- What's up guys?
It's Andy Feliciotti, and 2020 is here.
(sound track cheering) So I thought what better way
to look back at the decade, than looking at old photos?
So I thought I'd show some of my old photos,
and some of my newer favorites.
And kind of pivotal points in my photography.
So let's hop right in.
If you've ever bought a DSLR you already know
you're taking photos like this and thinking
you're all artsy and cool.
A lot of my early photos are just depth of field
shots like this.
Oh, look at the boca.
This one's actually pretty cool.
You can see I've been going to the Capitol
for a very long time to take photos.
It looks really similar to a recent photo that I took.
I actually have a lot of photos of my car.
Then I started to learn Lightroom a little more,
and I guess I was cranking up the clarity in these photos.
We'll just scroll quickly through some of these.
Again, another car photo.
Any time I saw a cool car, I just wanted to take
a photo of it.
Oh, an old car with a sepia filter.
I thought I was so cool taking these photos. (chuckles)
The clarity's cranked up.
This is kind of when I first started learning HDR.
This photo's memorable to me,
because I don't know when I joined Instagram,
but I think I put this on Instagram way back in the day.
And this is when I first realized,
oh I can take photos from my big camera
and put it on my phone and upload it.
You actually got a notification when you got
on the Explorer page, back in those days.
All right let's move on to 2011.
Oh, look at the old school Tesla.
More cars, as usual.
This is from Instagram clearly
with the filter border on there.
This one I put on Flickr, and a big idol of mine,
that's Trey Radcliff.
And he actually commented on it, so it was really cool
to like see that.
The old school iPhone where the World Trade Center One
getting constructed in New York.
That's probably one of my first memorable times
going to New York.
Oh, and then I got my wide angle, whoo!
I thought I was so cool.
14 millimeter I think.
And you could see I have the some guy plate.
All right let's pop over to 2012.
Now we have two photos here.
Oh. (laughs)
I used to do a Christmas photo every year.
You can see the clarity is just, it's a little much,
a little much on that. (chuckles)
Oh, I think this is from Atlantic City.
All right let's go to 2013.
So this is actually when I got my first full frame,
my Canon 6D.
This is down at Glen Echo.
This was the first time that I ever headed out
and just took photos for the sake of taking photos.
University of Maryland, abandoned house on the hill.
Embassy of Sweden down in Georgetown.
The HCR effect is still heavy in these photos,
but you can kind of see that I'm getting the hang of it.
That was one of the first times I was down
to the cherry blossoms at night.
Great falls, using a wide angle
to get a long exposure there.
I think this is the first time that I got ND filters.
Capitol, you know of course.
2013 was also the year that I went to LA,
San Francisco, drove from LA to San Francisco.
This is a waterfall in Columbus.
Actually a deck built all over that area now.
I went back probably five years after this.
Union Station, got the wreaths going.
And of course the Capitol Christmas tree.
Let's see what was going on in 2014.
Oh, Lincoln Memorial under construction.
ND filter here, this is a sunrise of the cherry blossoms.
LA and San Diego, and all of the Laguna Beach
and all that.
So, this is actually from the first InstaMeet
I ever went to, it was hosted by
the Department of Interior.
I met a lot of people there.
Anthony Guantano, Angela Pann.
Yeah a lot of the people are still great friends today.
So, kind of like a big mind opening experience
for my photography.
This is actually my second trip to San Francisco.
Went to Yosemite for a day.
And I always thought a park was like a mile.
And when I went to Yosemite I'm like oh you could spend
a whole week here and not even see everything.
Like my mind was just blown by all this.
Also went to Austin this year for the first time.
This photo's actually from when Instagram
actually cared about the community.
So they had a weekend hashtag project.
But me and my buddy John went out and took some photos
with the balloons, it was a lot of fun.
More DC, first fall in Rock Creek Park.
Of course the Capitol under construction, Arboretum.
Okay, let's hop into 2015 here.
This is the cut fence north of the Capitol, Georgetown.
At this time I was actually doing a lot of
Skillshare classes and they were doing a lot of flat lays.
This was my second trip to Austin, 360 bridge.
Some DC streets.
(light digital music)
This is actually from I think my second meet up
where I met a lot more people that I know today.
Go Lightly, Phil Martin.
This is actually I think the first time
that I was learning how to use Photoshop.
I put together two exposure to make it look like
the trains were passing at the same time.
First trip to Seattle, I was really happy with this photo.
A lot of color editing and things like that.
You can see the purple on the top.
This is actually from the roof of my first apartment.
Another photo from the top of my old apartment.
