provides much-needed stability

as we start the slow process of rebuilding our home. You know, we can't thank you enough for your

kindness and support over the last several months. I can't imagine how we would have done so much

if it hadn't been for the outreach of so many people, some of whom I have never even met in person.

So I can't thank you enough.

This house's second bedroom is now my office slash studio.

And thanks to the many contributions of hundreds of individuals

and organizations, including Fujifilm USA, B&H photo, think tank photo and Los Angeles Center

of Photography, the Huntington Library, and countless others, we're back. And I'm so glad that I can return to these conversations

because it's definitely going to be one of the things that's going to help keep me sane

over the next couple of years. I reached out to my friend and fellow podcaster Jeffrey Sadoris

to help me run a test of my new setup

because I wanted to make sure that everything was working properly before I started,

you know, properly doing interviews. And it's, you know, usually the case when I sit down with

Jeffrey, we got into a deep conversation not only about the past several months that we've

experienced here,

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