Adam Wayne: Framing St. Louis One Shot at a Time

Arnold00:00:00

What do you get when you cross a scratched up camera with a wild imagination?You get Adam Wayne, Arts.And we're going to talk to him on St. Louis in Tune.Welcome to St. Louis in tune and.

Mark00:00:22

Thank you for joining us for fresh.

Arnold00:00:24

Perspectives on issues and events with experts, community leaders and everyday people who make a difference in shaping our society and world.

Speaker B00:00:31

I'm Arnold Stricker along with Mark Langston.

Arnold00:00:34

Who's got a bright blue yes.Shirt on today.Mark, I need to put my sunglasses on.

Speaker C00:00:39

Wow.Okay.

Arnold00:00:40

Yeah, it's a little.Got a little neon tinge to it.

Speaker C00:00:43

That's all right.Okay.

Arnold00:00:45

It's that Los Angeles Chargers blue.

Speaker C00:00:49

Oh, okay.All right.Yeah, I'm okay with that.

Arnold00:00:53

Was that San Diego?

Speaker C00:00:56

You know, my wife, she dressed me today, so that's probably why I'm looking so good.I'm usually a T shirt guy.Yeah, T shirt and shorts.I know.I did.I work.I did that for our guest because he's a special fella.

Arnold00:01:10

He is.

Speaker C00:01:11

I want to make sure I look good for him.

Arnold00:01:13

Folks, we're glad that you joined us today and we all want to look good for our guests today.Want to thank our sponsor, Better Rate Mortgage for their support of the show.You can listen to previous shows@stl and tune.com where you can follow us and leave a review.Our thought to ponder today is by the.Who is well known.Their name is unknown.And here is the.Okay, here's the quote.It's very interesting.If you're driving, you just hold your hands on the wheel tightly.Photographers are violent people.First they frame you, then they shoot you.Then they hang you up on the wall.

Speaker C00:01:48

I like that.

Arnold00:01:48

Yeah, that's a good one.Photographers are violent people.First they frame you, then they shoot you, then they hang you on the wall.We actually have some of our guests work hanging on the studio wall here.Yes, they are great.And we'll post a picture on our Facebook and Instagram page.But Adam, Wayne, welcome back to St. Louis in Tune.

Speaker D00:02:11

Thank you so much.I am very honored to be here.

Arnold00:02:13

Yes, it's been like I was telling Mark, it's been six years, I think since you were first on the show.

Speaker D00:02:18

Yes, time flies.

Arnold00:02:20

And we are going to.

Speaker C00:02:21

Arnold had hair, then.

Arnold00:02:24

Had a lot more teeth, too.

Speaker C00:02:28

Six years.That's a long time.

Arnold00:02:31

I'll post that interview on the podcast page so you can hear that.We're not going to rehash that stuff.

Speaker C00:02:35

I forgot about the teeth part with you.

Arnold00:02:37

Yeah, exactly.But we'll get for those people Who Maybe don't know who you are.Tell us a little bit about yourself.I know.Last I knew you were you still working fish?

Speaker D00:02:49

No, I'm actually the manager of Max's meat butcher shop in Florissant.Ooh.Yeah, I got an upgrade.

Arnold00:02:55

Yeah, no kidding.

Speaker D00:02:56

So I left the.I actually continue to work with fabulous fish on the occasion.They'll call me in to help.But I got elevated to manager at Max's butcher shop.So I took that gig and I'm working there full time.

Arnold00:03:08

So what does that job entail?

Speaker D00:03:10

I am the full time butcher.I do obviously the butchering of mostly pork and beef and chicken.

Arnold00:03:15

Okay.

Speaker D00:03:16

But we have a very brand new.It's taking off like flying colors.It's a dog food section.We used to smoke dog bones.Smoked dog ears.

Speaker C00:03:24

Yes.

Speaker D00:03:24

Raw dog food.

Arnold00:03:25

Yes.

Speaker D00:03:25

And we have it in multiple locations and handyman hardware.Valentis.A lot of.A lot of meat butcher shops that have carry our stuff.And I believe a gas station like mobile on the run will start getting now.

Arnold00:03:37

Was that your idea and brainstorm?

Speaker D00:03:39

I was a little bit of the brainstorm.Kevin Durham, the owner pretty much came up with the idea.

Arnold00:03:44

Okay.Okay.All right.So you actually butcher the hogs and butcher the chickens or they just kind of come to you and that's a good question.

Speaker D00:03:53

Our chicken, we do get cut.We do cut whole chickens but we don't bring in any livestock of our own because it's.The regulations are very steep.We actually used to have cows on old Jamestown.We used to have them cut up and then brought to our butcher shop.And we would actually.But they.The regulations on that are super high.So we're in the process of getting back into getting the correct documentation to do that.But yeah, we continue to source locally meat and then we cut from the whole pieces.

Arnold00:04:22

Yeah.So what's the name of the shop again?

Speaker D00:04:24

Max's Much.Max's Deli Butcher Shop.

Arnold00:04:28

Max's Deli and Butcher Shop, folks.There you go.Shameless plug.Check it out in Florissant.

Speaker C00:04:33

Yeah.Do we get a.A discount?

Speaker B00:04:36

Yeah.

Arnold00:04:37

Get a side of beef.Wow.

Speaker D00:04:39

I'll give you a free dog's food safe.

Speaker C00:04:42

A sample.Okay.

Speaker D00:04:44

Yeah, we got sample packs for the dogs to dry.

Speaker C00:04:47

Rachel Ray did that.She's doing a big thing with dog food.

Speaker D00:04:50

I know, I know.It's like one.I told them when we first started that it might surpass the butcher shop.

Speaker C00:04:56

I believe it might.I think.I know, I don't laughing.

Speaker D00:04:59

But it's like our sales for it are almost at that point.Yeah.

Arnold00:05:02

Wow.

Speaker C00:05:03

Yeah.

Speaker D00:05:03

It's that big of a deal.

Speaker C00:05:04

You want to.Yeah.

Speaker D00:05:05

Smoke dog bones and the.The pig ears are the biggest.

Arnold00:05:08

Oh, and our dog loves smoke bonk bones.

Speaker C00:05:10

Yeah.

Speaker D00:05:10

We have just a lot of meat on our bones.So leftover.

Arnold00:05:14

Oh, he loves that.

