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Podcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Anthony Corona, Host and Executive Producer, Sunday Edition with Anthony Corona🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Anthony Corona, Host and Executive Producer, Sunday Edition with Anthony Corona https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-10-14-2026/ In this candid episode of Podcasts by Dr. Kirk Adams, Dr. Kirk Adams welcomes Anthony Corona, founder of Anthony Corona Media and Sunday Edition, who was connected to Kirk by Jeremy Grandstaff and recently joined the Persons with Disabilities Media Co-op. Anthony describes his life before blindness and after blindness: he was the East Coast entertainment editor for The Associated Press when shingles in the tissues of his brain, eyes and ears left him c...
2026-10-1446 min
PhotoActiveiPhone 18 Pro Camera Hands OnApple’s iPhone 18 Pro gains a variable aperture and a faster main camera, but that’s not all. In iOS 27, Apple has also revamped the Camera app somewhat. Jeff has been shooting with the iPhone 18 Pro since its release, and we talk about his hands-on experiences.
Hosts:
Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass, Jeff on Mastodon, Jeff on Bluesky
Kirk McElhearn: website, Kirk's photos, Kirk on Instagram, Kirk on Glass, Kirk on Mastodon, Kirk on Bluesky
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2026-10-1236 minPodcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Zhou Fang, Founder and Principal Practitioner, Intersectional Group🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Zhou Fang, Founder and Principal Practitioner, Intersectional Group https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-10-01-2026/ In this thoughtful episode of Podcasts by Dr. Kirk Adams, Dr. Kirk Adams talks with Zhou Fang, an intersectionality practitioner and abundance mindset teacher whose podcast he discovered when it popped up in his iCatcher app. Zhou explains that her intersectionality work begins with her own experience as a Chinese immigrant who is not a citizen, from graduate school in Manhattan, Kansas, to her life in Portland, Oregon, and she compares Midwest hospitality with Pacific Northwest polit...
2026-10-0144 min
PhotoActiveiPhone Duo and iPhone 18 ProApple has announced its new iPhone lineup and for the first time it includes a foldable, the iPhone Duo. But photographers will want to check out the iPhone 18 Pro. We discuss what's new, from the variable aperture to improved maximum f-stop to (finally) manual controls in the Camera app.
Hosts:
Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass, Jeff on Mastodon, Jeff on Bluesky
Kirk McElhearn: website, Kirk's photos, Kirk on Instagram, Kirk on Glass, Kirk on Mastodon, Kirk on Bluesky
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2026-09-1832 minPodcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Stephanie Sanders, Owner and CEO, Walk In Thought Productions, LLC🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Stephanie Sanders, Owner and CEO, Walk In Thought Productions, LLCE https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-09-17-2026/ In this warm episode of Podcasts by Dr. Kirk Adams, Kirk welcomes Stephanie D. Sanders, a transformational motivational speaker and performer from Lakeland, Florida, who first wrote to him years ago when he was president and CEO of the American Foundation for the Blind, and who later met him in person at the National Federation of the Blind convention in Orlando. Stephanie tells her story from the beginning: legally blind in one eye since birth...
2026-09-1746 minPodcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Jeff Wissel, Vice-President, Accessibility, Aira🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Jeff Wissel, Vice-President, Accessibility, Aira https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-09-16-2026/ In this warm and candid episode of Podcasts by Dr. Kirk Adams, Kirk welcomes Jeff Wissel, Vice President, Accessibility at Aira, a friend he first met in a Washington, D.C. hotel hallway when the Secret Service cleared a banquet room for Secretary Elaine Chao. Kirk opens with his own decade as an Aira subscriber: a demonstration at AFB's New York offices from founder Suman Kanuganti, and the airport navigation that became his most valuable use case. Jeff then trace...
2026-09-1658 minPodcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Rachel Antoine, Senior Director of International Operations, Braille Institute🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Rachel Antoine, Senior Director of International Operations, Braille Institute https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-09-15-2026/ In this warm and wide-ranging episode of Podcasts by Dr. Kirk Adams, Kirk welcomes Rachel Antoine, Senior Director of International Operations at Braille Institute, for a conversation about Braille literacy and the programs that sustain it. Kirk opens with his own Braille history, losing his sight at five, learning to read and write Braille from Mrs. Summers at the Oregon State School for the Blind, and depending on Braille books through long hospital stays, then trace...
2026-09-1539 min
PhotoActiveCameras Are EverywhereFrom Meta’s “pervert glasses” to rumored camera-equipped AirPods, cameras are making their way into more of our personal technology.
Hosts:
Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass, Jeff on Mastodon, Jeff on Bluesky
Kirk McElhearn: website, Kirk's photos, Kirk on Instagram, Kirk on Glass, Kirk on Mastodon, Kirk on Bluesky
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Airpods with Cameras, MacRumors
Meta Can’t Stop the Avalanche of Content Filmed on Pervert Glasses, PetaPixe...
2026-08-3029 minPodcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Tom Babinszki, Owner, Even Grounds🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Tom Bobinszki, Owner, Even Grounds https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-08-20-2026/ Here, Dr. Kirk Adams sits down with Tom Babinszki, owner of Even Grounds and a travel and tourism accessibility consultant, whom he first met across an exhibit table at a Kennedy Center LEAD Conference, where, as Kirk tells it, "what to my wondering hands should appear" was a 3D model of the White House, pillars and porticos and all. Babinszki was born completely blind in 1970s Hungary, where a close family member advised his parents not to take him out o...
2026-08-2035 minPodcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Cazerny Bussey, Founder, Even Though I'm Blind Foundation🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Cazerny Bussey, Founder, Even Though I'm Blind Foundation https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-08-18-2026/ Here Dr. Kirk Adams welcomes Cazerny Bussey, founder of the Even Though I'm Blind Foundation, for a first conversation between two blind leaders who arrived at the same work from opposite directions. Kirk lost his sight at five in small farming towns in Oregon and Washington, where he was the only blind kid in every school after fourth grade. Bussey grew up in Brooklyn with low vision, active and surrounded by a large family, and lost his s...
2026-08-1848 min
PhotoActive"It Feels Un-Apple-y"With new iPhones on the horizon, we discuss the new Apple Upgrade program -- and why it feels less like the Apple we knew. We then pivot to amazement about the photographers who shoot the Tour de France every year. And then Jeff shares details about the Godox iT32 flash, a flash and wireless controller that’s affordable and clever for how it works.
Hosts:
Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass, Jeff on Mastodon, Jeff on Bluesky
Kirk McElhearn: website, Kirk's photos, Kirk on Instagram, Kirk on Glass, Kirk on Mastodon, Ki...
2026-08-1731 minPodcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Jeremy Grandstaff, Executive Director, The Inspiration Foundation🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Jeremy Grandstaff, Executive Director, The Inspiration Foundation https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-08-11-2026/ In this candid episode of Podcasts by Dr. Kirk Adams, Kirk welcomes Jeremy Grandstaff, six months into a newly created role as executive director of the Inspiration Foundation, the nonprofit founded by Cleanlogic co-CEO Isaac Shapiro in honour of his blind mother, Bea. Kirk, who introduced the two, traces their friendship from a bench at a National Federation of the Blind conference through Jeremy's consulting work at the American Foundation for the Blind. Jeremy tells his own story...
2026-08-1149 minPodcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Mindy Kolin, Director of Development & Industry Partnerships at Teach Access, and Kate Sonka, Executive Director🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Mindy Kolin, Director of Development & Industry Partnerships at Teach Access, and Kate Sonka, Executive Director https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-08-06-2026/ In this warm anniversary episode of Podcasts by Dr. Kirk Adams, Kirk opens from a smoke-covered Seattle with wishes for friends in eastern Washington, then welcomes Kate Sonka, executive director of Teach Access, and Mindy Kolin, who leads its fundraising, partnerships and communications. Kirk traces his own first encounter with the organization: a visit to Yahoo's accessibility team early in his AFB tenure, where Darren Burton and Mike Shebanek showe...
