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  • The Snap Spot Podcast Episode 6: Thoughtful Thursday: I choose what I can or cannot control

    The Snap Spot Podcast Episode 6: Thoughtful Thursday: I choose what I can or cannot control

    A man sitting on a fallen tree trunk near a riverbank, surrounded by green grass and trees with budding leaves.

    Pip: Robert Snap Spot — where the photography is sharp and the philosophy hits you right between the eyes on a Thursday.

    Mara: Today we’re looking at a piece from Robert J Jr. that sits at the intersection of mindset and daily practice — specifically, the idea of choosing what you engage with and what you let go.

    Pip: Let’s start with that question of control.

    Text graphic stating 'Control the things you can control' in bold letters.

    Thoughtful Thursday: Choosing What You Engage With

    Pip: The core tension here is one most people sidestep — not because they don’t care, but because it’s uncomfortable. What can you actually control, and what are you burning energy on that was never yours to manage?

    Mara: The post anchors itself to a Brian Tracy quote, and it’s worth reading directly: “You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.”

    An infographic illustrating the concept of control. It is divided into two sections: 'In My Control' and 'Out of My Control.' The 'In My Control' section includes items like 'My thoughts & actions,' 'My boundaries,' 'The goals I set,' 'How I speak to myself,' 'What I give my energy to,' and 'How I handle challenges.' The 'Out of My Control' section includes items like 'The past,' 'The future,' 'The actions of others,' 'The opinions of others,' 'What happens around me,' and 'What other people think of me.'

    Pip: That word — mastering — is doing real work there. It reframes the whole equation. You’re not surrendering to what happens; you’re deciding who’s in charge of the response.

    Mara: And the post keeps that framing deliberately light. The opening is almost disarmingly casual — “Ok, It really is not that hard. Relax.” That’s not dismissiveness; it’s an invitation to lower your defenses before the idea lands.

    Pip: Which is actually a pretty sophisticated move dressed up as a shrug.

    Mara: The closing line, “Now let’s live life to the fullest,” lands differently once you’ve sat with the Tracy quote. It’s not a bumper sticker — it’s a logical conclusion. If you’ve stopped fighting what you can’t control, you’ve freed up something.

    Pip: Freed up attention, freed up energy — the practical upshot is that the attitude shift Tracy describes isn’t just philosophical, it’s almost logistical.

    Mara: The post pairs the reflection with photography, which fits the Thoughtful Thursday format. The image work and the words are doing the same thing — asking you to look at something ordinary and decide how you want to see it.

    Pip: That’s the habit underneath the habit, isn’t it — the practice of choosing your frame, literally and otherwise.

    Mara: The throughline today is really about agency — not over events, but over response.

    Pip: Small reframe, large consequence. More of that next time.

    Graphic illustration of several vintage cameras, some with light effects, arranged in a row.

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  • The Snap Spot Podcast Episode 5: Healing the Planet

    The Snap Spot Podcast Episode 5: Healing the Planet

    Hands holding dark, rich soil with dirt on the fingers and palms, with a green plant in the background.

    Pip: Robert’s Snap Spot is where a phone camera and a poem can carry more environmental weight than a summit communiqué.

    Mara: Today we’re looking at work from Robert J Jr. — specifically a post where nature photography and poetry meet to ask who actually heals the planet, and how.

    Pip: Let’s start with that question.

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    Healing the Planet

    Mara: This post arrives as part of Cellpic Sunday — a regular feature pairing iPhone photography with a broader theme. Here the theme is global environmental responsibility, and the framing question is pointed: who actually does the healing, and where does it happen?

    Pip: The post anchors on a poem by Alfred K. LaMotte, and it does not flatter the powerful. The setup is a direct challenge to top-down thinking: “This planet will not be healed by powerful politicians in big cities who spend trillions on a global strategy that never quite begins.”

    Mara: What that means in practice is a full redirect of where environmental hope is supposed to live. Not in institutions. Not in summits. The poem moves the camera — if you’ll forgive the metaphor — all the way down to the backyard.

    Pip: And LaMotte is specific about what that looks like. Villagers who sing. Backyard gardeners. People who “walk more slowly right here” and “feel the green through bare soles.” The scale collapses from global strategy to bare feet on soil, and somehow that feels more credible than the alternative.

