Jared Poland. Fro knows photo.com and welcome to a very special edition of Froano's Photo

Raw Talk, the interview edition, where I sit down with somebody in the photo industry or maybe

not even in the photo industry and have a conversation with them. And as you could tell from

the title of this video, I am sitting with Dixie Dixon today to ask her the

questions, the hard hitting questions, why did you leave Nikon, what was it all for, why did you

make the decisions? And also, I end up learning so much about her business acumen. She is an

unbelievable business person on top of being an amazing photographer. So if you ever

wanted to learn how Dixie went from just a person who liked taking photos to working her way

up and how she worked her way up, it is pretty fascinating. So I learned a lot throughout this

entire interview with her. And I think you guys will enjoy it as well.

Even if you didn't know who Dixie was, and you just found out about a few weeks ago,

you found out about her because you read that she was an ambassador for Nikon and then became

an explorer of light for Canon. And people are like, oh, she jumped ship. It had to be for the money.

It's not all about the money. We talk about all of that and she shares the reasons why she left Nikon. And even if you don't know who she is, you will after you listen to this interview. So here we go. Here is my interview with Dixie Dixon. All right, everybody, here we have Dixie Dixon at her new house.

Thus why she doesn't have her lighting set up yet. She's just dealing with window light.

And that's it. Welcome. Thank you. It's great to see you. It is great to be seen. It's nice to have you on. And I know people want, I know there's a lot of stuff that people want to know about when,

you know, I talked about you left Nikon and Canon stole you and all that stuff. And people are like,

I wonder why she left. It was the paycheck. And we'll talk about it all. You can say yes,

it's the paycheck. It's not the paycheck. There's reasons. We're going to, We're going to get into them. Do we want to just dive right into them or should we bury the lead and save it till later? What's one reason? We should bury the lead. Oh, you want to bury the lead? I'm just kidding. You want the dirt. I just, well, I like facts. I'm a big proponent of facts. I like that. Just understanding what goes

into a decision being made. And I equate it because there's people that were like,

there's multiple things that happen. And none of this is a slight at you. Right. There is,

who's Dixie Dixon? I don't know who she is. I don't listen to influencers or

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