Speaker D00:05:15

That's the big kicker for us.Most of the dog bones in the gas station or Petco, they're like shriveled up and shrunken down.Ours are plump, just smoked and got plenty of meat still left on the boat.

Arnold00:05:25

Oh, my gosh.

Speaker D00:05:26

And the dog.The dogs love.

Arnold00:05:27

And folks, we're talking about to a photographer today.

Speaker C00:05:29

I know.

Speaker D00:05:30

But yeah, it is my main gig.The photography thing is still my hobby and it's still my side hustle, obviously.But yeah, I'm in the Gateway Art Store.I'm in STL style house.I'm a resident artist at Soul Art Gallery and I continue to do it every day.

Speaker C00:05:44

Yeah.

Arnold00:05:44

And you started.You had this scratched up canon and you're not.My words.You're not professionally trained, but you have a great eye for seeing things that when it's on the.Once on the screen or it's on our wall, it's like, wow, that's really.

Speaker D00:06:03

Yeah.

Arnold00:06:04

That one Louis really captivated me.When I first saw that was like, wow.That.That's.

Speaker D00:06:09

I do look at things often and I'll do a 360 and how is someone not looking at this and how can I look at it?And in a more artistic fat.I just know that there's something else here and how can I perform better as a photographer?You.You.It's all about really angle and light a lot of times and capturing the moment.So I try to do all three and then I'm.I'm kind of a master composition.

Arnold00:06:34

You are.

Speaker D00:06:34

I'm really just focused on what is in the frame and how can I master what's in the frame?

Arnold00:06:40

Yeah, I've seen these things on.I don't know whether it's Instagram or X or some of the other social media media platforms where it's like, this is what I see and this is actually the picture.And is that kind of how your mind works with that stuff?

Speaker D00:06:53

Yeah.You as a photographer are entitled to add anything into that picture.Right.So you fit in what you want to fit in.So a lot of times everybody will say, you make St. Louis look so beautiful.I try to fit St. Louis in this little box.Right.And then that little box I try to make as spectacular as I possibly Can.So you only have.So if you're shooting short frame photography like I do, I try to implement certain subject matters that are locally famous or locally familiar.And then I implement nature's perspective and then do that.Well, and I try to do that.

Arnold00:07:30

Raindrops or water or.

Speaker D00:07:31

Yeah, a lot of.It's just the way the light hits something then that I have to bring that to light.So it will.It's almost.If someone's going to tell you something, they'll put a light bulb above your head.An idea that's kind of like what I. I feel with sunlight.

Arnold00:07:45

Okay.

Speaker D00:07:46

It's just an idea that I get when I see something that when the light hits it, I'm like, oh, I know what to do now.

Arnold00:07:52

What's a short frame?You mentioned that.

Speaker D00:07:54

So a lot of photographers will shoot landscape photography, kind of like what I do.But they shoot long frame, meaning they'll shoot horizontal.And everything's.The whole frame of the city could be in the frame itself.

Speaker C00:08:06

Okay.

Speaker D00:08:07

I try to dial that down a lot of times into a very small window of what's right here.And how can I look at it from right here versus from the biggest perspective possible?I don't.I try to like hone in on smaller things around me because everything's connected.That is my niche.I think everything is connected just down to how the shape of water mimics the shape of the arch.

Arnold00:08:34

And you are mainly shooting Downtown, City of St. Louis Kinds of things.

Speaker D00:08:39

Yeah.So like that's my inspiration is trying to be like this local legend that's in my.It's in my mind.You think of Ozzie Smith, you think of Mark McGuire, these sports legends.I don't know of too many photographers because I don't do my research.I probably should, but I just try to in my mind what can I possibly do today Again, to produce a very well quality legendary shot.

Arnold00:09:04

Yeah.

Speaker D00:09:05

With just the daylight.Because a lot of times we focus on does the blues win the Stanley Cup.Now I gotta go get that picture of them all down the street.

Speaker B00:09:13

Right.

Speaker D00:09:13

With the Stanley Cup.I just try to flip all these things on the head.I just want to do fine art, expressionary photography.When a lot of times you get carried away as a photographer.

Arnold00:09:23

Right.

Speaker D00:09:24

I need to go there.I need to do this.I just try to stay within what I'm good at and then just work on that constantly.

Arnold00:09:30

You're staying in your lane.You're not a photojournalist.You mentioned you were a what?

Speaker D00:09:34

Expressionary fine art photographer.

Speaker C00:09:36

There we go.

Arnold00:09:36

I need to write that down.

Speaker C00:09:37

Oh, yes.

Arnold00:09:38

Expressionary fine art photographer.

Speaker D00:09:40

Yeah.So I love to express myself with the lens and I can tell a story with the photo.And I feel like you and people can tell a story with the photo in many different ways.Photojournalism is a very good way to tell a story because you're capturing what's going on during the times protests and stuff like that.But that doesn't get me going.If a photographer gets that gets them going, they're going to do really well at that.But since this kind of photography gets me going, I feel like I am very well at it because it really.I love it.So the more you love something, obviously, the better you're going to do at it.So that's why I stay in my lane.I try to just do what I know I can do well.And what really affects me emotionally, I try to bring that to light.

Arnold00:10:24

He made a great point, Mark, in that photography.If you think about it.If I look at a photograph of something that happened in civil rights movement versus looking at a video, a well done photojournalistic photograph captures emotion.It captures what you can almost hear the sounds.You don't have to have all the visual and the auditory things going on with the.

Speaker C00:10:49

It's almost distracting.

Arnold00:10:50

It is.That's a good point.

Speaker C00:10:51

Yeah, it does.It does.Captures a moment so well.And if I.If it's a great photograph, I'll just stare at it for the longest time and look at every little detail in there.

Speaker D00:11:01

Yeah, same.

Speaker C00:11:02

And it just kind of.Wow.It brings me into it.

Arnold00:11:05

Yeah.

Speaker D00:11:05

There's a guy at the Soulard Art Market who sells photography.I don't know his name because I'm horrible with names, but he's a.He's been around and he sells a lot of older photos from 1982 World Series when they won the World Series.And I was born in 82.So I saw this guy and I bought a few photos from him.Had a conversation.But yes, like you were saying, I was so enthralled by his photography because he would capture the moment during the times and he was also abstract.So one of the images I purchased was his reflection of old Busch Stadium on a glass building.And it was warped and it was abstract.It reminded me something of I would do.