    Mara: There’s also something deliberate in the pairing of medium and message. The photographs are taken with an iPhone 15 Pro Max — consumer technology, personal scale — and the subjects are flowers, nature, the immediate and local. The tool matches the argument the poem is making.

    Pip: A trillion-dollar climate accord and a backyard gardener both reach for the same goal, and only one of them is apparently getting anywhere.

    Mara: The poem closes on “awakening the heirloom seeds of the heart” — which pulls the environmental frame into something more interior. Healing the planet, in LaMotte’s reading, starts with something cultivated inside people before it shows up in soil.

    Pip: So the post is doing two things at once: it’s a photography showcase and a quiet argument that presence, attention, and small human acts are the actual mechanism of change.

    Mara: And the images carry that argument without captioning it — flowers, light, the immediate world at close range.

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    Mara: The local and the personal as the real site of change — that’s a thread worth following.

    Pip: Next time, on the Snap Spot, we’ll see where it leads.

    Graphic illustration of several vintage cameras, some with light effects, arranged in a row.

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  • The Snap Spot Podcast Episode 3: Tattoo Photography: Written on my Heart (and) Back

    The Snap Spot Podcast Episode 3: Tattoo Photography: Written on my Heart (and) Back

    Pip: Robert’s Snap Spot is where a camera — or in today’s case, an iPhone 4 — becomes a way of reading people, places, and the stories they carry on their skin.

    Mara: Robert J Jr. brings us into tattoo culture this episode, exploring how ink on the body becomes a form of personal history. Let’s start with what it means to photograph something that was never meant to be decoration.

    Tattoo Photography: Written on the Skin

    Pip: The premise of this segment is a real question: what does it take to photograph a tattoo and have the image carry the same weight as the art itself — not just document it, but honor it?

    Mara: The post frames tattoo culture as something layered and intentional, and it opens with a quote from Walter Curlewis Photography: “Your body is a canvas, and your tattoos are the story painted on it.”

    Pip: That framing shifts the whole project. If the body is a canvas, then photographing a tattoo isn’t portraiture and it isn’t product photography — it’s something closer to documenting a living artwork with its own biography.

    Mara: The New Orleans back tattoo captured here is the concrete example. Shot on an iPhone 4, it’s a reminder that the gear is almost beside the point when the subject has that kind of presence.

    Pip: An iPhone 4, for the record, is old enough to have its own origin story — which feels appropriate given the subject matter.

    Mara: The post pairs that image with a second line: “Ink runs deeper than skin — it tells the story of the soul.” That’s the emotional argument the whole series is building toward. Tattoo Photography: Written on my Heart (and) Back isn’t treating ink as aesthetic. It’s treating it as autobiography.

    Pip: And photographing autobiography requires a different kind of attention — you’re not just composing a shot, you’re being trusted with someone’s history.

    Mara: That’s what the Tattoo Series as a whole seems to be after: not a catalog of designs, but a record of why people choose to write on themselves permanently.

    Pip: Which makes New Orleans a fitting place to start — a city that has never been shy about wearing its own story out loud.

    Mara: The images and the quotes together make the case that the camera, whatever camera, is just the tool. The subject is always the meaning underneath.

    Pip: Skin as autobiography, New Orleans as backdrop — there’s a whole archive of untold stories in a single frame.

    Mara: Next time, more of what the city and the people in it choose to show.

    Graphic illustration of several vintage cameras, some with light effects, arranged in a row.

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  • The Snap Spot Podcast Episode 2: My Lens, Your Focus.

    The Snap Spot Podcast Episode 2: My Lens, Your Focus.

    Pip: Robert’s Snap Spot — where the camera is always within reach and the cats are never far from the frame.

    Mara: Today we’re digging into a post from Robert J Jr. that doubles as a personal manifesto — what drives someone to photograph, who they are behind the lens, and what they’re inviting you to see.

    Pip: Let’s start with the lens itself — and the person holding it.

    My Lens, Your Focus

    Pip: This post isn’t a gallery or a tutorial. It’s an introduction — a statement of who Robert is and what he’s asking you to notice when you look at his work.

    Mara: He sets the stakes plainly right at the top: “tell my story though pictures, and if you look closely, you will see your story too.”

    Pip: That’s the whole premise. The photographs aren’t just his — they’re a mirror. If he does his job, you recognize something of yourself in what he’s captured.