2026-08-0637 minPhotoActiveDealing with Heat and a Drone Made for WaterThe recent heat waves in the US and UK have us thinking about ways to keep our cameras and phones cool. We also look at a report on Apple’s new raw processing technology coming in iOS 27, and Jeff talks about the HoverAir Aqua, a camera drone designed to be used on the water.
Hosts:
Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass, Jeff on Mastodon, Jeff on Bluesky
Kirk McElhearn: website, Kirk's photos, Kirk on Instagram, Kirk on Glass, Kirk on Mastodon, Kirk on Bluesky
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2026-07-2030 min
PhotoActiveJeff Goes to the Dark Side (Sony)We’ve mocked YouTubers who make a fuss about selling all their camera gear to switch brands and systems, only to do it all again later for clicks. Well, the universe has a sense of humor, because that’s just what Jeff has done—the first part, anyway. He sold his Fuji X-T3 and lenses in became a Sony photographer. And it was the last thing he expected. We also talk about Apple raising the prices of most of its products.
Hosts:
Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass, Jeff on Mastodon, Jeff o...
2026-07-0934 minPodcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Daria Marmer, Founder, Cookie Voice Recipes🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Daria Marmer, Founder, Cookie Voice Recipes https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-07-08-2026/ In this warm episode of Podcasts by Dr. Kirk Adams, Kirk, a lifelong, enthusiastic blind cook, talks with Daria Marmer, founder of Cookie Voice Recipes, a hands-free, voice-first cooking app built with blind and low-vision cooks in mind. A product manager and Cordon Bleu-trained cook, Daria explains how the app began as a fix for her own annoyance, dirty hands, no way to check the recipe, and, after she showed a prototype to the Carroll Center for the Blind...
2026-07-0824 minPodcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Brandy Schantz, Author, Living Chronic🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Brandy Schantz, Author, Living Chronic https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-07-07-2026/ In this candid episode of Podcasts by Dr. Kirk Adams, Kirk welcomes back Brandy Schantz, possibly the show's very first guest, to talk about her forthcoming book, Living Chronic: Conversations That Changed Me, Lessons That Saved Me (Koehler Books, out August 24, 2026). A former U.S. Army intelligence officer turned consultant, Brandy recounts how a severe case of Crohn's disease, and then drug-induced lupus from the Humira treating it, cascaded into generalized dysautonomia (small fiber neuropathy, POTS, orthostatic hypotension) that cost...
2026-07-0728 minPodcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Joel Snyder, Founder & President, Audio Description Associates, LLC and Founding Director Emeritus, ACB's Audio Description Project🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Joel Snyder, Founder & President, Audio Description Associates, LLC and Founding Director Emeritus, ACB's Audio Description Project https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-07-02-2026/ In this wide-ranging episode of Podcasts by Dr. Kirk Adams, Kirk welcomes Joel Snyder, founder and president of Audio Description Associates, LLC, and founding director emeritus of the ACB's Audio Description Project, for a history and status check on audio description. Snyder traces the field from its 1980 origins at Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage (where he helped Dr. Margaret Pfanstiehl and Chet Avery invent the technique, premiering it in...
2026-07-0239 minPodcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with David Grabias, Documentary Filmmaker, Writer / Director & Producer of Brailled It and Christopher Morgan, Braille Challenge Champion and Co-Director of Brailled It🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with David Grabias, Documentary Filmmaker, Writer / Director & Producer of Brailled It, Founder of Artifact, LA and Christopher Morgan, Braille Challenge Champion and Co-Director of Brailled It, USA National-Team Goalball Athlete https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-07-01-2026/ In this energizing episode of Podcasts by Dr. Kirk Adams, Kirk, fresh from the Braille Challenge gala at Braille Institute in Los Angeles, talks with documentary filmmaker David Grabias and 18-year-old Christopher Morgan about Brailled It, a film about the Braille Challenge made largely by the blind kids who compete in it. Grabias recounts how, on a...
2026-07-0138 minPodcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Lauren DeVillier, CEO, Exceptional Minds🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Lauren DeVillier, CEO, Exceptional Minds https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-06-24-2026/ In this warm and practical episode of Podcasts by Dr. Kirk Adams, Kirk welcomes Lauren DeVillier, Chief Executive Officer of Exceptional Minds, the Los Angeles nonprofit academy and working studios that train young adults on the autism spectrum for careers in animation, visual effects, and a newly launching game-arts program. DeVillier traces her path from property manager on Bill Nye the Science Guy through Microsoft, Yahoo, and Disney to her first year leading Exceptional Minds, and lays out how the o...
2026-06-2433 minPodcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Jerred Mace, Founder and CEO, OneCourt🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Jerred Mace, Founder and CEO, OneCourt https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-06-23-2026/ In this energized episode of Podcasts by Dr. Kirk Adams, his first-ever return guest, Kirk reunites with Jerred Mace, founder and CEO of Seattle assistive-tech startup OneCourt, fresh off attending a FIFA US–Australia match in Seattle where he used OneCourt's tactile broadcast at a live sold-out stadium for the first time. Kirk narrates the experience in vivid detail: feeling the ball travel across the pitch under his hands, sensing shots go wide, and syncing to the crowd's roar wh...
2026-06-2327 minPhotoActiveCraig Grannell on Apple’s New AI Photo AnnouncementsApple introduced its next OS 27 systems at its Worldwide Developers Conference, which included changes to the Camera and Photos apps that revolve around AI features. Actually, that’s almost literal: the new Spatial Reframing feature lets you rotate a scene and generative AI fills in the missing details. Is it a slide into AI slop or a legitimate tool to help photographers? We’re joined by writer and photographer Craig Grannell to talk it out.
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Craig Grannell: Revert to Saved, Craig on Mastodon, Linktree
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Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff...
2026-06-2240 minPodcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Robert Annis, Co-Founder, NEURO🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Robert Annis, Co-Founder, NEURO https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-06-16-2026/ In this candid episode of Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams, Dr. Adams welcomes Robert Annis, a London-based coach and organizational psychologist, and founder of NEURO, an inclusive charity built to make neuroinclusion a competitive advantage rather than a matter of ethics alone. Annis speaks openly about his own "late diagnosis" at 45 (he's now 47) as profoundly autistic, with co-occurring ADHD, prosopagnosia (face blindness), aphantasia, alexithymia, an absence of interoception, and severely deficient autobiographical memory, a lifetime of "masking" that finally had names...
2026-06-1636 minPodcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Jack Walters, Founder & CEO, Hapware🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Jack Walters, Founder & CEO, Hapware https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-06-15-2026/ In this illuminating episode of Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams, Dr. Adams sits down with Jack Walters, co-founder and CEO of HapWare, to explore ALEYE, a haptic wristband built to give blind and low-vision people access to the visual, nonverbal layer of communication that makes up the majority of human interaction. Walters explains how the system pairs with Meta smart glasses to capture a live video stream, classifies gestures, facial expressions, and body language through the company's custom algorithms, and t...
2026-06-1538 minPhotoActiveObsessive Isn’t a Bad WordWe often talk about framing a photo to get the best composition, but sometimes we don’t nail it. Or we realize in editing that a tighter crop would be better. Or something crept into the edge of the frame at the last second. In this episode, we talk about cropping photos, whether AI cropping is worth trying, and why there’s only One True Aspect Ratio.
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Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass, Jeff on Mastodon, Jeff on Bluesky
Kirk McElhearn: website, Kirk's photos, Kirk on Instagram, Kirk on Glass, Kirk...
