Cormac McCarthy and Photography 

“The Road” is one of my fav books, a true masterpiece. Great video Bryan

Look forward to your videos more and more. Every photographer should be prescribed 1-2 of your videos per month for their own well being. Thanks for the quality work and narration, and for teaching us all a little something each and every upload. You the man. Can’t wait to dive into some 4x5 this weekend hehe.

Cormic McCarthy is currently my favorite author. Amazing video as always. Thank you for doing what you do.

Extraordinary light & framing at 9:00

I love your photos, but I really enjoy how you tie a greater subject into each video with other artists (writers, other photographers, etc.). Keep up the great work, Bryan. Looking forward to the next one.

6:30 is a slapper

Thank you for the message.

I like having a personal project ongoing, it gives me something to return to fill up my inspiration tank when the commercial work is draining it

Just found your channel this morning. Really, really enjoy your work Bryan!

Patience and perspective is incredibly important. The image you captured of the FS silo is truly spectacular - One of the best images I have seen in a while. Keep up the good work my friend

8:44 was my fav!!!

Very nice video…plus you use Cormac that is my absolute fav author…I moved 9 times in the last 15 years, his books followed me everywhere. Keep it up with your work!!

Always enjoy your videos, Bryan. Another great one. Really dig your black-and-white work here. Thanks for sharing.

“Discount Grainydays” 🤣 I love your work dude.

Congrats on the publication!

Discount grainydays made me laugh hysterically.

another great video Bryan. I was stunned by the picture with the 506 reflection, it's hard to look away from and impossible to figure out, really well done. Clearly you can see!!

You left me inspired. I will go and take pictures of a bunch of actors now. I worked with a lot of writers over the last couple of years. Beginners, who were not sure that they will finish their first book when I took their portrait. Successful authors, who bought horses for the children with the advance. And the one or other nobel price winner. Some of them are quiet, some talk a lot. Some fear the camera, others don't care. But there is always an interseting conversation, and something new to learn. So thank you for another lovely video, Bryan.

Another great video. The Cormac McCarthy voice over is 'just perfect'.

Thanks again for the video Bryan. Cormac and film, a match made in...somewhere. I'm glad you put them together for us to contemplate and learn

The part about growth moving up no matter how fast really resonated with me man. Loved this whole video, I’m a huge fan of Cormac McCarthy and this was such a treat to watch and see how you took lessons from his words. If random folk came up to me asking what I was doing taking photos I tend to resort to my shell and gtfo. So it’s very inspiring to hear you engaging with people in a way that contributes to more work. Lovely video, and lovely guns at the end.

You always inspire Bryan. Enjoying your journey...

Bryan, thanks so much for your work and the inspiration you give. This video provided inspiration and encouragement for me in the middle of a difficult time-thank you!

great idea..

Great video Bryan!! Thanks for sharing.

These videos are elevating the potential for storytelling in photography videos, they're the best around.

I love Cormac McCarthy's writing. And photography. And your videos! Keep up the good work.

As a writer I will say it's okay and good to be perplexed by writing (high school English teachers be damned). I think it's criminal the way we're taught to vivisect and expect that everything should be clear or be easily made clear. Oftentimes in art, at least for me, the thing I love the most is that I can never quite wrestle something into clarity. I also resonate with your idea about having multiple forms/things to work on actually being good for the things you're splitting your attention between. Be that photography and writing or fiction and poetry in writing itself, they don't often draw from the same exact well, and doing multiple keeps you from trying to force an idea into the wrong form.

Another wonderful video dude, certainly inspired me to get out more. Also digging the gains from lifting all that large format gear 😂

Beautiful, as always Brian! :)

You really don't have to think you're not doing this good. You are doing this just as you feel to do it and this is for sure the right way, Bryan. It's not about making numbers on YT, yes, it's nice to have, but it really isn't the point of this. I think it's more about finding people who understand and share your work / art, and I am pretty sure, the people following you, follow you because they feel your photography. You are a big inspiration, please keep it just the way it is! Greetings from Germany :)

This is about the most targeted video towards me I've ever seen haha. Loved your photography for a while and am a huge fan of Mr. McCarthy -- check out his Border Trilogy, starting with "All The Pretty Horses".

The Road is one of the reasons I pursued my English degree, such a visceral book that affected me when I was in high school.

What a voice he has. Lovely video once again Bryan, loved the shots you got in both towns too 👌

You had me wih the title. Cormac is a hero. Great video, always dig the authenticity..

very inspiring, thank you.

I was actually talking with another photographer about Cormac McCarthy recently, I have yet to read his work but love the movie's based off his books. Excellent video and maybe not directly related to the subjects you were tapping on but I have been trying to use literature lately to inspire or guide images and your video just really made that idea all the more poignant. All the best!

Great video ... really enjoying your work ... Thanks

Your videos really help to get me in the mood after work to sit down for an hour or two and work on my current projects

The Road is epic x 10000

Thanks for the video.!

your videos keep me alive

Thank you for this video. You should also read The Road from him. I had some hard times these days, but you inspired me to go out tomorrow and take some photos. Thank you!

