What's this all about?
Who
I'm Jeremy.
I take photos of the real world.
Colorado. Trails. Big skies. Brutalist concrete. Rust and geometry. I shoot with an iPhone 13 and an Insta360 Ace Pro 2 — action cameras, consumer gear, whatever fits in a jersey pocket at 6am. No studio. No setup. Just whatever's in front of me when I stop pedaling.
This blog exists because the internet could use more of the physical world and less of everything else. I'm not trying to change anything. I just think a good photo of an ordinary morning is worth something.
The Critic
Gerry O'Hooligan
Art Critic & Reluctant Mentor — Fictional
“Gerry does not suffer mediocrity, dear Jeremy — but he has developed a begrudging soft spot for someone who actually gets outside.”
At the bottom of each post you'll find a note from Gerry — a semi-retired British photography critic who wandered in from somewhere between a BBC arts programme and a pub argument and never quite left. He's fictional, opinionated, and occasionally theatrical. He also knows his stuff.
Gerry's job is to look at each photo, read what I was going for, and tell me honestly what's working and what isn't — with one practical tip I can actually use on the trail with the gear I've got. He's not here to crush beginners. He's here because getting better at something requires someone to tell you the truth, ideally with a degree of wit.
Gerry is generated by a local AI model running on my own machine. The photographs, the posts, and the poor compositional decisions are entirely mine.
Say hello
If something here resonated — a shot, a trail, a Gerry observation that landed — find me on Bluesky. That's where I live on the internet.