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Missed Mile Markers:
Welcome to Missed Mile Markers! 🌿📸
Hello and welcome,
I’m thrilled you’ve found your way here! I’m a quirky, humorous, and enthusiastic photographer, capturing the beauty of Colorado’s parks and wildlife. Originally, I come from a background in internet security and technology—specializing in DevOps, infrastructure, and optimization—and I dabble in programming. But here’s where things get interesting: I’m also colorblind.
The Beauty of Seeing Differently
Being colorblind is at the core of how I experience and share the world through photography. I don’t edit my photos, and here’s why: if I were to edit them for my eyes, they just wouldn’t look right to most people. The warmth, the balance—it would all be off! My goal is to capture moments that stand out in my mind’s eye. If it catches my attention, then I figure for those who see color as it truly is, you’ll often be treated to something exquisite. Seeing differently means seeing something truly unique.
Here are some examples as how things look to me.
Here are edited photos that begin to depict how I observe the world. The bottom one is the normal photo which is unedited. The top 2 photographs are edited to so you can begin to understand how I see the world.
That is a big difference, or so I am told.....
No Formal Training, Just Passion
I have no formal photography training. Everything I know comes from reading, learning, and then simply getting out there and experimenting—like that classic advice, "always shoot into the sun"… just kidding, never shoot into the sun, unless you want to! 😄
A Lesson in Color: Unedited, Unfiltered
Take these two photos, for instance—both unedited, taken at the same time with the same settings, yet the difference in colors amazes me every time.
The difference in the above photos are slight positional differences, and slight variation in time (maybe seconds). However the only difference I see is the one on the left looks darker....
The variations remind me why I prefer not to edit my photos. To me, there’s beauty in capturing a scene as it is, without my colorblindness adjusting the reality of it.
Other Works:
Youtube Channel:
Video Blog: https://www.tumblr.com/videomilemarkers
Interested in My Work?
I do sell my photographs, and in most cases, I’m more than happy to allow them to be used in creative works. If that’s something you’re interested in, just shoot me a DM—I’d love to chat more!
Thanks for visiting, and I hope you enjoy seeing the world through my eyes.
~ MissedMileMarkers