Speaker B00:11:42

Yeah.

Speaker D00:11:43

But he also was really the photo you're talking about.You would just sit there and stare at it.It was everybody celebrating after the 1982 World Championship.And I was just looking at everybody in the streets and Their expressions.

Speaker C00:11:54

Yeah.

Speaker D00:11:55

And what were they doing and what kind of cars were being driven?What was on that street sign up there?Is that still there?So, yeah, those, those types of.Yeah, those types of photos I really am inspired by and I kind of want to do my own style of photography where people will recognize that particular photo for the rest of their time.That's kind of how I try to instill it and stain an image in your head without being that, that, that normal type of photographer.

Arnold00:12:24

Yeah.This is Arnold Stricker with Mark Langston of St. Louis and Tomb.We're talking to Adam Wayne and you can check him out on Instagram at Adam Wayne W A Y N E Arts.Adam Wayne underscore and see what kind of photographs and things are for sale there.Adam, or where can they purchase something from you?

Speaker D00:12:42

That's a good question.So you can always message me if you like a particular photo on my page and we can go about how you would like it on metal or luster print or canvas.My muse, I always produce mainly my original images on metal and then my reproduction images on luster print.But you can go to the Soul Art Gallery and I have a full room on display and many prints available.You can find my work at the Gateway Art Store.I have metal prints there.And I have work at Nisting House, which is on Cherokee Street.It's an art decor place and STL style house.

Arnold00:13:19

Okay.

Speaker B00:13:20

And why metal?

Speaker D00:13:21

Metal print is so you don't have to frame it.I am, I love it.It's very glossy, so I use a high gloss metal.There's multiple different variations.There's matte and there's semi gloss and high gloss.I use high gloss because it mimics what you would see on your phone.

Speaker C00:13:37

Okay.

Speaker D00:13:38

So it's reflective almost.It's sharp, it's clean, it's.It doesn't work with every particular photo I use.So a lot of times if I don't think it looks good on, on metal, my original be on canvas or my original be blown up on and framed on a luster print.

Speaker C00:13:54

Okay.

Speaker D00:13:55

And then I'll offer smaller reproductions of that photo.But metal print, it just comes with a backing.You put it right on the wall.You don't have to frame it.And it's very sharp.To me, it's clean.It's aesthetic to me.I don't know how that's just durable.

Arnold00:14:10

Okay.

Speaker D00:14:10

Yeah.

Arnold00:14:11

To look you like you're in the.

Speaker C00:14:12

You said you're in the gateway arch down below, I guess down to The.All right.Do you take pictures of the arch at all?Have you done any of those?

Speaker D00:14:18

Oh my gosh, yeah.

Speaker C00:14:20

Really?

Speaker E00:14:20

Yeah.

Speaker C00:14:20

Yeah.

Speaker D00:14:21

That's a good very.That's a very sly question.You just did a very sly question.Yeah.That's my main niche, my main muse, my main go to is that the arch itself is literally in the crevice of a leaf.It's in the shape of our.We have four or five arches in our hands, in our backs, in our feet.And I try to perspectively, the arch is not just an arch.It's literally.It's a connecting point.There's a connecting points to all of life.And I just try to really get deep with it and then implement the arch shape in a lot of different variations, not just the arch itself.

Speaker C00:14:58

There was an arch picture I came across about a year ago.It's the architect and there's lightning bolts hitting the arch.Have you seen that one?

Arnold00:15:05

Yeah.

Speaker D00:15:05

That's very crazy.

Speaker C00:15:06

That's.

Speaker D00:15:06

It's a very good looking.

Speaker C00:15:07

Oh, look at that.Okay.

Speaker D00:15:08

Yeah.Very good looking shot.When you can get the lightning strike to strike the arch like that, it's all about timing.

Speaker C00:15:14

Yeah.

Speaker D00:15:14

And it's.It's a stage shot.So you'd have to sit there and wait for it.My.My whole thing is like, how can I walk around and then continue to dial in my own style without having to sit there and patiently wait?The only thing I typically will wait for is a bird to fly by.My.The add to the composition sometimes.

Arnold00:15:36

That's cool.

Speaker C00:15:36

The arch is.It's such a.What a piece of art.It is.And there's so many angles.Like, it's just crazy.Yeah.

Speaker D00:15:44

I found a really weird connection about five years into taking photos that the arch.The architect of the arch, Irio Sarian, he passed away on September 1st, and I was born on September 2nd.So I find it like a rebirth.And that he would.And then when I find.When I looked at it as birthday, he was born on the same day as my dad, so he shares the same birthday as my father.

Speaker C00:16:06

Wow.

Speaker D00:16:06

And I didn't find this out until halfway.I love that everything's connected and I believe that.And then I look into it and there's more connections that I even fathom.It just goes on down the line of how many weird connections I have to St. Louis and St. Louis has to me.And I think if we all just pay attention, life gets a little bit more curious, less lame.If you just look at everything around you and realize that there's more connections to things that we didn't realize.Yep, agreed.

Arnold00:16:34

When we were putting the studio together, we needed something on the wall.We needed some color and we needed some sound.Baffling.And got some of Adam's shots and put them on some canvas and with some of the baffling.And it's really helped out the studio.It kind of sets the studio wall off quite a bit.

Speaker D00:16:57

It's super cool for me to have my artwork in your guys studio after all the guests that you have in here, it's remarkable.It makes me feel like I know I'm doing something right.

Arnold00:17:07

When you go to look at all of your work we've really enjoyed, you can get such a variety.You can really be real hard.This is one of the St. Louis Cardinals emblem down at Ballpark Village that I'm looking at right now.You can do that.I'm looking at King Louis over here.What was he, the ninth?I can't remember.I ought to know that I'm from St. Louis.But it's looking up at him from more of the horse.And that's what captivated me was that this horse looks really powerful.And then you got a shot from East St. Louis at night across looking at the arch.So it's not like you were saying, it's not this massive landscape.You're focusing on one particular kind of thing.And we wanted a little variety to represent St. Louis.And that's kind of what we got.And we're really happy with it.But folks, if you go to his Instagram page, you can see some just kind of unbelievable kinds of shit.This is a great shot because it looks like it disappeared.It looks like the cloud was coming out of this guy's head and he doesn't have a head.This is down at City Park.

