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Joaquín Baldwin

@joabaldwin.com
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Author of the Noss Saga (LGBTQ+ epic fantasy series). Layout Artist & Director of Cinematography at Disney (Zootopia, Encanto, Frozen, Moana, etc). Photographer, animator, designer, he/him 🏳️‍🌈 Married to @dahlumii.bsky.social www.joaquinbaldwin.com

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 29/09/2026
BABY RACCOONS CLAMMING! With a bad-ass, limping, short-tailed mom hero to protect them! Spotted them right past sunset at a Washington beach. 🦝🦝🦝
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I cheated when making the portrait for this lovely wombat. I used another illustration I had done before, and just changed her arms (gave her a salad) and redid some of the line work to match the style of the other portraits. #NossSaga #Illustration
Character portrait of Ulésse with the Noss Saga logo above, set against a textured brown backdrop. The elderly wombat is wearing a green robe, a conical hat sprinkled with flowers, yellow gloves, and is holding a salad bowl filled with greens and fruits. Her belly pouch holds a variety of gardening tools.
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 29/09/2026
BABY RACCOONS CLAMMING! With a bad-ass, limping, short-tailed mom hero to protect them! Spotted them right past sunset at a Washington beach. 🦝🦝🦝
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 27/09/2026
when you're close to me 🐻💖🐺
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 27/09/2026
Have. More. Fat. Bears.
15 red-ink doodles of bears on paper, from the signed/doodled Noss Saga hardcovers.
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 27/09/2026
Was at Powell’s in Portland and saw @wiswell.bsky.social’s books in the award winners section, so I dropped a Certified Gay sticker inside one (unpeeled—I’m not that much of a vandal).
Me holding a paperback of Someone You Can Build A Nest In, opened to the first page, with a holographic Certified Gay label sticker inside.
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 27/09/2026
when you're close to me 🐻💖🐺
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Timothy Dahlum @dahlumii.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The trip this far with @joabaldwin.com;,currently channeling birds, nature vibes, and ready to head back to the coastal route.
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 08/09/2026
The Red Stag #NossSaga #Illustration
Character portrait of the Red Stag with the Noss Saga logo above, set against a textured brown backdrop. The anthropomorphic elk bugles as he pushes one hoof down onto the skull of a giant cervid. He has sixteen tines on his broad rack, and his face is painted a bloody red. He holds his wave-bladed longsword point down in front of him. He wears red and black leather armor with golden filigree details, a black and gold cape, and a silver pauldron encrusted with rhodonites.Character portrait of the Red Stag with the Noss Saga logo above, set against a textured brown backdrop. The anthropomorphic elk bugles as he pushes one hoof down onto the skull of a giant cervid. He has sixteen tines on his broad rack, and his face is painted a bloody red. He holds his wave-bladed longsword point down in front of him, and is wearing nothing but a loincloth, revealing his muscular, scarred body.
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 27/09/2026
I prepped the newsletter for this one already (gotta do a bunch of things in advance since I’m still roadtripping). I’m planning to announce an important date that day as well.
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 26/09/2026
Everyone in Portland wearing shorts and a sweater is either: A) Non-binary B) Sports jock
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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
personally I would prefer if you kept your fleshy drupaceous parts to yourself rather than putting them out there on a twisted peduncle for all to behold, but who am I to judge
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 23/09/2026
Have a timelapse! With a bonus of @tfiddlerart.bsky.social's art I used for reference at the start of it. #NossSaga #Illustration #Tutorial
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Jacobspencer04 @jacobspencer04.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Drawing of @joabaldwin.com ‘s Kulak character
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 23/09/2026
Have a bunch of fat bear doodles for #FatBearWeek
A page filled with suggestive doodles of anthro bears, red ink over textured paper, taken from the signed/doodled Noss hardcovers.
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 24/09/2026
things found in the forest spore ravine why would you serve us so much syrup too many people at this beach
Canid mask in a redwoods forest sunken between a bunch of clovers in a rotten logA deep canyon full of ferns with a creek running at the bottomTwo massive disposable cups full of syrup they gave us at breakfast. Didn't even use 1% of that.Timothy staring at Haystack Rock in Cannon Beach during sunset
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 24/09/2026
A solar-powered lighthouse
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Archer Pearce @archerpearce.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My dear Kulak 🤍 One of my fav characters of the Noss Saga, its just... so curious, kind, cute, and horny too 😂 I love him and his slightly chubbyness so much. Must protect
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 23/09/2026
Have a bunch of fat bear doodles for #FatBearWeek
A page filled with suggestive doodles of anthro bears, red ink over textured paper, taken from the signed/doodled Noss hardcovers.
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 22/09/2026
Everyone's favorite kitty. Here's my new illustration of Kulak. #NossSaga #Illustration