    Mara: And the life behind the lens is substantial. Twenty-three years in the Army, four tours in Iraq, Kosovo, Somalia — he’s seen the world in ways most people haven’t, and he names “joy is the true measure of success” as the lesson that stuck.

    Pip: Which reframes every photo he posts. This isn’t someone shooting for likes. It’s someone who’s earned a particular relationship with what a good moment looks like.

    Mara: He’s also specific about what delights him — cats named Benny and Boopers, Sci-Fi, comics, antiques, music on an iPhone. The list reads like a personality, not a résumé.

    Pip: Fair warning: he does promise a plethora of cat photos, and that is not a word he’s using loosely.

    Mara: He wraps with a direct invitation — pick up a camera or an iDevice and take some photos. The blog isn’t meant to be consumed passively. It’s a nudge.

    Pip: Art in more places than a museum. That’s the line that earns the whole post its title.

    Mara: Exactly — “you will agree that there is art in more places than what’s just in a museum.” That’s the underlying argument of Robert’s Snap Spot as a project, not just this one post.

    Pip: Joy as the measure of success, a camera as the tool — that’s a quiet but sturdy philosophy.

    Mara: Next time, more of what the lens finds. Stay close.

    Graphic illustration of several vintage cameras, some with light effects, arranged in a row.

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  • The Snap Spot Podcast Episode 1: Aperture, Your View of My World

    The Snap Spot Podcast Episode 1: Aperture, Your View of My World

    Pip: Robert’s Snap Spot — where the aperture is wide open and so is the welcome mat.

    Mara: Today we’re covering Robert J Jr.’s introduction to the site — who he is, what gear he shoots with, and what the whole project is actually about. Let’s start with the lens he’s using to frame everything: aperture, and what it means for how he’s sharing his world.

    Aperture, Your View of My World

    Pip: The title does real work here — aperture isn’t just a camera term, it’s the organizing metaphor for the entire site. The question is: what does it actually mean to open up a photography journey to an audience, and where does this one begin?

    Mara: The post frames it directly: “Like the opening of a lens to allow light in, I am opening up — exposing if you will, the depth of — my world of photography and my journey through photos to you, my fellow photog enthusiasts.”

    Pip: So this isn’t a gear review or a tutorial. It’s an invitation — the site is the journey itself, shared in real time with people who already love the craft.

    Mara: And the journey has a clear arc. It starts with a Sony Cyber-shot and a FUJI FinePix, moves through a Nikon D3200 and a Canon Rebel SLR1, and lands in 2026 on a Canon EOS R100. Mobile has kept pace — from an iPhone 8 Plus to a 15 Pro Max, and from an older iPad Air to the current iPad Pro M4, which he specifically calls out for video and photo editing.

    Pip: That progression from entry-level DSLRs to a mirrorless Canon and a tablet that could edit a feature film is a pretty honest map of how photography obsessions tend to evolve.

    Mara: He’s candid about the learning curve too: “I can’t say I’m a Nikon man nor Canon fan because I like both. So far on my journey into photography land I’ve learned I have lots more to learn.” That’s the spirit the whole site seems to be built on — curiosity over expertise.

    Pip: And the shooting philosophy matches: not one careful frame, but every angle, every close-up, the whole scene.

    Mara: Exactly — “I love taking photos of everything. I always have. And not just one photo — I need to take every angle and close-ups too.” The site is that instinct, documented.

    Pip: Wide aperture, deep field — sounds like a site worth following into whatever gets snapped next.

    Mara: The gear will keep evolving. The curiosity clearly won’t. Next episode, more from the Snap Spot.

    Graphic illustration of several vintage cameras, some with light effects, arranged in a row.

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  • Aperture, Your View of My World

    Aperture, Your View of My World

     Blogger’s Life – Motivational – Snap Spot

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    Aperture: the adjustable opening inside a camera lens, which controls both the exposure of an image and its depth of field.

    Like the opening of a lens to allow light in,

    Seven Canon EF 50mm lenses arranged in a row with varying aperture blades from f/16 to f/22

    I am opening up (exposing if you will) the depth of my world of photography and my journey through photos to you, my fellow photog enthusiasts!

    Illustration of vintage cameras arranged in a row, with some cameras featuring a lightbulb or cube on top.

