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Re - selling. If the person was going to have a break , perhaps when/if they took it up again , some of the gear would be outdated and they would want to buy gear with better specs. Their current gear sold then would be worth even less. Having said that, I probably wouldn’t sell anything!

Another enjoyable one, gents, thank you. On a side note... David, have you a glitch in the matrix or has Sam bunged you a tenner? On the pubcast website the link from the images of Stuart and Adam take you to Sam's YT channel.

One of your better episodes, gents. A lot of thoughtful views rather than throwaway comments.

Thanks for another engaging video, one of the most intense ones you have done, but thoroughly enjoyable.

Many thanks guys, I really appreciate the invite and had a great time. Would love to come back in the future for another therapy session… ❤

Very enjoyable and interesting conversation like always. Glad to see DG and his LLMs. However, please can someone contact OpenAI and get Gary banned after that song.

Any enjoyable episode gents, and wow how insightful is Alister! Very much the voice of reason. Got to give a shout out to Darren though for trying to help you Gary to understand why you feel the way you do with social media. Fair play Daz! Have a good week all

Gary ... I love you. Its okay 😊

Great episode lads, on the question of social media platforms (particularly instagram), do you think you would have a more favourable view of them if you were more successful and had bigger followings? I noticed that most of the pubcast panel have a fairly low following, how much does that influence your opinion?

Another great podcast everyone. Well done Gary for making the song. Thought it was really good. I think Gary you should get everyone together in Podcast costumes and sing the song and make a record and sell it for a charity. Well done again Gary. Look forward to the next one.

Loved the Pubcast theme song - release it as a single for Christmas! You also invented the Pubcast Triathlon - Fishing, Photography and Golf - it should be in the next Olympics😂. I've given you a thumbs up, but I guess you aren't bothered really?🤣

Blue sky is a place for the wimps and easily offended of society

The reason why it's costing you 50/60 dollars for shipping in Canada is because the scam Wef CARBON tax implemented by the biggest Thieves in Canuck History

Is any of the panel able to answer this Query / Question .. If you are/ were a long term user of LR / PS and decided to ditch it ( for whatever reason ) and move to Affinity2 .. Would you be able to achieve the same processed results ???

Great pubcast and was surprised that Adam returned so quickly following the collection of his parcels. Missed the chance of having a quick mince pie!

Gentlemen, another enjoyable podcast. Alister Benn, as a guest with his insights and commentary, was a real plus. Thanks for the shout-out, and you'll be happy to know that I haven't received any death threats for the theme song question, …. Yet. As far as social media posting, if you create an image and no one sees it; have you really created anything? Social media sure beats the days of handing someone a scrapbook of photos or force feeding them a slide show and watching them squirm. Like many on the panel, I do my photography for the experience of being out. Being older, having a camera with me has the added benefit of when I need to stop on trail to catch my breath or am a little confused, I don't have a boy scout come to me and try to help me across a street. I can just twiddle the camera dials and stare off into the distance like I'm looking for some composition. I gave up long ago trying to figure out why folks give one of my images a like. I know my thoughts in creating a photograph, but I have little to no idea what goes through a viewers’ mind on seeing it. I do enjoy seeing other people's photos on social media and usually give the photos a like to acknowledge to the creator that someone has seen it, but more importantly to mark it that I have seen in case it shows up in my feed again. I'm firmly in the camp of how many likes a photo gets on social media has little to do with the quality of the photo. If one person sees one of my photos and stops to ponder it for a second or two; for me, it was worth the effort of posting it.

Very interesting discussion about mental health. I struggle on a daily basis with my mental health, I find the only thing that helps me is photography, being there in nature, ‘in the moment’, allows me to switch off those negative thoughts and be present.

I really enjoyed this episode, great listening to Alister Benn and his approach to photography as a therapy, I totally agree. Creativity comes at a cost usually, but we have a unique way of looking at the world. On a recent visit to my friend in Cornwall, she came out with me on a walk with my camera, she commented on how much she usually misses in the landscape, because I was spotting things to photograph so often. It really makes you more present in the world.

Just getting started on the episode… sweet cast. Anyway, it’s Geoff, who got a shout out early on. I’ve re-sent my reply, Gary… not sure if it might be going to junk mail? Hope it finds you this time. If not I’ll try something else… such as here and now, even, that the two photos I’ll go with are files 5316 and 2011. Apologies for the mix up!

Interesting discussions about AI and social media!

Superb, best yet (apart from the song 😂).

Strange people who don't use social media are the ones who made their names known on it! I have just achieved a new level with one of my pictures it got no likes at all! (just a fact) There was some interesting topics discussed and that's what I like about about social media, thanks for your time and indeed it was a good listen with my laptop upstairs charging and me downstairs with my ear pods in! Watching the jungle thing on TV, (multi tasking)

A thoroughly entertaining episode! The one thing I would say about social media is that if it is influencing your photography, then it is more likely doing so in a way that is pushing you to mediocrity rather than to being extraordinary. This is because the vast majority of people on social media liking or disliking your work are novices or non-photographers who have limited exposure to the world of photography and are not particularly qualified to judge your work. They will like anything that aesthetically appeals to them without any regard to originality or self expression.

I post to FB for friends and family mainly, also to photography groups. Likes from photographers I look up to mean something. I post to a non photography group within the region I live, as they are all about the region and I use that as a guide for my photography as the likes are from non photographers and that is appreciated by me. Never been on X, Instagram or tik tok and never will.