Character portrait of Kulak with the Noss Saga logo above, set against a textured brown backdrop. The caracal smiles coyly as he twirls one of his ear tufts in a raised hand, cocking his head slightly. He is wearing a leather kilt with multiple colorful decorations, anthro-ready shoes, several bracelets, and a shodog, which is a fabric that dangles behind his back and attaches to bands around his biceps, leaving his chest and soft belly exposed.
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 22/09/2026
tree biggg
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 22/09/2026
Everyone's favorite kitty. Here's my new illustration of Kulak. #NossSaga #Illustration
Character portrait of Kulak with the Noss Saga logo above, set against a textured brown backdrop. The caracal smiles coyly as he twirls one of his ear tufts in a raised hand, cocking his head slightly. He is wearing a leather kilt with multiple colorful decorations, anthro-ready shoes, several bracelets, and a shodog, which is a fabric that dangles behind his back and attaches to bands around his biceps, leaving his chest and soft belly exposed.
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 21/09/2026
do not
A red traffic light in the middle of a foggy redwoods forest looking ominous as fuck
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 20/09/2026
T A L L Also, saw an otter splooshing downriver. #Cosplay
Cosplaying with the canid mask and blue tunic at the redwoods forest. Shot looking up into the impossibly tall trees, super wide angle, me looking like a tall tree as well in the one point perspective.
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 19/09/2026
Breakfast, a whale (maybe two?), and too many pelicans
Breakfast at Alta Bakery in Monterey, out in their garden/farm. Having the 9 grain pancakes. Timothy sits across from me, having some salmon thing. Sunset over the ocean with a whale breaching under the sunbeams (just a dark tiny blob)Sunset over pointy rocks in the ocean with a billion pelicans
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 16/09/2026
Here's one of the alts. #NossSaga #Illustration
Character portrait of Lummukem and Olo with the Noss Saga logo above, set against a textured brown backdrop. The Komodo (or varanus) dragon is using their curved tail to stand up, their clawed feet dangling over it. They are reaching a hand up to Olo, an azure-hooded jay of bright blue colors who is preparing to land. Lummukem is holding a halberd crafted with bones and steel, and they are wearing loincloth. The lizard's muscular body is multicolored, shifting between purples, greens, tans, and blues.
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joão ruas @feralkid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
st christopher II - pencil on paper
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 18/09/2026
It begins. Gas prices will destroy us.
Map of our planned roadtrip from LA to Seattle to Yellowstone and back, making a huge loop of 3400 miles (minimum without detours, will likely end up at around 5000 miles)
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 17/09/2026
So true! The Noss Saga could use some more ratings/reviews too, it helps with visibility. Also helps combat those one stars from people who didn’t finish or thought it icky for reasons. So go drop a rating and/or review! www.goodreads.com/series/39325...
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Noss Saga by Joaquín Baldwin
Wolf of Withervale (Noss Saga, #1), Masks of the Miscam (Noss Saga, #2), Relinquished Realms (Noss Saga, #3), and Feral Flame (Noss Saga, #4)
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pipi🏳️‍⚧️ @pickedaxe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
writing is about showing off your particular brand of mental illness in a fun and often erotic way
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 17/09/2026
Heading to Yellowstone soon! Here's a photo I took ages ago, which is still one of my favs. The sunset was tinted by smoke from forest fires nearby, making it extra glowy. #Photography
A hunky male bison silhouetted on a grassy field. The image is painfully orange and gold, tinted to the extreme by a setting sun.
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 16/09/2026
It's coming! Book 5 is nearly here! 🦅🐦🐦‍⬛🐔🐣🐤🐥
Wings of the Wayfarers cover reveal, October 6. Graphic shows a wrapped book with the covering partially burning out. The backdrop is a mountainous landscape tinted lavender, sprinkled by flocks of birds.
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 17/09/2026
Heading to Yellowstone soon! Here's a photo I took ages ago, which is still one of my favs. The sunset was tinted by smoke from forest fires nearby, making it extra glowy. #Photography
A hunky male bison silhouetted on a grassy field. The image is painfully orange and gold, tinted to the extreme by a setting sun.
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 17/09/2026
Always use a blintz origami base so that your cheese doesn’t spill out of the burger when cooking.
Two slices of cheese on a plate, folded in a blintz origami base to make their area smaller.
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 17/09/2026
So true! The Noss Saga could use some more ratings/reviews too, it helps with visibility. Also helps combat those one stars from people who didn’t finish or thought it icky for reasons. So go drop a rating and/or review! www.goodreads.com/series/39325...
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Noss Saga by Joaquín Baldwin
Wolf of Withervale (Noss Saga, #1), Masks of the Miscam (Noss Saga, #2), Relinquished Realms (Noss Saga, #3), and Feral Flame (Noss Saga, #4)
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 16/09/2026
It's coming! Book 5 is nearly here! 🦅🐦🐦‍⬛🐔🐣🐤🐥
Wings of the Wayfarers cover reveal, October 6. Graphic shows a wrapped book with the covering partially burning out. The backdrop is a mountainous landscape tinted lavender, sprinkled by flocks of birds.
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 16/09/2026