2026-06-1226 minPodcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with James Dykstra, Founder, Code Stack Systems🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with James Dykstra, Founder, Code Stack Systems https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-06-09-2026/ In this forward-looking episode of Podcasts by Dr. Kirk Adams, host Dr. Kirk Adams sits down with James Dykstra, founder of Code Stack Systems, to unpack why so many businesses are watching their AI initiatives stall, and what it actually takes to fix that. Dykstra traces his path from a childhood spent tinkering with DOS to finance and strategy roles at Amazon and Microsoft, then to co-founding a services firm built on the conviction that technology should improve lives...
2026-06-0945 minPhotoActivePhoto ScoutingBefore you go out to do some photography, how do you determine where to go? Jeff had a portrait session booked and discovered that the location was fenced and blocked -- but scouting in advance gave him time to find a new spot. We talk about tools and techniques for finding the best photo spots and conditions.
Hosts:
Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass, Jeff on Mastodon, Jeff on Bluesky
Kirk McElhearn: website, Kirk's photos, Kirk on Instagram, Kirk on Glass, Kirk on Mastodon, Kirk on Bluesky
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2026-05-2628 minPhotoActiveWhat If Apple Makes a Camera?Our conversation in this episode started with news of John Ternus becoming the next CEO of Apple as of September 1, but that led to an intriguing concept that isn’t as far-fetched as it might seem: What if Apple makes its own camera? Imagine a fixed-lens compact mirrorless with a larger sensor, better glass, and all of the technologies Apple has developed for the iPhone. Could it happen? We get into the details.
(Photo: Apple QuickTake 200, by Don DeBold. Used by Creative Commons license.)
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Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on...
2026-05-1126 minPodcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Laura Bratton, Keynote Speaker, Author of Harnessing Courage, and Coach on Navigating Change with Grit and Gratitude🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Laura Bratton, Keynote Speaker, Author of Harnessing Courage, and Coach on Navigating Change with Grit and Gratitude https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-05-05-2026/ In this reflective episode of Podcasts by Dr. Kirk Adams, Dr. Adams sits down with Laura Bratton, a professional speaker, author, and coach who lost her sight to an unnamed rod and cone dystrophy diagnosed at age nine and was totally blind by the end of high school. Bratton walks through her academic path from an undergraduate degree in psychology at Arizona State to a Master of Divin...
2026-05-0536 minPodcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Cheryl Mitchell, Co-Founder and CEO, Access Forge🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Cheryl Mitchell, Co-Founder and CEO, Access Forge https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-04-28-2026/ In this heartfelt episode of Podcasts by Dr. Kirk Adams, Kirk welcomes Cheryl Mitchell, co-founder and CEO of Access Forge, to discuss Belonging by Design, a new initiative aimed at helping faith-based communities and places of worship become genuinely accessible to people with disabilities. Cheryl traces her journey from volunteering as a reader for the late DC accessibility leader Don Galloway in the mid-1990s, through two decades managing federal disability initiatives in government contracting, to becoming a car...
2026-04-2831 minPhotoActiveDaVinci Resolve, Lightroom Killer?
The well regarded video editor DaVinci Resolve just introduced a Photos module inside the app, making some people wonder whether the free software could replace traditional photography tools like Lightroom. We also talk about a book of passport photos, photos that change history and film simulations.
(Image: Black Magic Design)
Hosts:
Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass, Jeff on Mastodon, Jeff on Bluesky
Kirk McElhearn: website, Kirk's photos, Kirk on Instagram, Kirk on Glass, Kirk on Mastodon, Kirk on Bluesky
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2026-04-2730 minPodcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Eddie Pate, IDE Practitioner, Author, Speaker, Consultant and Board Member, Institute for Sustainable Diversity and Inclusion (ISDI)🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Eddie Pate, IDE Practitioner, Author, Speaker, Consultant and Board Member, Institute for Sustainable Diversity and Inclusion (ISDI) https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-04-16-2026/ In this thought-provoking episode of podcasts by Dr. Kirk Adams, Dr. Adams sits down with Eddie Pate, longtime IDE practitioner, author, speaker, consultant, and fellow ISDI board member, to trace Eddie's journey from Army brat and All-American Humboldt State football player to senior inclusion, diversity, and equity roles at Microsoft, Avanade, and Amazon, where he ultimately led IDE strategy for a one-million-person worldwide operations organization. Eddie explains why h...
2026-04-1650 minPhotoActiveMonochrome Sensors, DNG, and Apple 50th
We remain fascinated by monochrome cameras, and this week we discovered just how tough it is to source the sensors used by the Ricoh GR IV Monochrome. We also talk about DNG, Adobe’s universal raw format, becoming an official image standard (and why the big camera companies probably won’t adopt it). And if you hadn’t heard, Apple turned 50!
Hosts:
Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass, Jeff on Mastodon, Jeff on Bluesky
Kirk McElhearn: website, Kirk's photos, Kirk on Instagram, Kirk on Glass, Kirk on Mastodon, Kirk on Bluesk...
2026-04-1231 min
Podcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Claudia Lorant, The Quantum Architect, 3X #1 Best-Selling Author, Speaker, Creator of the Quantum Omni Mindset Framework🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Claudia Lorant, The Quantum Architect, 3X #1 Best-Selling Author, Speaker, Creator of the Quantum Omni Mindset Framework https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-04-07-2026/ In this deeply reflective episode of Podcasts by Dr. Kirk Adams, Dr. Adams sits down with Claudia Lorant, bestselling author and creator of the Quantum Omni Mindset framework, for a candid conversation about trauma, healing, and transformation. Lorant shares her own history as a survivor of profound abuse and explains how years of therapy, study, and self-experimentation led her to develop a five-pillar framework aimed at helping people move...
2026-04-0738 min
PhotoActiveYou Can’t Trust Photos Anymore
So it’s come to this. Generative AI has quickly gotten so good that it’s hard to distinguish real photos from generated ones. So where do we go from here? We talk about C2PA authentication, trusting your sources, and more.
(Image: Generated with Adobe Firefly)
Hosts:
Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass, Jeff on Mastodon, Jeff on Bluesky
Kirk McElhearn: website, Kirk's photos, Kirk on Instagram, Kirk on Glass, Kirk on Mastodon, Kirk on Bluesky
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2026-03-3032 min
PhotoActiveSpec Goblins and the MacBook Neo
Apple has announced the MacBook Neo, a $600 laptop running on the same A18 Pro processor that was used in the iPhone 16 Pro. Oh, and it has 8GB of RAM and starts at 256GB of storage. Believe it or not, lots of people on the Internet take issue with those specs, so we look at it from the point of view of whether it could be a good machine for photographers who blew all their money on a $10,000 Leica f/1.2 lens.
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Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass, Jeff on Mastodon...
2026-03-1528 minPhotoActiveStorage PricesThe prices of digital storage are set to climb this year because AI is eating up all the available inventory. And modern photography is entirely dependent on storage, whether it's the SD cards that store the captured images, the internal solid-state memory that stores data on your computer, or the external SSDs and traditional hard drives that keep your archive of photos.
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Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass, Jeff on Mastodon, Jeff on Bluesky
Kirk McElhearn: website, Kirk's photos, Kirk on Instagram, Kirk on Glass, Kirk on Mastodon, Kirk on...
2026-03-0228 min
Podcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Sucheta Narang, Founder, Accessible World, Creator, Access Trader🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Sucheta Narang, Founder, Accessible World, Creator, Access Trader https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-02-27-2026/ In this insightful episode of Podcasts by Dr. Kirk Adams, Dr. Adams welcomes Sucheta Narang, founder of Accessible World and creator of Access Trader, an accessible, screen-reader-compatible trading assistant, into a wide-ranging conversation about independence, inclusion, and financial empowerment. Born blind in a traditional North Indian family, Sucheta describes learning early that "waiting for a fix" wasn't an option, then charts a path through mainstream education, international disability work in India and the UK, and corporate roles...