Speaker D00:18:05

Yeah, City Garden.

Arnold00:18:06

Yeah, City Garden Park.So you need to go there and look at some of this stuff because it's just unbelievable.

Speaker C00:18:12

Yeah.

Speaker D00:18:13

So you got your head in the clouds.So that's kind of like my motivation of that particular photo.If you're heading to clouds, your head's gone.On that.That horse photo with the King Louie.The horse, his leg is on the edge of the bottom of the frame.So I kind of wanted to look like it was coming into like jumping into the frame.Jumping out.

Arnold00:18:34

Out of the picture.

Speaker D00:18:35

Yeah, out of the picture.

Speaker B00:18:36

Yeah.

Speaker D00:18:37

So it really is about angle a lot of times about angle and how the light hits that angle if it will look at the best.And this arch photo, I'm really just Capturing the water.

Arnold00:18:49

The reflection.

Speaker C00:18:50

Yeah.

Speaker D00:18:50

The shape of the water coming in.It's also making an arch.

Arnold00:18:53

Oh, yeah.

Speaker D00:18:54

And then this particular St. Louis photo, I really wanted to capture the PWC angle, so I.That's why I got low and high.I looked up and I was low because I want that building to be in my frame because that's my first commission building.My artwork was first commissioned in the Ballpark Village building.

Arnold00:19:14

When they see their stories behind the photographs.

Speaker E00:19:18

Yeah.

Speaker D00:19:18

There's often a little reason why I did it that way.Yeah.I don't just.I just.I wish I could just say I just take photos.But no, every photo has some kind of intelligence, some kind of idea behind the photo.

Arnold00:19:29

Yes, but otherwise you'd just be wandering around the city, just taking a bunch of shots and then going, okay, which one do I like?

Speaker D00:19:34

There's some good.There's some good.There's some good photos that can be taken that way.It's just that the way I'm taking my photos, it works for me.I feel like I know no one else is doing it the way I'm doing it.So there's other ways of taking photos.I just know a lot of people don't hone in on certain particulars, and that's what I do.

Arnold00:19:54

Well, I think we talked about this the first time.You don't use, really any filters or anything like that, or you don't go into the dark room like Ansel Adams, and, okay, we're going to add a little bit more of this to get this darker or stuff like that.

Speaker D00:20:04

That would be really neat if I actually learned how to do that one day.But, no, I have no training in the dark room.I am a digital.I have a digital camera that I still continue to use today.I still have that same camera that when you interviewed me 60 years ago.I still use it.And like I said, then, I want.I want to go as far as I can with this camera.

Arnold00:20:22

Yeah.

Speaker D00:20:22

And I am.I'm going pretty far with this little camera.

Arnold00:20:25

If it works, don't mess with it.

Speaker C00:20:26

That's fantastic.A lot of the guests that come in, they always.I'm.I tell you, 95 of them comment on these photographs.

Speaker D00:20:34

Diana Lindsley was on your show recently.I know her.She invited me to her woman's photography group.

Arnold00:20:39

That's yours.

Speaker D00:20:41

Get out.You know what?This picture on the front of this book that you just handed me from her is from Eminence, Missouri.I went there twice this year and got this particular photo because I Was I had saw this.My mom wanted a picture of a red barn.

Arnold00:20:54

Yeah.

Speaker D00:20:54

And I knew that I've seen this red barn before.I'm like, where is this?Oh, it's Alley Springs.And I wanted to go on a float trip.And Jack's Fork river is Jack's work.

Arnold00:21:02

Great clean.

Speaker D00:21:02

Cleanest water.

Arnold00:21:03

Yeah.

Speaker D00:21:03

Yeah.So that's where I wanted to go.And I went there twice, because the first time I went, I needed to go right back.So I went twice this year to Ali Springs.And I know this place very well.

Arnold00:21:13

Yeah, we had her on.That was a fun interview.Mark and I learned things about our state that we had never even known.

Speaker D00:21:19

Yeah.So she's like, you would say.I wouldn't say she's a traditional landscape, but she does do traditional landscape photography.And she's got very beautiful photos.

Arnold00:21:28

Yes.

Speaker D00:21:28

And she does capture the time.And she has the tripods and the big long lenses, and she works it like a professional should.And then I try to do that, but just do it at a different angle.Yeah, just.

Arnold00:21:42

You only have the one lens.

Speaker D00:21:43

Yeah, just the one.It's a bridge camera.So it does amazing.It does everything really well.It really captures macro very well and long distance and then obviously short full frame.It's got a creative shot setting on it.I don't know if any other cameras have this setting, but I'm addicted to it.And it takes six shots really quickly.And you can turn that little dial to a monochrome or retro.And I use those, like, all the time.I'm constantly using the creative shot setting because I want to be creative.

Speaker C00:22:15

You really know your camera, though.

Speaker D00:22:17

Yeah.

Speaker C00:22:17

Like, by having it for so long.You know that camera.

Speaker D00:22:19

Yeah, I'm actually.I'm actually researching, like, how to get.Because they actually.This camera is not.You can't get it no more.They stopped with the model that I have.They stopped making the Canon power shot.

Arnold00:22:30

Because it was too good.

Speaker D00:22:33

Could have found out about me, I'm telling you.So I'll be using this camera for a very long time.Hopefully I'll get another one refurbished or brand new from ebay or something.

Arnold00:22:42

You're checking around.

Speaker D00:22:43

Oh, for sure.Yeah.Why not?It's just like a baseball bat that you hit home runs with that you don't want to throw.That's your baseball bat or your glove that you always had.That's.That's kind of how I look at it.I'm in no hurry to get into another camera.The quality is just perfect for me.

Speaker C00:22:59

Yeah.And you don't like those big long shots.Those.

Speaker D00:23:02

I do, I do like long exposure photography, if that's what you're referring to.My camera has those capabilities.They're just.And it's just not.I would say I couldn't do a two minute long exposure.It's the maximum I can do is a 30 second.

Arnold00:23:18

Okay.

Speaker D00:23:19

You know what I mean?

Speaker B00:23:19

Yeah.

Speaker D00:23:19

So there's certain things that I can't, can and cannot do and I'm just fine with that.Yeah, Yeah.I can't do astrophotography.I can do a little bit of it.I love to.I love when the moon's out in the daylight because I can literally use that in my perspective that I normally can't at night because my camera doesn't work as well.

