Jeff Brunner is NOT Jeff Brunner

Episode 66 starts off with quite the game show loser sound from old Price is Right episodes. I really got my hat handed to me in like the first 30 seconds of my conversation with my friend Jeff. Very significant emphasis on the word "friend" there. For a very good reason. You'll have to listen to the episode to get the reasoning behind all of this because typed words really don't do justice to my falling on my face.

I have known Jeff and his wife since some time in 2006. We met via Flickr. We reminisced a little and talked about how Flickr really was it back in the day. There was no Facebook yet... no Instagram... no real social media just yet. Flickr really was a place that photographers and hobbyists could scratch an itch that none of us yet really knew existed.

I had never really taken a big interest in photography until the day I saw some of the experimental and unique work of Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir. You can hear me butcher her last name in the episode... that's just clean fun right there! I saw what Rebekka was doing and I had to try my hand at some of it. That led to a lot of stumbling through some bad self-portraits.

Oh, yeah. It's worth saying that this was back before "selfies" were a thing... but I joined a group that was based around a challenge to take a self portrait every day for a full year called (get this...) the 365 project. Because I wanted to try doing some of the things that Rebekka had done, with my own twist (yet, sometimes, I did straight up copycat homages to her), I joined the group. This was where I met Jeff and his wife Trish.

It wasn't too long after that when we were actually hanging out in their neck of the woods in Northern California. Trish even welcomed me to her workplace to hang out for a bit and see the premises. Sounds boring, right? Well... not if you work at Skywalker Ranch! That was pretty cool.

The point here: I've known Jeff and his wife for a long time now, although we don't get to "hang out" all the time. But, following their adventures and watching their kids grow up over social media has been a treat. And, this is the way of the world today, right? We feel like we know people so well because of Facebook or Instagram.

So, when Jeff recently had a major life shift due to a scary revelation of a health issue he was having, it made me really want to sit down and talk with him for a bit.

Jeff was raised in a very loving family and he still is extremely close with his parents and his sister. It's a great story hearing about how Jeff's mindset has changed as he grew up outside of his house. We talk a little about how some of the "hot button topics" of current events can drive people apart, even within the same family. It was refreshing to hear Jeff talk about how he and his Dad are able to foster such a loving and caring relationship, still, while they may not see eye to eye on a lot of things.

Please do check out and support Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir via her website at www.rebekkagudleifs.com and you can view her Flickr at www.flickr.com/photos/rebba

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