2026-02-2733 min
Podcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Mike Calvo, CEO, Pneuma Solutions🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Mike Calvo, CEO, Pneuma Solutions https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-02-19-2026/ In this candid episode of Podcasts by Dr. Kirk Adams, Dr. Adams sits down with accessibility entrepreneur Mike Calvo, co-founder of Pneuma Solutions, for a wide-ranging conversation that blends personal journey with big-picture systems change. Calvo shares how he navigated vision loss, a nontraditional education and work path, and early tech experimentation to become a longtime "for us, by us" builder in the blindness tech ecosystem, connecting the dots from early assistive tech days to his groundbreaking work at Serot...
2026-02-1951 minPhotoActiveDo You Have $10,000 to Spare?
The best-selling compact camera in Japan is from... Kodak? We’ve talked about compact cameras in the past, but it remains a fascinating part of the photo marketplace as people look for something different than mirrorless and DSLR cameras. By the way, do you have $10,000 to spare on a new 35mm lens? Leica’s Noctilux-M 35mm f/1.2 ASPH was just announced at that eye-watering price. Lastly, Jeff covers some new Lightroom features in the latest versions.
(Photo: Leica)
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Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass, Jeff on Mastodon, Jeff...
2026-02-1431 min
Podcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Mark Miller, Founder, CEO, Inclusion Impact Accessibility🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Mark Miller, Founder, CEO, Inclusion Impact Accessiblity https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-02-12-2026/ In this mission-driven episode of Podcasts by Dr. Kirk Adams, Dr. Kirk Adams sits down with Mark Miller, Founder and CEO of Inclusion Impact Accessibility, for a wide-ranging conversation on what it takes to move accessibility from a one-time "fix" to a durable organizational capability. Mark shares his 13-year path into digital accessibility, from a technology career to learning the craft under early industry pioneers, before helping build the field through work on accessibility maturity models and large...
2026-02-1240 min
Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Sheryl Green, Author, Speaker, Boundary Expert🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Sheryl Green, Author, Speaker, Boundary Expert https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-02-05-2026/ In this thought-provoking episode of Podcasts by Dr. Kirk Adams, Dr. Adams sits down with author, speaker, and boundary expert Sheryl Green for a wide-ranging and deeply human conversation about why boundaries matter, and why so many of us struggle to set them. Green shares her personal journey from forensic psychology and years of animal rescue work to a moment of burnout that became a turning point in her life. That experience led her to study, teach, and ultim...
2026-02-0541 min
Podcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Samuel Levine, Professor of Law & Director, Jewish Law Institute, Touro Law Center🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Samuel Levine, Professor of Law & Director, Jewish Law Institute, Touro Law Center https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-02-03-2026/ In this thought-provoking episode of Podcasts by Dr. Kirk Adams, Kirk sits down with Professor Samuel J. Levine, law professor at Touro Law Center, Director of the Jewish Law Institute, and founder of Touro's Disability Rights and Inclusion Project, to explore why advancing disability inclusion requires more than "laws on the books." Levine shares how his work blends legal analysis with broader cultural and human elements, compassion, storytelling, religion, the arts, and lived...
2026-02-0341 minPhotoActivePixelmator Pro Returns
Now we know what Apple is doing with Pixelmator Pro after its acquisition of Pixelmator: it’s part of the new Apple Creator Studio bundle. Also, we celebrate the latest black and white camera to hit the market, the Ricoh GR IV Monochrome, and ponder large-format photographer Sally Mann’s discovery of digital photography.
Hosts:
Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass, Jeff on Mastodon, Jeff on Bluesky
Kirk McElhearn: website, Kirk's photos, Kirk on Instagram, Kirk on Glass, Kirk on Mastodon, Kirk on Bluesky
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2026-02-0330 min
Podcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with John B. Grimes, Survivor Inspiring Resilience, Author, Destiny is Debatable🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with John B. Grimes, Survivor Inspiring Resilience, Author, Destiny is Debatable https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-01-29-2026/ In this candid episode of Podcasts by Dr. Kirk Adams, Dr. Adams talks with John B. Grimes about the life-altering night in 1998 when, as a 19-year-old Texas Tech student, Grimes contracted meningococcal disease and woke up in the hospital days later blind, disoriented, and relearning basic functions, walking, talking, swallowing, while also navigating lasting neurological impacts. Grimes explains why he once called himself "ambiguously blind," describes the role the Texas Commission for the Blind playe...
2026-01-2935 min
Podcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Jerred Mace, Founder & CEO, OnceCourt🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Jerred Mace, Founder & CEO, OnceCourt https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-01-21-2025/ In this inspiring episode of Podcasts by Dr. Kirk Adams, Dr. Adams talks with Jerred Mace of OneCourt about how haptic technology can make live sports dramatically more accessible for blind and low-vision fans. Adams shares his own "hands-on" encounters with the OneCourt device, feeling the raised layout of a basketball court and the vibrations of a synced, fast-moving play, and later experiencing baseball through touch by sensing pitch location, ball flight, and baserunners in real time alongside the radio...
2026-01-2132 min
PhotoActiveWhat’s Real
Is your phone not accurately capturing the world around you? An article in the Guardian questions whether image processing in smartphones is making photos that aren’t genuine. Also, Leica released a firmware update that radically changes the entire interface, leading to a discussion of how important the UI in our cameras is when making photos.
Hosts:
Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass, Jeff on Mastodon, Jeff on Bluesky
Kirk McElhearn: website, Kirk's photos, Kirk on Instagram, Kirk on Glass, Kirk on Mastodon, Kirk on Bluesky
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2026-01-0333 min
PhotoActiveAll Our Cameras
Two Hundred episodes! To celebrate roughly seven and a half years of the PhotoActive podcast, Kirk and Jeff picked some favorite photos from the digital cameras they’ve owned.
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Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass, Jeff on Mastodon, Jeff on Bluesky
Kirk McElhearn: website, Kirk's photos, Kirk on Instagram, Kirk on Glass, Kirk on Mastodon, Kirk on Bluesky
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Episode 35: Martin Parr Shot My Portrait
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2025-12-2339 min
Podcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Sheldon Guy, Director, Women's Athletics, Improve Her Game🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Sheldon Guy, Director, Women's Athletics, Improve Her Game https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-12-18-2025/ In this deeply moving episode of Podcasts by Dr. Kirk Adams, Dr. Adams speaks with Sheldon Guy, Director of Women's Athletics with Improve Her Game and, by his account, one of the only blind basketball coaches, about the sudden, life-altering loss of his vision and the raw, real-time process of rebuilding a life. Sheldon recounts how quickly his world shifted, the heartbreak of what that meant for his son, and the moment he reached a breaking point...
2025-12-1840 minPhotoActiveVroom VroomWe get views into two very different types of photography in this episode. Jeff travels to Nevada for the Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix where the cars’ speed is a challenge to photograph... but not as difficult as the rules set by the Formula 1 organization. Then we look at the fascinating dye-transfer process and how this dying art is being used to print William Eggleston’s prints.
Hosts:
Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass, Jeff on Mastodon, Jeff on Bluesky
Kirk McElhearn: website, Kirk's photos, Kirk on Instagram, Kirk on Glass, Kirk...