Arnold00:23:36

Well, I've got some friends.One, one.He does some universe kind of shots.

Speaker D00:23:41

Sure.Yeah.

Arnold00:23:42

And big.He kept it out all night.And then you see the stars just go like this.And then another friend who, he does a lot of the games up in Kansas City for the, the Royals and the Chiefs and he does some AP stuff.I'll send you their stuff so you can kind of take a look.And it's always matter of fact, we need, we probably need to take a break and then we'll come back and talk about that because what photographs do you look at, like when you're out and you got a magazine or you see somebody else's photographs, what does it do for you?Do you follow those people, etc.Like that?We'll talk about that when we come back.This is Arnold Stricker with Mark Langston of St. Louis and Tune don't go away.

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That's infoistl.org or call314-77390.Welcome back to St. Louis in Tune.This is Arnold Stricker with Mark Langston.We're talking to Adam Wayne.You can go on Instagram to Adam Wayne, Underscore Arts.And we were talking a little bit off the air and then we stopped talking because, folks, sometimes we have some great conversations off the air and we just don't talk anymore.We just say, nope, we're gonna talk.

Speaker C00:26:15

We've already covered that off the air.

Arnold00:26:17

So, Photo Editor, you mentioned something.I said stop.We'll talk about that on the air.

Speaker E00:26:21

Yep.

Arnold00:26:23

Photo Editor, go ahead.

Speaker D00:26:24

Yeah, so it's a basic app.You can now download it on your phone, which I have on my phone now.So this is taking away from a lot of my time that I would normally do.I would go home, I'd take my SD card out of the camera, I put it in the SD card reader, put it in my tablet, go on Photo Editor and edit my photos that way.I still continue to do that occasionally, but now I can do it on my phone on a rapid.I could take Canon.I got the Canon power, I got the Canon app, so I can now wi fi sync.

Arnold00:26:53

Oh, you upload it.

Speaker D00:26:54

Upload it to my phone.And I can now edit them on Photo Editor.

Arnold00:26:57

Oh, wow.

Speaker D00:26:57

On my phone and then upload them without having to do all the long leg work where I have to send it now to my Gmail or Dropbox.

Speaker C00:27:05

Yeah.

Speaker D00:27:05

Then download it to my phone then.So there's a lot of capabilities with Photo Editor.You have, you can reflect an image with itself.There's a lot of sharpening tools, color, hue changes, just basic.Any editing that you can do, you can do with Photo Editor.You don't need to add anything to your shots.You can, there's a clone, there's a clone button.So you could add things to your shots just Like Photoshop, but I typically just use it just for sharpening, color changing, and then taking the level bar, and I'll add dark shadows to certain areas.You know what I mean?

Arnold00:27:39

Okay.

Speaker D00:27:39

So there's a curve bar and a level bar, like a lot of photographers know what I'm talking about.It will literally, you can drag down on the photo, and it will pull in contrast on areas and make it darker and weaker or.

Arnold00:27:52

Yeah, I know that they say the phones.Yeah, you can.We filmed this movie on the phone, and there's like 50,000, you know, buttons on the back here.You know, lenses and stuff on the back phone Now.

Speaker D00:28:03

Yeah.It seems like the iPhone possibly might have the best camera, but the capability of a phone versus a camera is pretty high because you're using pretty much the auto settings on a phone.Unless you're dialing, unless you know what settings are, unless you're a photographer, you can't.You don't even know what you're doing with the F stops and the ISOs and stuff like that.And I'm literally just learning day by day what an F stop and an ISO is.The isolation is how much light you're allowing in your camera, stuff like that.But if you don't know the settings on your phone, you're just gonna.It's gonna be a weak photo, possibly.You know what I mean?

Arnold00:28:40

Yeah.

Speaker D00:28:40

With your can.With your camera, you can dial in the settings, and right when you turn your camera on, they're already ready to go.A lot of times with the creative shot setting, it's like an almost an auto mode where I don't have to worry about what it looks like.I could just.Boom, boom.Yeah.And so Photo Editor is a simple app that anybody could use.

Arnold00:28:59

Now, we were talking also before the break about when you are looking at.Maybe you're at Soulard Art Gallery and you see somebody else's photographs, or I know there's another photographer who comes to St. Louis and he takes shots.You know who I'm talking about?

Speaker D00:29:14

Sure.

Arnold00:29:15

And when you see these, does it get you excited?Does it go, man, I want to follow this guy, or I want to see his stuff in person or her stuff in person, or what does it do for you?

Speaker D00:29:25

I'm more of a competitive type person.

Speaker B00:29:28

There you go.

Speaker D00:29:30

Rather than follow you, I will outdo you.Do you, man?Like, if I see a shot that's similar in my perspective or something that I'm, like, admired by, I'm like, okay, now I really got to get it going.This guy's trying to bark up the wrong tree here.I really just try.I try to be as like a sports athlete would.You can't knock me out.You can't.You can't outwork me.And that's kind of like.I try to stay in my own head.I very rarely will go through my Instagram algorithm and see.See what other people are doing.

Speaker E00:30:01

Okay.

Speaker D00:30:01

I will look at my page and see, what else can I do now?

Speaker B00:30:04

Okay.

Speaker D00:30:04

Where can I go next?Occasionally, I'll just get an idea of where to go.

Arnold00:30:08

Okay.

Speaker D00:30:09

Like late.There's an art show photography competition on Laclede's Landing.It's connected to Art Fusion.It's a new art gallery.So there's a photo competition I just recently entered in.I.There was two available submissions that you can enter.I entered in two photos, but then I have a thousand.

Arnold00:30:26

Hey, good zillion.

Speaker D00:30:26

I got a thousand really good Laclede Landing photos.And did I really.Did I just pick those two?So I don't know ever.I just try to stay in my own head.If I do see a good photographer, I literally just.I just.In my head, I know what I got to do next.I got to beat him.I got to outdo him.

Speaker B00:30:42

Yeah.

Speaker D00:30:43

And I just really just try to be creative.And how I outdo somebody, I don't try to be tacky about it.They know what I'm doing when they see it.

Arnold00:30:50

Yeah.He's staying in his lane.

Speaker C00:30:53

Yeah.Don't even come into my life.