    I can’t say I’m a Nikon “man” nor Canon “fan” because I like both. So far on my journey into photography land I’ve learned I have lots more to learn.

    Learning is certainly what life is about and photography equipment (both cameras and mobile phones) allowed me to hone my craft.

    Illustration of vintage cameras arranged in a row, with some cameras featuring a lightbulb or cube on top.
    A man with a beard and glasses is holding a camera and taking a photo near a green hedge in front of a plain wall.

    I have upgraded owning several cameras. A Nikon D3200 and a Canon Rebel SLR1.

    Now in 2026 I own a Canon EOS R100.

    Illustration of vintage cameras arranged in a row, with some cameras featuring a lightbulb or cube on top.
    A person using a camera, standing on a grassy pathway beside a canal, surrounded by trees in a natural setting.
    Illustration of vintage cameras arranged in a row, with some cameras featuring a lightbulb or cube on top.
    A person crouching down to photograph pink flowers near a wooden fence in a natural setting.
    Illustration of vintage cameras arranged in a row, with some cameras featuring a lightbulb or cube on top.

    My iPad Air and iPhone 8 Plus have allowed me to take some amazing photos.  As most people know Apple loves yearly updates of the iPhone line so my current iPhone is a 15 Pro Max. Max for all the “Pro” photography and video features! And yes my iPad Air was sorely outdated. I rock the current iPad Pro M4. Yup! It’s a powerhouse for my video and photo editing.

    I did own a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W90 and FUJI FinePix S5000 once: both were good cameras.

    Illustration of vintage cameras arranged in a row, with some cameras featuring a lightbulb or cube on top.

    I love taking photos of everything!  I always have.  And not just one photo,  I “need” to take every angle and close-ups too. Join me, follow me, let’s get snappin!

    Graphic illustration of several vintage cameras, some with light effects, arranged in a row.

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  • My Lens, Your Focus.

    My Lens, Your Focus.

     Blogger’s Life – Motivational – Snap Spot

    Hey, photog enthusiasts.

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    A person holding a camera and taking a selfie on a porch while a cat rests on a nearby ledge.

    Like you I get my inspiration and intense enjoyment when there is a camera or iDevce in my hand. Sometimes I can be totally absorbed in my pursuit of that “perfect” shot.

    I am:

    • a disabled veteran (23 years Army: 4 Iraq tours, 1 Kosovo, 1 Somalia peace keeping tour)
    • a brother, a husband, a father, a grandfather
    • an encourager, a helper, a support for many
    • photographer for blog ( NealEnjoy – a WordPress blog )
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    A soldier in a military uniform stands with an elderly man, both smiling and posing for a photo. The background features a large dark sculpture.
    A family portrait featuring five people, including an elderly man seated in front with gray hair, and four adults standing behind him, all smiling.
    Two smiling men holding a sign that says 'Mr & Mr', dressed in wedding attire with hats and floral accessories.
    Two men smiling together, one wearing a black Nike shirt, holding a swaddled newborn baby in a hospital setting.
    Group photo of a diverse family gathering in a natural setting, featuring adults and children smiling together in front of tall trees.
    Portrait of a man standing in front of a large abstract artwork at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, with information about the gallery visible in the background.
    Illustration of vintage cameras arranged in a row, with some cameras featuring a lightbulb or cube on top.

    I have:

    • seen a lot of the world
    • learned joy is the true measure of success
    Illustration of vintage cameras arranged in a row, with some cameras featuring a lightbulb or cube on top.

    I will do my best to:

    • tell my story though pictures, and if you look closely, you will see your story too
    • show that life is good
    • have fun with the lens
    Illustration of vintage cameras arranged in a row, with some cameras featuring a lightbulb or cube on top.

    I love:

    • capturing “that” moment
    • my children and grandchildern
    • photography
    • Sci-Fi
    • collecting comics
    • playing music on iTunes/iPhone/iPad
    • my cats Benny and Boopers (you will see a plethora of their photos)
    • antiques
    • traveling
    Illustration of vintage cameras arranged in a row, with some cameras featuring a lightbulb or cube on top.

    I think you:

    • will agree that there is art in more places than what’s just in a museum
    • will love this blog
    • will, hopefully,  share the blog with someone close to you
    • will pick up a camera (or iDevice) and take some photos!
    Graphic illustration of several vintage cameras, some with light effects, arranged in a row.

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