Great video man, really nice message, and you’re definitely inspiring me to shoot anyways!

Excellent Bryan thank you. This video did inspire me, truly. I appreciate it and the Cormac McCarthy insights are special. I’m pretty new to your channel so I have some library diving to do! I get the Grainydays reference and it’s funny but don’t do yourself down man - you’re damn good IMHO and I get more inspiration from videos like this. You should market yourself as ‘the thinking man’s/person’s Grainydays!’ Oh and 35mm is cool btw. 😁

Love your channel Ready for you photo book

Great video. Inspiring as always :)

You did a great photographic route of some of the vast McCarthy’s literary landscape. Thank you for this excellent piece, best regards from Mexico City.

The other night I watched one of your videos and commented only on the subject and I am sorry about that. That film like this one was a work of art in itself Your insights and willingness to follow through with the action part are terrific. Just keep on doing what you are doing. Clearly you are making art No higher calling my friend 👏👏👏

You and nick carver are the only real deals

To echo what everyone else is saying, The Road is one of the best books I've ever read.

Great video Bryan

Feeling left really inspired. Great ti see a variety of photos. A great mix of projects and personal.

I always feel like I get something great out of your videos. Either a lesson or inspiration or just some words I need to hear at the time so I thank you for that :) I always look forward to the next one. Also sick shirt :)

Well, I enjoyed that, not quite sure what it was all about and whether you were shooting 35mm all the way through or not. Funnily enough though, my latest acquisition a Nikon FE has been giving me considerable enjoyment loaded with HP5 where I took BTS images of a grasstrack meeting, soon to be part of a YT video. It just suited that oily, gritty, dusty subject material.

Man, could we sit down and talk. I met Cormac and totally missed a joke he told me. Blood Meridian is in my top three books of all time.

Wonderful video and photos! The only thing I hate about your videos...is that they seem to fly by so fast...they are always interesting!

Earned my sub man. Blood Meridian changed my life. Would love more people to discuss and when you said you want to dive into the themes, I'd love to hash that out with fellow like-minded individuals. Do you have a platform or something? I just wrote a western can be said to take some inspirations from Cormac novels as well.

Man shoot more 35. Love to see it.

Short Kings shoot 35mm :) . I love medium format, but for some reason I absolutely love a 35mm print over the same 6x7 one. Not a clue why!

Great video as always. Several have mentioned how great The Road is (and it is), but you should also check out Child of God.

Love the personal touch in your videos, especially the Analog Artisans series. Quick question, what app is that you are using to meter light?

wow greeeeat video! I really love your 35mm b/w frames.. may I ask which developer and recipe you use?

9:10 you've managed to do it

Just found your channel. I live in England This is a fine video and I think the photography is great. Right up my street. Subscribed.

Bryan I love Cormac McCarthy - avid fan of his writing. Great video, sincere and thoughtful as always, which leads into asking this - like everywhere else in North America the cost of gas is constantly rising, is that affecting your choices on locations, and obviously its also adding to the cost of shooting with film, will this now limit your ability of shooting film or will you become more selective on the locations you pick for your outings?

Hello Bryan, thank you for your work... can I ask you If you remove grain from yours film with Lr or Ps ? or what kind of film & developer you usually use.. Thank you for all!

Excellent video. Two modern cultural references to Blood Meridian you might find interesting. Ben Nichols of Lucero wrote an album of songs based on that novel. Here’s one example: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aqKX-1tfT8U.html And, just to add some levity to the seriousness of McCarthy’s work, the first episode on Mike Tyson Mysteries (Season 1, episode 1 called ‘The End’) features a Cormac McCarthy plot line. Thanks again for the video.They are a pleasure to watch, and a the work is routinely excellent. Cheers! pr

Get up, dress up, show up.

Sir you do not need a pop filter over you microphone. Lol it has a pop filter under the screen. You don’t have a studio microphone which do not have pop filters. It just looks silly every time I see you have this set up because it’s completely unnecessary. 😂

I see a Bryan birks video uploaded, I press play

Love the Cormac input about life. What a man. When he said, `I don't know who to be grateful to,' that is very very insightful. Most people don't get this far because it's way too threatening. It's threatening because it requires an answer. Cormac also said, You cant plot things out but just have to trust in wherever it comes from'. Trust is hard. We'd rather control. Art is like that. It delves into things we cant quantify. There's a story in the Old testament when Jacob struggles with a man all night. In the morning the man changes Jacob's name to Israel. The word Israel means `struggle'. Israel is the struggle with God/spirit/art. If you don't struggle you give up and get a real job. What do you give up on? well then.........

You inspire. I always find your work inspiring and your Videos seem to come out a time when I need a kick up the ass. So, thank you.

man… your channel is gold.. please don’t quit. your work motivates me a ton!