ARC reader emails for Book 5 will be sent tomorrow already. Wings of the Wayfarers is ready, cover and all, I just gotta get some print proofs and set up all the shop stuff. If you were part of the B4 ARC Team, expect something tomorrow, then you can start reading. <3
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 20/02/2025
Timelapse of the Sterjall illustration! Including a bunch of photos of me being a dork. #NossSaga #Illustration #Tutorial
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 15/09/2026
Here's the finished painting of Lummukem and Olo. I revealed two other characters to my mailing list just this morning! #NossSaga #Illustration
Character portrait of Lummukem and Olo with the Noss Saga logo above, set against a textured brown backdrop. The Komodo (or varanus) dragon is using their curved tail to stand up, their clawed feet dangling over it. They are reaching a hand up to Olo, an azure-hooded jay of bright blue colors who is preparing to land. Lummukem is holding a halberd crafted with bones and steel, and they are wearing a green shodog (a long-sleeved open-front jacket), many necklaces, a leather kilt, and a black tail armor made of interlocking segments of quaar with a mace-like tip. The lizard's muscular body is multicolored, shifting between purples, greens, tans, and blues.
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🌿 That Boar Dude 🌿 @thatboardude.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Guys, this book -slaps- and I would totally recommend it. Though there are explicit scenes, if you like adventure I would say give the book a try coz I'm hooked! ✨️ When I'm done with comms I'm gonna hopefully have time to draw some fanart :)
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 09/09/2026
Still in love with this commission I got from @gatoiberico.bsky.social of Kulak and Sterjall. #NossSaga
Kulak the caracal walking alongside Sterjall, gesturing excitedly with his arms while the dark-furred wolf acts a bit shy and reserved. The caracal is wearing a leather kilt and an open-chested green jacket, and the wolf is wearing a blue tunic and decorative tan trousers.
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 11/09/2026
Gonna be headed to Yellowstone again next month. Can't wait to sit by stinky pits for hours again, trying to get a photo of the perfect mud bubble <3 <3 #Photography
24 photos of mud bubbles in a 6x4 grid. They all look alien and neat as fuck.
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Shiloh Skye @shilohskye.com · 13/09/2026
Updates to the Recommended Reading page on my website are now LIVE! Including a new layout and a bunch of new titles. Plus new categories: Lesbian Fiction, Transgender Fiction, Straight Fiction, Action, Isekai/Portal Fantasy, Speculative, and Dystopian. Enjoy! #FurryWriting #FurryLit #Booksky
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If you're looking for a furry book to start with, you've come to the right place! Just select your favorite genre to find three books to choose from. I've read all of these books and can highly recomm...
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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I am not first and will be far from the last to say this: I have purchased so many books because I saw them recommended or publicized here on bsky. I cannot urge you all enough to KEEP TALKING ABOUT BOOKS. I know it's easier to talk up someone else's book, but this also means you, the shy author.
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 12/09/2026
There's an obscene amount of BEAR in this trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXaX...
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World of Warcraft: Forever | New Horizons | Cinematic Trailer
YouTube video by World of Warcraft
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 11/09/2026
I'M STOPPING SIGNED HARDCOVER SALES next week due to an incoming trip, since I won't have a chance to ship them for a month or so. If you want one, get it now. Copies left: - Book 1: sold out - Book 2: 45 - Book 3: 29 - Book 4: sold out joaquinbaldwin.com/collections/hardcovers
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Signed hardcovers are available in small batches only, and they sell out quickly. It takes me a lot of time to sign, doodle, and write custom runic messages on each copy, which is why I can't have the...
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 11/09/2026
I'M STOPPING SIGNED HARDCOVER SALES next week due to an incoming trip, since I won't have a chance to ship them for a month or so. If you want one, get it now. Copies left: - Book 1: sold out - Book 2: 45 - Book 3: 29 - Book 4: sold out joaquinbaldwin.com/collections/hardcovers
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Hardcovers
Signed hardcovers are available in small batches only, and they sell out quickly. It takes me a lot of time to sign, doodle, and write custom runic messages on each copy, which is why I can't have the...
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 11/09/2026
Gonna be headed to Yellowstone again next month. Can't wait to sit by stinky pits for hours again, trying to get a photo of the perfect mud bubble <3 <3 #Photography
24 photos of mud bubbles in a 6x4 grid. They all look alien and neat as fuck.
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 11/09/2026
So much Book 6 editing done this week! (yes, moving on to B6 already). I plan to do at least 3 full edit passes myself on this, because it needs to be extra polished. And man, so many fun chapters here. Can't wait for you all to see how the saga ends.
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daryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...
reddit comment: 

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply: 

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

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The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…
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