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FroKnowsPhoto Photography Podcasts

Why I Started

FroKnowsPhoto Photography Podcasts

Jared Polin

Visual Arts, Arts

4.4831 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

This morning I sat down and wrote out a little explanation on "Why I Started".

I hope it gives you some insight into the past seven and a half years. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

I want to wish you all a happy Thanksgiving on this Thanksgiving Day 2017, so it is November 23rd, 2017.

0:08.2

Now, this morning, I sat down and I wrote something, and it's called Why I Started, and I posted it on

0:15.3

Facebook, but I also thought it would be a good idea if I read it here as a podcast so that you guys could hear the

0:22.3

story as well. So this is something that would have scared my younger self, say in second grade,

0:28.0

actually reading something in front of people, though you guys aren't actually in front of me.

0:32.5

You are somewhere around the world listening to this, and I truly appreciate the fact that you

0:37.3

are doing

0:38.1

that. So I'm going to read it here. Hopefully I don't make too many mistakes, but I may. And let's just

0:44.3

get into it. So why I started. Almost eight years ago, I started working on an idea that would

0:50.2

later become known as Fro No's photo. At first, I didn't have a name for what I wanted to do.

0:56.1

I knew I wanted to do something online, but didn't know what to call it. I sat in front of a domain

1:01.6

purchasing site and started typing out ideas for web addresses. At first, they were generic

1:06.7

thoughts, generic names, and I didn't like any of them. Mind you, I already had the Fro for close to

1:13.0

three years. My fingers started to type and what came out next was the Fro No's photo. Yep,

1:20.9

it had the in front of Frohnows photo until I realized that it would be much cooler and probably

1:26.6

less confusing without the the.

1:29.3

I purchased both domain names instantly.

1:32.3

I didn't ask anyone for their opinion.

1:34.3

It felt right to me, so I went with it.

1:38.3

But the big question is that I get all the time is why did I decide to start making photo-related videos to post on YouTube?

1:46.0

The quick and simple answer is to help new photographers take better photos.

1:50.0

I wanted to help people who just got their first camera or who've had one for a while, but were not happy with the results.

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