2025-12-0833 min
Podcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Alyssa Dver, Founding CEO, Speaker, Educator, Motivator, Spokesperson, ERG Leadership Alliance🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Alyssa Dver, Founding CEO, Speaker, Educator, Motivator, Spokesperson, ERG Leadership Alliance https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-12-04-2025/ In this insightful episode of Podcasts by Dr. Kirk Adams, Dr. Adams sits down with Alyssa Dver, Founder and CEO of the ERG Leadership Alliance, to explore how employee resource groups (ERGs) can drive both inclusion and business performance. Alyssa breaks down what ERGs are, why they're different from social clubs, and how volunteer leaders navigate the paradox of doing "extra" work that still has to align with business goals. She and Dr. Adams...
2025-12-0437 minPhotoActiveI’m Not an AnimalWe’ve got several things to discuss in this episode, from little-known settings in the iPhone Camera app, to shooting panoramas, to the Leica M EV1 and to Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein.
Hosts:
Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass, Jeff on Mastodon, Jeff on Bluesky
Kirk McElhearn: website, Kirk's photos, Kirk on Instagram, Kirk on Glass, Kirk on Mastodon, Kirk on Bluesky
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Leica M EV1
Leic...
2025-11-2936 min
Podcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Ssanyu Birigwa, M.S., Co-Founder, Narrative Bridge🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Ssanyu Birigwa, M.S., Co-Founder, Narrative Bridge https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-11-05-2025/ In this illuminating episode of Podcasts by Dr. Kirk Adams, Kirk shares how a stressful season leading the American Foundation for the Blind and pursuing his PhD led him to the healing work of guest Ssanyu Birigwa. He recalls powerful half-day sessions in New York that began with reflective writing and moved into energy practices like the hara seven-minute meditation, creating "energy bodies" with the hands, and chakra work. Those tools, which he still uses most mornings, helpe...
2025-11-0556 minPhotoActiveOverenthusiastic in Your OpinionWhat started with a couple of new settings related to the iPhone Camera app quickly devolves into a discussion of Apple’s Liquid Glass effect in iOS 26, changes and consistency in the Camera app’s interface, and whether all of this is too confusing for most people taking photos with their iPhones.
Hosts:
Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass, Jeff on Mastodon, Jeff on Bluesky
Kirk McElhearn: website, Kirk's photos, Kirk on Instagram, Kirk on Glass, Kirk on Mastodon, Kirk on Bluesky
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2025-11-0336 min
Podcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Vanessa Abraham, Speech Language Pathologist🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Vanessa Abraham, Speech Language Pathologist https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-10-23-2025/ In this candid episode of Podcasts by Dr. Kirk Adams, Dr. Adams sits down with speech-language pathologist, author, and ICU survivor Vanessa Abraham to trace her extraordinary arc from clinician to patient and back again. Abraham recounts the rare Guillain-Barré variant that left her paralyzed and voiceless, the disorientation and aftermath of Post-Intensive Care Syndrome, and the painstaking work of reclaiming speech, swallowing, mobility, and identity. She explains why she wrote Speechless, to humanize the critical-care experience, and makes a comp...
2025-10-2331 minPhotoActiveHas Camera Tech Hit a Plateau?Has camera technology plateaued? We’re seeing technical advancements in image processing and autofocus, but what about the core parts like sensors? Also, we spend three hours talking about the Apple Watch Ultra 3 (not actually 3 hours).
Hosts:
Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass, Jeff on Mastodon, Jeff on Bluesky
Kirk McElhearn: website, Kirk's photos, Kirk on Instagram, Kirk on Glass, Kirk on Mastodon, Kirk on Bluesky
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Snapshots:
Kirk: Mission: Im...
2025-10-2034 minPhotoActiveHands On with the iPhone 17 ProFifty percent of the PhotoActive podcast got a new iPhone 17 Pro, which means one of us has been testing the new cameras and can report back with first impressions. Who could it be? However, fifty percent of the podcast also got hands-on time with the other new phones, the iPhone 17 and iPhone Air. Listen to find out who got what, who’s seen what, and what we think after the first weeks with Apple’s new cameras... we mean phones.
Hosts:
Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass, Jeff on Mastodon, Jeff on B...
2025-10-0336 minPhotoActiveiPhone 17 and Apple’s Fall EventThe new iPhone models are here, a yearly event that we look forward to mostly to see what Apple has done with the iPhone cameras. Does a 48 megapixel telephoto camera capable of 8x zoom appeal to you enough to buy a new iPhone Pro? Is the svelte shape of the new iPhone Air compelling enough to pay more for, despite it having just one camera and less battery life? Or did you see the Cosmic Orange color of the iPhone 17 Pro and made your decision immediately based on that? We look at what Apple announced and what we’re lo...
2025-09-1241 min
Podcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Elizabeth Whitaker and Rachel Buchanan, VisperoIn this engaging episode, Dr. Kirk Adams sits down with Elizabeth Whitaker and Rachel Buchanan of Vispero to explore how AI and JAWS' 30-year legacy are converging to expand employment and independence for people who are blind or low vision. After Kirk shares a personal JAWS origin story from 1995, Liz and Rachel trace their own paths through VR and training, then introduce Freedom Scientific's new "Learn AI" series: live, first-Thursday-at-noon ET webinars that begin with fundamentals (terminology, prompting, hands-on practice) and progress to specific tools, ChatGPT in October, then Gemini and Copilot in November. Each session is archived with...
2025-09-0929 minPhotoActivePhotography Police and Google Pro Res ZoomAre you following the proper rules of photography, or are you at risk of being busted by the photography police? Maybe you’re shooting photos out of focus, or introducing light leaks, or using direct flash. All of these can be considered “bad” photography, but they’re also currently popular styles of shooting. Also in this episode, Jeff talks about his experience with the Google Pixel 10 Pro XL and its Pro Res Zoom feature that uses generative AI to clean up images shot at up to 100x zoom.
Hosts:
Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagra...
2025-09-0729 min
Podcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Rich and Brittany Palmer, Managing Partners, Adaptation VenturesIn this engaging episode, Dr. Kirk Adams sits down with Rich and Brittany Palmer — Managing Partners of Adaptation Ventures — to trace the personal and entrepreneurial paths that led them to launch an angel, member-based fund focused on disability innovation. Brittany, a bilateral below-elbow amputee, shares how early prosthetics, supportive parents, and careers spanning environmental law and global consulting shaped her founder lens; when she built Beyonder, a live virtual-tour startup for people with limited mobility, she ran into investors who mislabeled the opportunity as "niche," a pattern she later saw across disability-tech. Rich recounts a winding route from RPI to Wall...
2025-08-1849 minPhotoActiveProcess, Product, and Problem SolvingAre you taking photos for yourself, or are you feeding the social media algorithms for brief dopamine hits when someone praises your images? In this episode, Kirk and Jeff ruminate on how the endless scroll of images is affecting how we enjoy and make photos. And we ask ourselves: what do we really want to photograph?
Hosts:
Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass, Jeff on Mastodon, Jeff on Bluesky
Kirk McElhearn: website, Kirk's photos, Kirk on Instagram, Kirk on Glass, Kirk on Mastodon, Kirk on Bluesky
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2025-08-1833 min
Podcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: August 5, 2025: Interview with Meghan Connolly Haupt, Founder, Inclusive SaratogaIn this engaging episode, Dr. Kirk Adams sits down with Meghan Connolly Haupt, founder of the New York - based nonprofit consultancy Inclusive Saratoga. Reuniting after their days in the Lighthouse for the Blind network, the pair trace Meghan's winding road from Carnegie Hall intern and Jesuit Volunteer Corps case manager on L.A.'s Skid Row to corporate-social-responsibility pioneer (she launched the CSRwire news service 23 years ago), craft-beer marketer, and now disability-inclusion entrepreneur. Launched in February 2025, Inclusive Saratoga helps hospitality venues, music halls, breweries, and museums turn accessibility into a competitive edge, offering everything from staff training and sensory...