BMW actually gave me an I8 for an hour.
The infamous red shoes.
First White House tour.
This is actually the year that Trey Radcliff
has a photo walk in DC.
One of the first times I did one of the levitating shots.
Fall in DC.
All right, let's head to 2016.
This is where I started getting a lot of pinker photos.
This is the kind of the photo that set off my Instagram.
I think Repost App reshared it,
which is now a deleted account.
But it had like 15 million followers.
I got like 9,000 followers overnight basically
from this photo.
If you follow me, it might actually be from this photo,
so I appreciate you and thanks for following.
Classic LA highway shot.
Sunset, I still love this photo,
the colors were just perfect.
Oh the magnifying glass, classic.
This was when I did a road trip up to Maine and all that.
The leaves in the foreground are actually real.
I spent like 15 minutes just throwing leaves
in front of my camera.
Also my first time to St. Louis,
visiting my girlfriend's family.
A lot of editing went into this one.
It's kind of like where I learned a lot
of that hazy effect that's in a lot of my photos now.
Fall, I think this was in Shenandoah National Park.
From my road trip up to Maine.
Let's head to 2017.
First time to Boston.
This was the day before inauguration, of course the Capitol.
Kusama, this is actually from my video.
This photo was the thumbnail for the video.
And a lot of people actually questioned how
I took a photo in this.
So we previewed it at the Horsham Museum.
And I guess someone either the next day,
or the day after that, fell and broke one of the pumpkins.
And they didn't allow photos in the room after that.
Another beautiful sunrise.
This is from my road trip with my buddy Phil.
Drone shot in New Mexico.
Monument Valley, probably my most favorite place
in the United States.
We probably spent three hours taking pictures there.
Yeah, just a magical place, it's really serene.
Joshua Tree, definitely recommend heading out there
if you have not.
LA, stars added, obviously.
San Francisco, got the bridge.
Oregon, this road trip we went all over, Seattle.
This is Glacier National Park, Chicago.
Me and my girlfriend went down for the eclipse in 2017,
the great eclipse of 2017.
First time flying in a helicopter,
very unique experience.
9/11 tribute.
2018, here we are. (claps hands)
Me and my girlfriend went to LA, had a great time.
Saw a lot of cool sights.
Her family also rents a house in Edisto,
so a lot of fun flying the drone out there
in South Carolina.
Sunrise at the Capitol, you knew I was gonna do it.
Sunset at (laughs) the Capitol,
you knew I was gonna do it.
Snowy scene in DC, fun walk around
the neighborhood with Megan.
Another shot from the LA trip.
First, or not first time, second time to Denver, Colorado.
Another Capitol shot, of course.
All right let's head to 2109.
So this photo's from the reading room
in the Library of Congress.
Botany Bay down in South Carolina.
So this is actually the second year on that trip.
Blood red moon with the stars.
This was actually taken in my backyard.
This moment was probably one of my favorite
moments of the year.
This was actually during the shut down
at the beginning of the year, the government shut down.
So all of the national parks didn't have funding,
so they didn't have any guards or anything like that.
It was really odd for that sunrise,
it was a great sunrise, but nobody was there.
Not even, you know the guards weren't there.
And spring, cherry blossoms, cherry blossoms, you know it.
Amsterdam, first time going out of
the country was this year.
Went to LA again this year.
I photoshopped that some guy on the plate.
Abandoned presidents' heads down in Croacker, Virginia.
This is actually, so the photo that I showed you
from the Washington Monument before,
I think this is actually the first time
I was there since then.
So like four or five years.
And it's funny, 'cause my friend Angela,
who I met at the first time there with her,
she actually got the tickets to go to the top.
So thank you Angela.
And then one of the last photos I have on here
is from fall in New Hampshire and in Vermont.
So this is actually in New Hampshire.
(cat meows)
Mister?
This is Mr. Whiskers.
He wanted to be in the video.
Overall a great decade, got to see a lot of things,
photograph a lot of things,
visit multiple countries.
This video wasn't meant to show off or things like that,
but I just kind of wanted to show
my progression through photography.
The more effort you put towards something
the more you're gonna learn it.
So, if you're thinking about getting into photography
I recommend it.
If you're thinking about traveling more,
not even taking photos, I recommend it.
I have never been disappointed,
either taking photos or traveling, both things.
Just I've always expanded my outlook on life.
No matter what point you started following me,
either 2010 or 2019, I just want to say thank you
for following me in this journey,
and supporting me at every point of my career,
I guess you could say.
Yeah, thanks again.
I hope everybody enjoyed this video. (laughs)
All right, see you.