Speaker D00:30:56

I'm very scared of heights, so this is a very good thing.This is a very good comparison.So there's a guy in St. Louis, he likes to get on top of buildings, hang his feet off.That's the only thing he does.But he does that really well.

Arnold00:31:07

Yeah.

Speaker D00:31:07

And he's not scared of heights, obviously, but I am.I'm not going to get on the top of that building.For one.I don't know how you did it, but I'm.My rendition of the photo, I think is really cool.The reflecting pool of the arch is right next to the arch.I stuck my feet over the edge of the reflecting pool.And now you see my.My feet above the arch.So now I just rotated the image.And so instead of my feet being below, it's now above the arch.And then I'll tap the water to add my own vibration.And next thing, a heart appears in the water.Because, like, when the heart.When the arch breaks away from each reflection, it will turn into a little morphed shape.A lot of times it will turn into an eight or just a circle.But it literally formed a heart as soon as I tapped it and took the photo.

Arnold00:31:54

And when did you discover that?

Speaker C00:31:56

Wow.

Speaker E00:31:58

Yeah.

Arnold00:31:58

Was it by accident?You.I know you dropped.Drop something to get that.

Speaker D00:32:02

I think.I think water.I'm just really connected to water.And I know I. I know I do reflections really well.That's what my go to.I know.And to reflect on our lives, to reflect on what we're actually doing right now, I kind of go to water.You know what I mean?It's just my.My go to.It's just.You can't.It has so much energy.It has so much knowledge.Not.They say water can carry knowledge and I believe that's true.It just.I just.I think it's smart when I go towards the water and look within.

Arnold00:32:33

Yeah.

Speaker D00:32:33

And when you find what's within, it just gets deep and deep like water.

Arnold00:32:38

Yeah.I'm looking at a shot here from Forest Park.You've got this leaf.This dead leaf is in the foreground and then the bandstand is in the background.And then it kind of shifted there.I need to go back there.I really encourage you folks.Go to Adam waynearts on Instagram.Adam Wayne, underscore.We'll post these on the POD page and you need to take a look at that.So your current displays are at the Gateway Arch.At Gateway Arch STL or at Soulard Art Gallery.The Arch Store.STL Style house.

Speaker D00:33:16

Yes.

Arnold00:33:16

Okay.And you have a website.

Speaker D00:33:20

It's more of a portfolio website.If someone needs to say, hey, you have a website.That's it really.It's literally something I just created for.When I submit to art shows.I have a link for them to look at what I do.More or less.My website is Instagram.It always has been.So I had a bigger page.It got hacked.It got taken away and got taken down.I started a new page.It didn't break.Erase me.It just erased me for a period of time.

Arnold00:33:51

We'll post that on.There's all of these links that we will put there.So for the.And we may have done this on the first show.I don't recall.So for the budding photographer who is in maybe elementary school or middle school or high school or college or maybe they're middle aged or maybe they're more seasoned like Mark and I.Mark and me, I should say.Got my proper grammar.

Speaker C00:34:12

I see.Always include me in this and season stuff.

Arnold00:34:15

I know we have more seasoning going On.

Speaker C00:34:18

Okay.We're a little spicier as we smellier too.

Speaker E00:34:22

Yeah.

Speaker C00:34:23

Okay.

Arnold00:34:23

What do you say to somebody who's starting out?

Speaker D00:34:26

Oh, so basically, find your own style.It's like if you've.Find what you like to do.Like I was saying before, once you love it, you'll do it well and you'll want to find different ways to do it better.You'll be motivated to do it.So just find something you real and then just have that be your focus.So there's a lot of people that will just.I'm looking at a fan.There might be a lot.There might be a guy that just takes pictures of fans and does very well because people love old retro fans.You know what I mean?And then if you dial into just the pattern it makes, you could really just hone in on anything and make it very good looking.

Arnold00:35:02

Yeah.

Speaker D00:35:03

There's product photography.There's.There's plenty of styles of photography.I just feel like if you find something that you love, you're gonna do it well.Just be unique.Don't.Don't worry about trying to be like the next guy.That's what I always say.Just find your own style, be your own self.

Arnold00:35:19

And you think about that.There's portrait photography.There's landscape, there's urban, there's rural, there's.

Speaker B00:35:26

Yeah.

Speaker D00:35:26

And then there's styles of portrait photography, you know, so you can just make your own style happen by experience.Practice makes perfect.I've been doing this for 10 years and every day I come up with some kind of creative framing.I love to creative frame things around things.So if I see something, then I'll look around me.Oh, I can go over there and frame it from that looking from that angle.

Speaker C00:35:51

I like that.

Speaker D00:35:52

It just, it just really captivates the eye.I just like to look what's around me and then use that as my composition.

Arnold00:35:59

You're more aware of your surroundings than most people are when they're just kind of.

Speaker C00:36:02

Yeah.

Arnold00:36:03

Tooting around.

Speaker C00:36:03

I like the framing of a picture.I think it's really important.

Speaker D00:36:06

Yes, it really is.It pulls you in.

Arnold00:36:09

Kind of like that one.

Speaker C00:36:10

Yeah.Oh, yeah.Beautiful.Yeah.

Speaker D00:36:15

So that, that particular photo that you're looking at is a mural on graffiti wall.The graffiti wall.That artist who did that mural bought that, purchased that from me.

Arnold00:36:24

Oh, wow.

Speaker D00:36:24

So you knew.I knew I was onto something when the art.The mural artist who does my mural.

Arnold00:36:28

Yeah.

Speaker D00:36:29

Buys a metal print of his work.Yeah.Because he loved the shot so much.And it really is all about Angle.Yeah, angle.Light the day, the time of day.And then I added, there's a ripple in the water there.

Arnold00:36:43

Okay.

Speaker D00:36:43

I added my own little vibration to it to make it less.It's easy to reflect the photo on photo editor.You could just reflect itself with itself this way.It's not.It's a reflection.It's a genuine reflection.

Arnold00:36:57

So it was wet then.

Speaker D00:36:58

Yes, obviously.

Arnold00:36:59

I can see how this would be great on metal.

Speaker D00:37:00

Yes.Yeah, that's.I actually sold that.That metal print a few times to the artist itself.And then just recently at Art Fusion at an art gallery.

Speaker C00:37:10

Wow.

Speaker D00:37:12

30 By 40 metal.

Speaker C00:37:13

Show it again on the camera if you got.Do you still have it?

