Life Between the Poles

Send us a Text Message.This episode is about my involvement when witnessing three burglars who just committed a smash and grab jewel heist running from the Scottsdale Fashion Square Mall.   I coincidentally happened to be at the location where the three made their escape from the mall.  There was car a jacking at gun point, a high speed chase and a foot pursuit.  As a photojournalist at the time, I was in the right place at the right time but still struggled to get the quintessential story telling photograph.  This podcast tells the extraordinary adrenaline bumping story of this event and my struggle to capture the decisive moment.  Thank you for listening and help me grow this channel. Have a great day. Many of the photographs I talk about here are on Facebook: Brad Armstrong the Avatar picture is my wife and I with Smokey the Bear, Instagram @ shade_image / commercial and editorial portraits Instagram @ barmst360

Send us a Text Message.This episode is a about my involvement in witnessing an accident where a young boy was pinned under a moving vehicle.  My actions may have saved his life!  As a result I was awarded the National Humanitarian Award by the National Press Photographers Association.  This event was shortly after Princess Diana's death when she was chased by paparazo.  When her vehicle crashed the paparazo continued to photograph her dying inside the car instead of rendering aid to save her life.  This award was given to me because I didn't take pictures.Thank you for listening and help me grow this channel. Have a great day. Many of the photographs I talk about here are on Facebook: Brad Armstrong the Avatar picture is my wife and I with Smokey the Bear, Instagram @ shade_image / commercial and editorial portraits Instagram @ barmst360

Send us a Text Message.This episode, I talk about finalizing an 8X10 contact print toned in coffee and my experience with the Mesa Art Center gallery show where they got my name wrong in the announcement  mailer advertising the show to the public. Thank you for listening and help me grow this channel. Have a great day. Many of the photographs I talk about here are on Facebook: Brad Armstrong the Avatar picture is my wife and I with Smokey the Bear, Instagram @ shade_image / commercial and editorial portraits Instagram @ barmst360

Send us a Text Message.This episode I talk about getting older and being judged by younger people.  How getting older has been an adjustment realizing I know longer blend in.  In the past 11 years the only young people I have spoken to are servers at restaurants.  My friend and I asked our most recent server how do you see us?  Do you see two grandpa's?  She said, she didn't think about, we are just people.   We asked why don't young people speak to use she said,  you don't speak to young people because you don't hang out where young people do.  So true!Thank you for listening and help me grow this channel. Have a great day. Many of the photographs I talk about here are on Facebook: Brad Armstrong the Avatar picture is my wife and I with Smokey the Bear, Instagram @ shade_image / commercial and editorial portraits Instagram @ barmst360

Send us a Text Message.I talk about the fun I've been having making small silver gelatin prints in my darkroom.  When I say small I'm talking 7 by 5 inch prints from 6X9 negatives.  They are beautiful and so much easier to print and a penny saver for sure.  Then I go into a side bar story of my experience at my dentists retirement party.  I talk about our conversation about playing music together and other experiences I've had jamming with friends.Thank you for listening and help me grow this channel. Have a great day. Many of the photographs I talk about here are on Facebook: Brad Armstrong the Avatar picture is my wife and I with Smokey the Bear, Instagram @ shade_image / commercial and editorial portraits Instagram @ barmst360

Send us a Text Message.Welcome to my first Podcast!  Yes, this is a podcast about photography, but there are those occasions where I digress with events around me such as this.  Prior to publishing this I had my friend listen to it and he thought I should do this type of podcast all the time.  Photography, is for photographers where this is for almost everyone, he said.   I was a newspaper photojournalist for 20 years and then a commercial photographer for 11 years until I retired 3 years ago.  I still do personal work which is all analog with multiple formats.  With my experience as a photojournalist, I have been trained to be an observer for the suspicious and for the unusual.  In my retirement it has carried over into my daily life.  I have an obsessive sensitivity to humanity good and bad.  The title of my Podcast is Life Between the Poles which has nothing to do with a football goal posts.  It's about the state of mind between the glass half full and the glass half empty.  Thank you for listening and help me grow this channel. Have a great day. Many of the photographs I talk about here are on Facebook: Brad Armstrong the Avatar picture is my wife and I with Smokey the Bear, Instagram @ shade_image / commercial and editorial portraits Instagram @ barmst360