{"id":522,"date":"2024-02-21T13:16:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T13:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.peregrine-themes.com\/bloghash\/lite\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-07-13T19:15:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T19:15:34","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/avidanalog.com\/?page_id=522","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Welcome to&nbsp;<strong>Avid Analog<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center si-clear-tm has-text-color\" style=\"color:#f43676\"><strong>Curiosity is the beginning. Creation is the destination.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m a photographer, musician and enthusiastic collector of hobbies from the UK. Photography is the main event, but you\u2019ll also find articles about songwriting, music production, making things, collecting things and whatever else happens to have barged its way into my brain that week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m not an expert, and I\u2019m not really trying to be. There are plenty of people on the internet who know more than I do about cameras, microphones, synthesisers and almost everything else I write about. This isn\u2019t a masterclass. It\u2019s a notebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One thing I\u2019ve realised over the years is that I enjoy connecting ideas just as much as I enjoy learning them. A camera becomes a lesson in design. A song becomes a lesson in storytelling. A piece of technology becomes a way of thinking about creativity. The connections are often more interesting than the subjects themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/avidanalog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_1289-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-610\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.7777777777777777;object-fit:cover;width:578px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/avidanalog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_1289-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/avidanalog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_1289-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/avidanalog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_1289-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/avidanalog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_1289-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/avidanalog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_1289-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For years I was very good at collecting ideas and remarkably less good at turning them into finished things. I\u2019ve since come to the conclusion that ideas are only half the story. The other half is making something tangible from them. A photograph. A song. An article. A project. Something that didn\u2019t exist yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You\u2019ll notice I don\u2019t use my real name here. That\u2019s not because I\u2019m in witness protection or secretly Batman. I simply wanted somewhere that felt like my own little corner of the internet, where I could write honestly, follow interesting rabbit holes and publish without overthinking every word. The work matters more than the author.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So this isn\u2019t really a photography blog. Or a music blog. Or a technology blog. It\u2019s a curiosity blog that just happens to contain a lot of cameras, guitars and the occasional completely unrelated obsession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If any of that sounds familiar, pull up a chair. I hope you find something here that makes you think, inspires you to make something of your own or, at the very least, convinces you that buying&nbsp;<em>another<\/em>&nbsp;camera isn\u2019t always the answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks for stopping by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to&nbsp;Avid Analog. Curiosity is the beginning. Creation is the destination. 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