2025-08-0553 min
Podcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: August 4, 2025: Interview with Ixchel Lemus Bromley, Associate Manager, Responsible Sourcing, Brooks RunningIn this engaging episode, Dr. Kirk Adams sits down with Seattle-based runner and social-impact professional Ixchel Lemus Bromley. The conversation traces her journey from Costa Rica to Pennsylvania and on to the Pacific Northwest, culminating in a college-age diagnosis of retinitis pigmentosa that reshaped her sense of identity and mobility. Bromley explains how guided running restored the "true freedom" she once felt on solo runs, using hand- or waist-tethers and vivid verbal cues to replace anxiety with trust and exhilaration. Determined to share that liberation with others, she founded Free 2 Fly, a Sunday-morning adaptive running club now evolving into a...
2025-08-0432 min
Podcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: August 4, 2025: Interview with Penn Street, Development and Outreach Director, Host, 'The Blind Chick' Podcast, After SightIn this engaging episode, Dr. Kirk Adams sits down with disability advocate, outdoor enthusiast, and "The Blind Chick" podcast host Penn Street. Penn recounts the dramatic origins of her blindness—two rattlesnake bites at age nine triggered Stevens-Johnson syndrome, leaving her with severe burns, lasting eye damage, and years of surgeries. Growing up as the ninth of ten siblings, she credits a rugged childhood, supportive teachers, and the Lion s Clubs with building her resilience. A move to Colorado opened doors to better medical care and the mountains she loves; later, climber Erik Weihenmayer's example convinced her she could still sc...
2025-08-0440 minPhotoActiveMacro PhotographyMacro Photography
Don’t know what to photograph? No vacation plans? With macro photography, you can get great results literally in your back yard. What was once a style of photography that required specialized gear is now something you can do well with just your phone — though of course there’s plenty of gear available if you want to go deeper into it.
Hosts:
Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass, Jeff on Mastodon, Jeff on Bluesky
Kirk McElhearn: website, Kirk's photos, Kirk on Instagram, Kirk on Glass, Kirk on Mastodon, Kirk on Blu...
2025-08-0130 minPhotoActiveFuji X-Half, AI Scaling, and Lightroom ChangesFujifilm’s new X-Half camera is a curious hybrid: a digital camera with analog feel but a modern price. We also discuss news of OM Systems possibly using AI upscaling in future cameras to boost resolution and look at a few changes in the latest versions of Lightroom.
Hosts:
Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass, Jeff on Mastodon, Jeff on Bluesky
Kirk McElhearn: website, Kirk's photos, Kirk on Instagram, Kirk on Glass, Kirk on Mastodon, Kirk on Bluesky
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2025-07-2131 min
Podcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: July 17, 2025: Interview with Margaux Joffe, Founder, Mind of All KindsIn this engaging episode, Dr. Kirk Adams sits down with Margaux Joffe, a board-certified cognitive specialist, accessibility champion and founder of Minds of All Kinds, to trace her journey from a late-in-life ADHD diagnosis at 29 to becoming a leading voice for neurodiversity in tech and beyond. Joffe recounts how learning she was neurodivergent reframed earlier struggles, inspired the women-focused Kaleidoscope Society project, and ultimately propelled her to create Yahoo's first Neurodiversity Employee Resource Group, which blossomed into a 35-office global network before she moved full-time into the company's storied accessibility team. Along the way she underscores the importance of dismantling...
2025-07-1746 min
Podcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: July 14, 2025: Interview with John Robinson, Founder, Our Ability, Inc.In this 30-minute episode, Dr. Kirk Adams speaks with John Robinson, quadruple-amputee entrepreneur and CEO of Our Ability, about the journeys that led them from navigating New York's subway and Amtrak to building tech that removes barriers for people with disabilities. Robinson recounts his path from NBC ad-sales to launching Our Ability, explaining how collaboration with Syracuse University students and successive IBM Watson and Microsoft Azure grants birthed the Jobs Ability AI engine. Today that platform draws around 15,000 monthly visitors and has matched more than 10,000 job-seekers with roles at companies such as CVS and Pfizer, proving that inclusive technology can...
2025-07-1431 min
PhotoActiveTraveling with a CameraIt’s the night before you leave for vacation and you need to choose which camera gear goes and stays. Do you reach for the 300mm telephoto, knowing it can get great photos but is large and bulky? Or do you take the smallest camera you can carry to ensure you have it with you at all times? And what else needs to come along? In this episode, Jeff and Kirk think about being on vacation, equipment they’ve taken on past trips, and what they would take now.
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Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on I...
2025-07-0434 min
Podcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsSupercharge Your Bottom Line Through Disability Inclusion: Blind and Low-Vision Workshop by Dr. Kirk Adams and Aaron Di Blasi: ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode Demonstration: Cutting Edge AI For The Blind: How We're Using It👉 More: About This Webinar that took place on June 26, 2025 live on LinkedIn. 📽️ Recording: Available for free on YouTube here. TRANSCRIPT: Podcast Commentator: Welcome to podcasts by Doctor Kirk Adams, where we bring you powerful conversations with leading voices in disability rights, employment and inclusion. Our guests share their expertise, experiences and strategies to inspire action and create a more inclusive world. If you're passionate about social justice or want to make a difference, you're in the right place. Let's dive in with your host, doctor Kirk Adams. Dr. Kirk Adams: W...
2025-06-2652 minPhotoActiveWWDC 2025Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is always the first glimpse at what we can look forward to with new Apple software, including a peek at the photo capabilities of the next iPhones. And with iOS 26 and the Liquid Glass interface, things are going to look a lot different in the fall.
Hosts:
Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass, Jeff on Mastodon, Jeff on Bluesky
Kirk McElhearn: website, Kirk's photos, Kirk on Instagram, Kirk on Glass, Kirk on Mastodon, Kirk on Bluesky
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2025-06-1330 minPhotoActiveChecking In on AI in PhotographyWe know, it seems like we just talked about AI in photography, but the field is moving pretty fast. Google announced improvements to their generative AI models, which are both impressive and sloppy at the same time. We also look at new AI-based landscape masking tools in Lightroom, speculate on what WWDC could bring to Apple’s Photo app, and more.
Hosts:
Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass, Jeff on Mastodon, Jeff on Bluesky
Kirk McElhearn: website, Kirk's photos, Kirk on Instagram, Kirk on Glass, Kirk on Mastodon, Kirk on Bluesky
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2025-05-3133 minPhotoActiveA Surrender: Markus Naarttijärvi and Daniel AgeeIt’s another photo book! We’re joined by photographer Markus Naarttijärvi and publisher Daniel Agee to talk about Markus’s new book A Surrender. When we last talked to Daniel, he was at photo service Glass, but now he’s struck out on his own to form the publishing company Good Fight, and A Surrender is the first title.
Hosts:
Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass, Jeff on Mastodon, Jeff on Bluesky
Kirk McElhearn: website, Kirk's photos, Kirk on Instagram, Kirk on Glass, Kirk on Mastodon, Kirk on Bluesky
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2025-05-1642 min
Podcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: May 1, 2025: Interview with Barbara Deane and Effenus Henderson, Co-Founders, ISDI and the Northwest Diversity Learning Series (NWDLS)On this episode of Podcasts with Dr. Kirk Adams, Kirk sits down with ISDI co-founders Barbara Deane and Effenus Henderson to explore how the Institute for Sustainable Diversity & Inclusion is helping organizations move "from better arguments to better outcomes." The trio trace their shared history on Washington State's Governor's Committee on Disability Issues and Employment, then dive into the origins of the Northwest Diversity Learning Series, why 2025's sessions are built around the Aspen Institute's Better Arguments Framework, and how ISO 30415, the Global DEI Benchmarks and intercultural-competence research shape ISDI's evidence-based approach. Listeners will hear candid stories of corporate triumphs...