Speaker D00:37:16

And I call that one time is money.I'm not sure what the artist calls it, but I call time is money.

Speaker C00:37:21

Yeah.That's neat.Yeah.

Speaker D00:37:24

So every year that.That mural artist gets the same spot too.So I've actually taken multiple years and he's bought in multiple pictures.

Arnold00:37:33

Oh, that's cool.

Speaker D00:37:34

And he's got the same spot every year.It is a cool place.

Arnold00:37:37

So, folks, you need to go to Adam Wayne Underscore Arts on Instagram and check out his stuff.And oh, my gosh.And if you're so inclined, which we were.Get some.Get some.Because you're supporting somebody who's doing something that's creative and is what I'm going to say, a passion.

Speaker C00:37:55

I'm telling you what.

Speaker D00:37:56

Yeah.

Arnold00:37:56

And you don't see these kinds of images when you're just walking up and down the street unless you're looking for them, unless you have that kind of eye.And so what it does is it makes you really appreciate.Like you said at the very beginning, I didn't know St. Louis was so beautiful.Mark and I, we know that.But you make beauty come out.We always talk about the ugly things.

Speaker D00:38:18

Interesting enough that Budweiser can.Photo.

Arnold00:38:20

Yeah.

Speaker D00:38:21

Is my most selling shot.I probably sold about $10,000 worth of photography.

Arnold00:38:25

Have you sold one to AB?

Speaker D00:38:27

I actually.I actually participated in Bingo Night at AB and I gave away that print at bingo night at a B.You know what?There is a guy who has that.He's.He got a.He got a brand new job.I'm not sure of his name.They.I got it on my message board that someone had gifted my Budweiser picture to one of the head CEOs of Budweiser.So it's in their office.Good.Yeah.So he was gifted my photo as a present.

Arnold00:38:54

All right.

Speaker D00:38:55

And someone had purchased it from an art fair.Somewhere.Because I do quite.Like I said, I've sold over $10,000 worth of photos.Just that one photo.

Arnold00:39:04

There's a lot of art fairs.There's the one in Webster.There's one in Clayton.

Speaker B00:39:09

Yeah.

Speaker D00:39:10

So that's one another thing I'm doing.I'm starting to put myself in places where I could sell more photography.

Arnold00:39:15

Yeah.

Speaker D00:39:15

Than ever.

Speaker C00:39:16

I think it's great.You find.It's like.It's like a musician.They have that one song.

Arnold00:39:21

Oh, yeah.

Speaker D00:39:21

Like I was saying, like, you will.You want to build a legendary status, so you got to make classics happen.

Speaker C00:39:26

Right.

Speaker D00:39:27

You got to make that.It's hard to do to make a classic.

Speaker C00:39:29

Yeah, that's true.But you've got a couple that.It's like, this is it.Yeah.That's just gonna.

Speaker D00:39:35

It's not gonna.It's gonna stay away.So stay around forever.It's almost like a legendary shot.

Speaker C00:39:39

Yeah.

Speaker D00:39:40

You know the Rally Squirrel?Remember the Rally Squirrel?You remember Glory?Remember the song Gloria?

Speaker C00:39:44

Sure.

Speaker D00:39:44

I know I'm doing sports analogies, but these are familiar things.They stick with you.

Arnold00:39:48

Yeah.

Speaker D00:39:49

And I.And that's what I want to do with the photo.I want.And not every photo is going to do it, but it stuck with me.Every time I see a photo that I've taken, I know exactly what I was.I'm bad with memory, but I know exactly what I was doing that day.I know exactly what feeling I had when I took that photo.So that's what a photo.

Arnold00:40:04

Every time we're at the art museum, I think about that photo.

Speaker D00:40:07

I appreciate that.

Speaker C00:40:08

Thank you so much, Adam.We're lucky to have you in St. Louis, honestly, capturing us.

Arnold00:40:14

Yeah, I agree with that.

Speaker C00:40:15

I do.I think that's very true.So we're very happy to have you.

Arnold00:40:19

Thanks for coming in.We're going to take a brief hiatus and you're welcome to stick around because we're going to see what days of the day.Maybe it's the International Day of Photography or something in there.Who knows?Mark's the expert at that.And then I come in with some sometimes lame jokes.But we want to make people laugh also.So.This is Arnold Strick with Mark Langston of St. Lucian.Tune.We've been talking to Adam Wayne.Go to Adam Wayne.Underscore Arts on the Instagram.

Speaker B00:40:41

We'll be right back, folks.

Speaker C00:40:42

Thank you.

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Arnold00:43:00

Welcome back to St. Louis in Tune.This Arnold Stricker with Mark Langston.Adam's sticking around here where he's waiting to hear our wonderful days of the.

Speaker B00:43:08

Day and what humor we're going to.

Arnold00:43:10

Bring to the world today.

Speaker C00:43:12

Thanks, Adam.Adam signed one of the, one of the photos that's here in the studio.

Speaker B00:43:18

Official.

Speaker C00:43:19

Yeah.Next time he's in, we'll get one of those silver pens and you can sign the other ones.They just, they're a dark background and I think.Yeah.

Arnold00:43:29

Collector's items.

Speaker C00:43:30

Yeah.I really like.Yeah.And we love these photos and people do they come in?They think it's great.

Speaker D00:43:37

Like an online company to do it.

Speaker C00:43:39

Yeah, yeah.Yeah's the guy.

Arnold00:43:42

Mark, what do you got there?

Speaker B00:43:43

Oh, what's the day?

Arnold00:43:44

Today?

Speaker C00:43:44

Today is the 20th.Let me see if I can see what's happening today.Today is now.

Arnold00:43:51

Folks, when you listen, this may not.

Speaker C00:43:52

Be the 20th International Chef Day.That almost goes with what Adam does.

Arnold00:43:58

Food.They're artists.

Speaker C00:43:59

I know.Miss American Rose Day.Don't.All right.

Arnold00:44:02

What?

Speaker C00:44:03

National Day of writing.

Arnold00:44:05

Writing W R I T or R I D I n?

Speaker C00:44:08

No, no.Writ I N. Oh, yeah.

Arnold00:44:10

Kids need to do more of that in school.

Speaker C00:44:12

National share the warmth Day.

Arnold00:44:14

It should be every day.