YewBarrow is a difficult climb up that way. Most people come down yewbarrow as part of the Mosedale Horseshoe but in wet conditions I wouldn't come down over the summit and come round the back of it and down. If I was going up that way I would be coming down the black sail pass after Pillar. Big walks, though, more for warmer and longer days daz. We have all put ourselves in situations like that. A wise man turns around. If it looks shit, it probably is.

I was surprised Mr Benn said he was in Finance, I must have missed that episode?

Talking about shipping costs of books. I enquired on Ted Forbes' book and the cheapest shipping with tracking to Australia from Texas is over $US 90.00! More than twice the price of the book.

Thank you Guy's and to Gary for the editing. Good to see Dave back. Glad that Sam is enjoying his new desk, but please send him to Dunelm for a cushion to sit on.

another good show, Not sure on the intro christmas hit, but you never know .Better than a lot of crap rapping you hear now days. Hope daves troubles are not too serious .stay safe all. BTW Is daz in cambridge? always thought he was in ELy

First things first, I hope that you all managed to get through the storm unscathed. Secondly, if I never hear that tune again it'll be too soon - although it could be said it was so bad it was brilliant. A great guest this week, with some very well thought through input as well. I really enjoyed listening to the discussion regarding social media and everyone's thoughts. Your discussion kind of highlighted the whole thing around social media in the first place, and the sheer quantity of different opinion it generates (well I think so anyway). Photography is like a drug. I've not been able to do pretty much anything for weeks, as we're living in a building site at the moment, so I've packed my editing and photography gear away to try and prevent it getting damaged by all the dust - there's so much we could probably restock the Sahara at the moment. To say I'm getting withdrawals is an understatement. On that note, perhaps I could generate a bit of a discussion? As part of our build, I've been allowed to create my own editing/study area (about 3m x 2m). I'm driving my wife mad, with my intention to paint the walls in a neutral grey, and get grey cupboards so that it's a 'better' editing environment that doesn't create colour casts. I'm even going to get a light with a high CRI at 5000K and the recommended lumens. My question for discussion would be "Do you think I'm going OTT with all this, or have any of you set up very specific editing areas in a similar manner?" Thanks for a very interesting video this week folks, look forward to next week. Sorry for the long comment 😂

Nice surprise to see my good friend Alister. He brought me so much in the way of thinking about photography and creativity. Gary, you should book some date with him for some therapy.😂 I agree that the best way to look at photography is in books or website. I spent a good time with you. Thanks guys.

Have to agree with Adam, who cares if you get likes on social media. The only point of being on it is to create awareness if you have something to sell, and build brand awareness. That's it. If you have nothing to sell, don't go on it.

Great guest choice guy's. Great to see Dave back. Has been missed.

Lots of food for thought guys. Thanks! 😊 Sometimes I fall into that social media "why" trap, like Gary. I've had so-so images get tons of likes, and then images that I'm really happy with get significantly less likes. And I think "why?" (I should really be asking "why do I care?") I like what Alister said "why would amateurs subject themselves to that?" And that's so true! Us amateurs get nothing out of it. Like Adam said, 'likes' mean nothing. We're not making money from IG or FB. (Meta is making all that money!) We (amateurs) are not leading workshops, not selling books, prints, presets etc. Why should we care? Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with the quality of the image, but the popularity of the person posting. Folks that have a small following get left in the dust. I like what Dave said, just post to let people see what you're doing and move on. Don't dwell on what happens after. I think that's a good way to move forward. 👍

Well done again Guys, good to see David and Adam back, and Mr Benn certainly added an air of decorum to the evening. Seemed to flow better tonight.

Well done again guys. Thanks for the show. All the topics were really interesting.

Wow! Some very detailed discussions on photography and its relationship with, mental health, social media and ai, all squeezed in to 2 hours. Have watched it once but need to watch it again to take it all in. On the most important topic .. yes the theme song does need sleigh bells 🙂

I had a similar experience to Daz on the nose of Yewbarrow back on a wet day in June. Underestimated it big style. Give me the nice grippy pinnacles of An Teallach or Liathach any day.

Well done Alistair for bringing some sense of reason to Gary's entrenched mindset of social media. Would be very nice to see your return. Welcome back Mr Dave, hope things go well at home. I post occasionally on Social media, but I print and put my images on the walls at home. That for me is Photography.Enjoy a day out with the camera, if you get a banger shot yippee, if not maybe next time. All stay sane and we will look forward to a dribble of drivel with a bit of humour dropped in.

Social Media, a broad brush stroke required.

Book Mule, Broadband updates, the theme song, and a boat load of social media common sense believe it or not! Thanks for another enjoyable episode.

Alister was such a great guest..he classed up the show.

Any chance you can cut the blaspheming? Puts me off watching. If not that’s fine. I’ll not watch. Cheers

IBIS in the lens? Isn't that a contradiction? 😜 (57")

"This is gold!" Man-Spanx ;-)

Why do people have to be so aggressive. If you have constructive criticism fine. If you are just going to be rude and insulting, say nothing.My watch of the week if you like detective programmes. My 5 "Ellis".I might even enter the quiz oh sorry, competition this year for a laugh. I think you must all have to have skin like Rhino's to take the flack.

Excellent video and entertainment chaps really enjoyed your presentation off to watch Stuart’s video now thank you

Thanks Guys....

Right Dave, brown bears and the occasional black bears eat. Hence why they are not as dangerous as polar bears. Polar bears are twice the size and haven’t eaten for six months. But you probably know better.

I rarely sell gear and still have the Mamiya/Sekor 1000 DTL I got used in the 1970s. I've bought from MPB but not sold. For those in the States my experience buying and selling through KEH has been quite good. And I'll not mention how old my mattress is. 🤣