2025-05-0154 min
Podcasts By Dr. Kirk AdamsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: April 10, 2025: Interview with Lamondre Pough, Authentic Leadership Speaker & Trainer at LaMondré Pough Unlimited, LLCDr. LaMondré Pough is an internationally recognized speaker, entrepreneur, and disability rights advocate whose work sits at the intersection of leadership, inclusion, and lived experience. As the CEO of Billion Strong, a global nonprofit uniting people with disabilities across cultures and continents, he champions empowerment, identity, and collective voice. He also serves as the Chief Sustainability Officer for Ruh Global IMPACT and Chairman of Arts Access South Carolina, leveraging these platforms to advance equity in everything from digital inclusion to cultural accessibility. Born with spinal muscular atrophy and navigating the world as a Black man with a disability, Dr. Pough b...
2025-04-1039 min
Reclaiming Your Hue: A Podcast for Women Rediscovering Themselves in Motherhood & EntrepreneurshipEp. 30 with Joseph Kirk | Husband, Father, EntrepreneurVulnerabilityIn this week’s episode of Reclaiming Your Hue, Kelly is joined by her husband, Joe Kirk, for an intimate and candid conversation about the realities of marriage, parenthood, and entrepreneurship. Together, they explore the challenges of balancing two driven careers while maintaining a strong relationship, the profound identity shift women face in motherhood, and the ways men can either grow through the experience or falter under the pressure - but more importantly, how they can IMPROVE upon that.Joe shares his perspective on how becoming parents together reshaped their dynamic as hu...
2025-01-071h 29Reclaiming Your Hue: A Podcast for Women Rediscovering Themselves in Motherhood & EntrepreneurshipEp. 28 with Kelly Kirk | The Gift of Reflection & GratitudeA Year of Growth and GratitudeIn this heartfelt Christmas Eve episode, Kelly Kirk takes a moment to pause, reflect, and share the journey of Reclaiming Your Hue over the past year. From memorable interviews with inspiring mother entrepreneurs to the lessons learned through the peaks and valleys of balancing motherhood and entrepreneurship, this episode is a celebration of connection and growth.Kelly also expresses her deep gratitude to every listener, guest, and supporter who has played a part in this podcast journey. Tune in as she shares her vision for the future, the moments...
2024-12-2411 min
Psychology In Seattle PodcastDr Kirk's HubrisDr Kirk explores his own hubris.This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/KIRK to get 10% off your first month.00:00 Defining hubris02:12 Dr. Kirk's legacy of head injuries & hubris17:31 Concussions32:14 What has Dr. Kirk learned from hubris?50:18 The responsibility of the redo1:13:51 Hubris & judiciousness1:22:39 How is hubris helpful or harmful?Become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOUZWV1DRtHtpP2H48S7iiw/joinBecome a patron: https://www.patreon.com/PsychologyInSeattleEmail...
2024-08-191h 41
The Next TrackEpisode #281: Kirk's New Audio GearKirk buys new audio gear for the first time in several years. Tech doesn't always work.
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NAD C 3050 amplifier
NAD BluOS module
Cambridge Audio CXA61 amplifier
Belkin SoundForm Connect AirPlay 2 Adapter
CalDigit TS4 Thunderbolt 4 Dock
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2024-05-0831 min
The Kirk Miller PodcastE100 | Ask Kirk and Gaby Anything with Gaby NobleCelebrating 100 episodes of The Kirk Miller Podcast with an extra special one... What better way to celebrate a century of episodes than with and 'Ask Us Anything' episode with Kirk Miller and his partner, Gaby Noble. This episode is a little different from the ordinary and is a thank you to every listener, guest, and team member who has been part of the incredible journey so far. Why should you listen? Here are a few more reasons... Your Questions Answered: A mix of professional advice, life tips, and our take on some...
2024-04-081h 16
Psychology In Seattle PodcastUnder the Blanket of Bob & Kirk's RelationshipKirk and Bob answer patron questions.From our sponsor, BetterHelp: Need a therapist? Try BetterHelp! https://www.betterhelp.com/kirkGet started today and enjoy 10% off your first month. Discount code “KIRK" will be automatically applied.00:00 Rage canceling17:58 Kirk's anesthesia30:53 OPP33:30 Triangulation & coaching in therapy41:29 Therapist timeliness & shame52:16 Conversations under the blanket1:00:05 Under the Blanket of Bob & Kirk's Relationship1:14:02 Have Kirk & Bob fought?1:19:54 Social tolerance & seeing local showsBecome a member: https://www.youtube.co...
2023-09-221h 00
Psychology In Seattle PodcastInfidelity, Kirk Triggers, and Wrong ChatGPTDr Kirk answers patron emails.From our sponsor, BetterHelp: Need a therapist? Try BetterHelp! https://www.betterhelp.com/kirk Get started today and enjoy 10% off your first month. Discount code “KIRK" will be automatically applied. 00:00 Emotional infidelity09:48 Gender generalizations17:43 OPP19:13 Flaw shame & perfectionism35:34 Compassionate burnout1:08:07 OPP1:08:50 Who does ChatGPT think Dr. Kirk is?1:35:21 PIS mission statementBecome a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOUZWV1DRtHtpP2H48S7iiw/joinBecome a patron: https://www.patreon.com/Ps...
2023-08-071h 41
Psychology In Seattle PodcastMom Interview - (Chapter 2) - Kirk's ShameKirk interviews his mom.From our sponsor, BetterHelp: Need a therapist? Try BetterHelp! https://www.betterhelp.com/kirkGet started today and enjoy 10% off your first month. Discount code “KIRK" will be automatically applied.00:00 Elaborating on the last episode06:02 An unforgettable family vacation18:25 Family traditions & gifts30:36 Differentiated parenting33:52 Christmas family traditions42:18 Sue's Swedish heritage43:33 What's special about Seattle?45:29 Kirk's favorite childhood food46:35 What animal would Kirk be?48:34 Is Sue a therapist54:09 Where did th...
2023-07-261h 47PhotoActiveKirk Simplifies with One CameraHe really went and did it. When Kirk decided to simplify his photography setup, he sold all of his Fujifilm cameras and lenses, put the Leica Q2 Monochrom up for sale, and bought a brand new Leica Q3. In this episode, we talk about the reasons behind such a drastic move and the advantages of simplifying your gear.
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Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass
Kirk McElhearn: website, Kirk on Instagram, Kirk on Glass
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2023-07-0735 min
Psychology In Seattle PodcastKirk & Humberto fight then cryDr Kirk and Humberto fight again. Eventually, there’s a true breakthrough.From our sponsor, BetterHelp: Need a therapist? Try BetterHelp! https://www.betterhelp.com/kirkGet started today and enjoy 10% off your first month. Discount code “KIRK" will be automatically applied.00:00 Dr. Kirk's history with Humberto07:56 The previous argument18:56 Post-argument & audience reception25:05 Trying to clarify Humberto's point & the fight30:26 Feeling shame & the underlying issue49:20 Dr. Kirk & Humberto's apologies52:54 Friendship trauma & repairing trauma1:18:32 Humberto's family & personal growth1:32:40 Conclusion & vulnerability
2023-06-281h 36
Psychology In Seattle PodcastKirk's Panic Attack and Other ThingsDr Kirk Honda has a panic attack and answers other questions during a live stream.From our sponsor, BetterHelp: Need a therapist? Try BetterHelp! https://www.betterhelp.com/kirkGet started today and enjoy 10% off your first month. Discount code “KIRK" will be automatically applied.00:00 Intro01:00 Working with polyamorous couples01:47 Approaching intersecting identities04:24 How has Dr. Kirk's hairstyle evolved?08:27 Explaining an absent parent to a child11:39 Law of attraction13:36 Psychedelics in therapy15:19 Toxic vs. general masculinity15:46 Coping with anxiety in le...
