It's Easy to Start a Podcast - Photography Is Nothing with Zach Dobson & Courtney McCracken

Welcome to our very first episode of Photography is Nothing! This week Zach & Courtney discuss starting a podcast, literally dropping a $5000 camera, attending & photographing the Indy 500, documenting the neighborhood swim team, and more! "Photography is nothing–it's life that interests me.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson Index 0:00 - Intro: Talking photography at you is boring 2:22 - Courtney & Zach take a trip to the 2025 Indianapolis 500 3:52 - It's easy to start a podcast 7:12 - Our favorite part of the 500 8:30 - Zach's Indy 500 photos 📷 9:55 - Remember: your first photos of the day usually aren’t good 10:41 - Family trip to Cedar Point 11:10 - Zach dropped the Fujifilm GFX100RF and it broke 14:27 - Courtney asks if people who know you take the best photos of you? 15:36 - How sports photographer Dave Black influenced Zach 📷 19:29 - Courtney runs summer swim team & Zach documents it 📷 24:33 - Documentary photography of everyday life 27:17 - Lessons from Mike Birbiglia podcast 📷 29:00 - We host a race party 29:50 - Who is the GFX100RF good for? 31:08 - Steven Shore documented the everyday in great detail 📷 32:07 - Courtney is excited Taylor Swift got her masters Find Zach Website: https://zachdobson.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zachdobsonphoto/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@zachdobsonphotoThreads: https://www.threads.com/@zachdobsonphotoFind CourtneyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/courtneymccracken_/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@happy_life_lessonsThreads: https://www.threads.com/@courtneymccracken_ About the Podcast Photography is Nothing with Zach Dobson and Courtney McCracken is a weekly conversation about photography and all its impact. Each week Zach and Courtney discuss their latest adventures, life lessons, and anything else that sounds interesting. Photography is Nothing invites you into the conversations they were already having as a married couple running a photography and media company in the current world.