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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

610 - Bill Ellzey (Landscape Photographer)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Bill first picked up a camera in 1965, at age 20, little knowing that photography would become his profession. Since then camera work has taken him to India, China, Australia, Japan, Mexico, Alaska, Egypt, Ireland, Bhutan, Zambia, Chilean Patagonia and the American West. Bill’s images have appeared in magazines, books, calendars, newspapers, catalogs, annual reports. In 1995 Bill moved to the San Luis Valley, took up residence in a travel trailer near Crestone, Colorado and started building a strawbale house.

Intro music “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range. Outro: “Smoke Alarm,” by Carsie Blanton.



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0:00.0

Rade humano papachango. Oh, Hi Chris, it's Henry here. I'm a 24-year-old British guy living in Germany, but at the moment I'm traveling in Norway and yesterday I took

0:36.8

this beautiful, beautiful train ride through across the country seeing glaciers and nature and it was absolutely stunning. But I just want to say a big

0:46.7

thanks for the podcast. I actually grew up in a Christian cult back in England but it's all over the world. It's actually originally

0:55.6

from Norway. But yeah this podcast really opened up whilst I was still in. I only left about

1:01.9

a year and a half ago and this podcast really taught

1:05.9

me how to open up my mind, take the blinkers off and think freely, which I'd never been able

1:11.4

to do before because I've just followed the rules and followed what everybody

1:16.7

else did in this cult.

1:18.5

But you really taught me how to think differently and question things and I've gone on an amazing journey over the

1:26.4

last year and a half since I left and live my best life I've never been happier and yeah

1:32.4

this podcast helped me but also also my older brother who's recently

1:38.1

left as well and he's now living in Argentina. So it's had a massive effect on our lives and yeah big

1:47.4

big thanks and big love to all of the weird and wonderful beautiful

1:51.5

listeners all across the world.

1:53.8

All the best things.

1:55.5

Damn, I love to get a message like that.

1:58.2

Thank you so much Henry.

1:59.4

I can hear the vitality and joy in your voice and it just makes me really happy. I don't know what it is

2:10.6

about this podcast because I have no history with any kind of cult or even sort of

2:19.7

religious background or anything.

2:30.5

But there do seem to be a lot of former Mormons, former Catholics, former believers in the audience, or at least they seem to reach out a lot and send me emails and intro memos like that which I am always so happy to hear.

2:47.8

Not that I see my role in life as corrupting the youth necessarily.

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