2023-06-231h 04
Kirk and Connie's Epic Adventures PodcastIntroducing . . . Kirk & ConnieIn this debut episode, Kirk and Connie tell us how they met, how they started traveling together, and why they've made such great travel companions over the years. Plus Kirk begs you to give to his Venmo, Connie educates Kirk about Pee Wee Valley, and they talk about other random things.
Links to things discussed in this episode:
Alex Newell in "Shucked"
Hotel Breakers at Cedar Point
The "ice bar" in Vegas
Kirk's Venmo
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2023-05-1222 min
The Kirk + Kurtts Design PodcastKirk has a Job with Fish Friends at the Monterey Bay AquariumOn this episode, Andy and Kirk speak with...Kirk. Kirk details his new job of working at the Monterey Bay Aquarium as a Sr. Brand Designer. And, as you might guess, it's otterly amazing. Learn more about MBA at montereybayaquarium.comSend us Fan MailSupport the showAbout Kirk and Andy.Kirk Visola is the Creative Director and Founder of MIND THE FONT™. He brings over 20 years of CPG experience to the packaging and branding design space, and understands how shelf aesthetics can make an...
2023-05-0143 min
Psychology In Seattle PodcastKirk Transference, Career Advice, and Japanese CultureDr Kirk Honda answers patron emails.00:00 Is positive transference possible?08:28 Best Seattle band?12:33 Why did Dr. Kirk choose to work as a therapist?15:30 Pros & cons of being a therapist33:12 OPP34:21 Difficult challenges in Dr. Kirk's studies34:57 Advice to Dr. Kirk's past self39:14 Why did Dr. Kirk become a professor?42:59 Potential minors alongside a psychology bachelors44:05 Processing partner abuse in relationships46:58 Connecting with Dr. Kirk's Japanese heritageBecome a patron: https://www.patreon.com/PsychologyInSeattle
2023-04-191h 02
Psychology In Seattle PodcastExistential-Humanistic Psychology with Dr. Kirk SchneiderDr Kirk Honda interviews Dr Kirk Schneider who is a renowned psychologist and author.From our sponsor, BetterHelp: Need a therapist? Try BetterHelp! https://www.betterhelp.com/kirkGet started today and enjoy 10% off your first month. Discount code “KIRK" will be automatically applied.00:00 Introducing Dr. Kirk Schneider2:28 Anxiety to awe17:26 Confronting the 'other'43:53 What might an existential therapist do?56:47 Death anxiety March 27, 2023Become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/PsychologyInSeattleEmail: https://www.psychologyinseattle.com/contactMerch: https://teespring.com/stores/ps...
2023-03-271h 16
Connor & Kirk's CornerConnor and Kirk Recap Connor's First ShowConnor plays his showcase set for Kirk. Kirk is fired up. Connor walks through the night. Kirk is fired up. Connor talks plans for the future. Kirk is inspired to sell jeans, and is still fired up. Kirk selflessly and graciously allows Connor to revel in his big night, the next episode will be all him. Subscribe for episodes every Tuesday, 8am PST!
2022-06-2238 minConnor & Kirk's CornerConnor and Kirk: At Least They're not in Med SchoolConnor Immediately complains about his privileged life. Kirk listens. Kirk understands. Kirk makes the brilliant point that it could always be worse, they could be 4 years in to Med-School. Connor was in Monterey over the weekend, getting absolutely tubed. Kirk talks blue collar work. Connor and Kirk close with a couple remarks about solo movie watching. Subscribe for episodes every Tuesday, 8am PST!
2022-05-1747 min
Break’n’Bible with the Tully Adventurers: Explore!Childhood Trauma: Kirk starts a hard convo and ends hereWelcome to TullyAdventurers! Join us here:
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2021-11-2501 minConnor & Kirk's CornerConnor and Kirk have Life UpdatesConnor and Kirk begin with a heavy foreshadow to a new project they are working on. Connor starts doing stand up. Kirk starts his job at Deloitte that people won't stop warning him about. Kirk reads a book. Connor tries explaining a self help book. Kirk knows the struggle of people worrying about you after reading self help books. Connor and Kirk end the episode with a conversation about Norm Macdonald. Join the corner for monthly episodes!
2021-11-0454 min
The Kirk + Kurtts Design PodcastWelcome to the Kirk & Kurtts Design PodcastIn our first episode, Andy and Kirk talk about the brand Ugly Sparkling Water and Bruiladdich's Classic Lady Single Malt Islay Scotch. We also discuss and debrief Expo East and Andy's quick walkthrough. Listen in. Have some fun. And hope you learn a bit.Kirk & Kurtts is a fun and sometimes blunt discussion in regards to packaging, what it's like to be a small business owner, and life in general. Every week is different, and every week is fun.Send us Fan MailSupport the showAbout Kirk and...
2021-10-2530 min
Calm Parenting PodcastWhy Kirk Struggled—Some Deeply Personal Insights to Help You in 2020Why Kirk Struggled—Some Deeply Personal Insights to Help You in 2020NEW PODCASTWhy Kirk Struggled—Some Deeply Personal Insights to Help You in 2020Kirk shares deeply personal reasons he struggled as a husband and father. It will help give you hope to change in 2020. As always, Kirk provides scripts that will change your kids now and for generations to come.BOOK KIRK. Changes happen at our live events because Kirk’s vulnerability in sharing his struggles inspires parents and teachers to change. If you like Kirk’s podcasts, invite him to speak in...
2019-12-3129 minThe Next TrackEpisode #147 - Kirk's New Sonos AmpKirk bought some new audio equipment: a Sonos Amp. We talk about how this amp works, and how it has allowed Kirk to minimalize the equipment in his home office.
Show notes:
Episode #21 – Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Subwoofers
Sonos Amp
Music Matters, Stratford-upon-Avon
Yamaha R-N803 amplifier
dbx 286s Microphone Preamp & Channel Strip Processor
Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 USB Audio Interface
Episode #134 - Downsizing Your Audio System
Marantz Melody X (M-CR612)
Kirk's Audio Test Tracks (AppleMusic playlist)
Tangent CD II
Cambridge Audio AZUR 651BD
Our next tracks:
J. J. Cale: Stay Around
Mose Al...
2019-05-0327 minThe Next TrackEpisode #84 – Ask Doug and Kirk: AirPods, Ripping Optical Discs, and Moving iTunes LibrariesWe answer a few listener questions about Apple’s AirPods, how to rip optical discs (other than CDs), and moving and merging iTunes libraries.
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Show notes:
Apple AirPods
Sennheiser PX 100-II i headphones
Episode #57 – Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Optical Discs
iTunes Now Hides CD Action Settings if No Optical Drive Is Detected
Rip audio tracks from your DVDs
How to rip...
2017-12-2234 minThe Next TrackEpisode #73 – Kirk Wants to Buy an AmplifierAndy Doe helps Kirk and Doug understand “make louder boxes.”
This week’s guest:
Andy Doe
Proper Discord
“You are experiencing audio ennui.”
Show notes:
Yamaha R-N301 network receiver
Recommended Components: Fall 2017 Edition Integrated Amps & Receivers
Richer Sounds
Grado headphones
Episode #71 – Hi-Fi Separates, Part 1: Network Streamers
Bentley Continental
One note about the musical Girl From the North Country. Between the recording and release of this podcast, the show will transfer to the Noel Coward Theatre in London for 12 weeks, from December 29. See it if you can.
Our next tracks:
Kirk: Gi...
2017-10-0633 min