Speaker C00:44:14

I know.National Youth Confidence Day.Pharmacy Technician Day.Nothing really.

Arnold00:44:22

Except during 1:30 to 2, they're off.On that day,.

Speaker C00:44:27

I always go.

Arnold00:44:29

That's when I go to work.

Speaker C00:44:30

Do you?

Arnold00:44:30

Yeah.

Speaker C00:44:30

It's like I get there, we're gone for lunch.Seriously?You sure do.

Arnold00:44:34

It's the deal.You guys can't stagger it.

Speaker C00:44:37

Oh, yeah, yeah.Talent Transformation Day.I'd have to open that up and say, what in the world is that?World Osteoarthritis Day.

Arnold00:44:46

Oh, yeah.Got some of that.

Speaker C00:44:47

You do already?Okay.World Statistics Day.National Writer Review Day.

Arnold00:44:55

That's for those writings.

Speaker C00:44:56

Back to the Future Day.

Arnold00:44:58

Are we talking about the movie or the book?

Speaker C00:45:01

It's the movie.

Arnold00:45:02

Okay.

Speaker C00:45:02

It's the Back to the Future movie.Yeah, yeah.

Arnold00:45:04

That's a.Has a U City connection.

Speaker C00:45:05

Yeah, yeah.Tell us.It was.

Arnold00:45:08

The author of that was.Went to University City High School.Yeah, we.His.One of his brothers was one of our classmates.

Speaker C00:45:13

Is he on the wall of fame at uc?

Arnold00:45:16

I believe he is.

Speaker C00:45:16

Okay.Why aren't you on that?

Arnold00:45:18

I'm probably on the floor.

Speaker C00:45:20

The Floor of fame Count your buttons Day.Do you have any buttons?

Arnold00:45:24

Buttons on today.

Speaker C00:45:25

Today is.Count your buttons, Dan.Maybe you have one button.Okay.

Arnold00:45:30

Holding my pants up.

Speaker C00:45:31

Button it up, brother.Okay.We don't need to know that.Okay.

Arnold00:45:34

You asked.

Speaker C00:45:35

I know.National Apple Days coming up.And we're gonna wrap this up here.Let's see.National Check your meds Day.Check your meds Day.I know.National Reptile Day.National Police Commemoration Day.Let's see.And Unity Day is coming up.

Arnold00:45:55

It should be every day.

Speaker C00:45:56

Boy, that was a lot of days.That's our.The Congress, Adam.They vote all these things in.I know.Instead of working on the gas prices, they're working on days of the week.

Speaker E00:46:09

So here.

Arnold00:46:09

I love signs.Signs have they just everywhere.They have some unbelievable kinds of Things on me.Follow me.I'm funnier than your ex.Send this to the one who laughs first.Then there's a sign that said, seals are just dog mermaids.

Speaker C00:46:26

What?

Arnold00:46:27

Seals are just dog mermaids.

Speaker C00:46:29

That's what I thought you said.

Arnold00:46:30

There's a sign that says, caution.This sign has sharp edges.Do not touch the edges of this sign.I don't get nearly enough credit for the things I manage not to say.

Speaker C00:46:46

That's.There's a lot of truth to that.

Arnold00:46:48

The older I get, the more I understand why cats just walk away mid conversation.

Speaker C00:46:56

I know that guy.

Arnold00:46:59

Today's specials.Now, this is from across the pond, okay?This is from England.Today's special.Coffee, £3.Cake, £4.Petting the cafe cat, free.But he decides, not you.He has refused 11 people today.

Speaker C00:47:15

You should do it again, though, in a British accent.No, don't.Don't.Just don't.I'm sorry.I even suggested.

Arnold00:47:21

He knew I would do it.All our visitors bring happiness.Some by coming, others by going.

Speaker C00:47:28

Take a bow.

Speaker B00:47:30

Are you busy, my dear?

Arnold00:47:32

That entirely depends on the rest of the information you're about to give me.

Speaker C00:47:38

I don't know, Adam.

Arnold00:47:39

Those tattoos will make it harder to get a job, okay?So will your personality.

Speaker C00:47:43

Don't talk to.Adam's got a couple tats.

Speaker D00:47:46

They're brand new, too.

Arnold00:47:47

Yeah.Oh, please do not.This is a sign.Please do not drop your cigarette butts on the ground.The fish crawl out at night to smoke them and we're trying to get them to quit.Birds poop every 15 minutes.How long have you been standing here?

Speaker C00:48:04

There's so much to say, but I can't do it.

Arnold00:48:06

I got another one here.

Speaker C00:48:07

No, you don't.

Arnold00:48:08

Touching wires causes instant death.$200 Fine.In the doctor waiting room, there's a sign that says, if you die while waiting, please see the doctor to cancel your appointment.Then there's the sign.You've seen these.Everybody's seen these, folks.You've seen this thousand, million times.Employees must wash hands.But then in one restroom, there was a sign next to it said, if no employee is present, you may wash your own hands.

Speaker C00:48:37

Wow.

Arnold00:48:41

We broke up, but he said we could still be cousins.

Speaker D00:48:43

Oh.

Speaker C00:48:45

Oh, that's from Arkansas.That's where they invented the two shoes.Anywhere else, it would have been the teeth brush.

Arnold00:48:52

Then from Scotland.Underwear must be worn with kilts when wind exceeds 25 km.

Speaker C00:49:03

That was like a triple.

Arnold00:49:06

Manly.

Speaker C00:49:09

Adam's on to you.

Speaker E00:49:10

There you go.

Arnold00:49:11

Okay, folks, that's all for this hour.

Speaker B00:49:12

Thanks for listening.

Arnold00:49:13

If you've enjoyed this episode, thank goodness you can listen to additional shows@stluntune.com and follow us and leave a review.Thanks to Bob Bertha Self.

Speaker C00:49:22

Wait, wait.Maybe you should tell them to leave a review.

Arnold00:49:24

Don't leave a review about the joke.Leave a review about the content that we have when we talk to people.

Speaker B00:49:31

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Arnold00:49:33

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Speaker B00:49:36

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Arnold00:49:37

Of our community of curious minds.

Speaker B00:49:38

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Arnold00:49:40

Of Motif Media Group and the US Radio Network.Remember to keep seeking, keep learning, walk worthy, and let your light shine.For St. Louis in tune, I'm Arnold Stripper.Sam.