Fort Worth: A Groovy Place to Meet Like-Minded Individuals

When it comes to meeting people with like minds and skill sets, Fort Worth is a great place to do so. From professionals to entry-level students to senior citizens, the city has something for everyone. This diversity of demographics creates a unique opportunity to connect with individuals from various walks of life. Whether you're interested in aviation, photography, or simply want to explore the local culture, Fort Worth has plenty to offer.

The City's Rich Aviation History

One of Fort Worth's most notable attractions is its rich aviation history. The city is home to the National Air Dog Fight Museum and the Fort Worth Aviation Center, both of which showcase the significance of flight in American history. Visitors can also attend vintage aircraft events as part of the Fort Worth Photo Fest, which celebrates the intersection of art and technology.

The Fort Worth Zoo: A World-Class Destination

Fort Worth is home to the world's first and only African lion exhibit, a world-class zoo that attracts visitors from all over the globe. The zoo features over 7,000 animals representing more than 500 species, making it one of the largest zoos in the United States.

Museums and World-Class Restaurants

In addition to its many attractions, Fort Worth is also home to numerous museums and world-class restaurants. The Amon Carter Museum of American Art is a must-visit for art lovers, with an impressive collection of American paintings and sculptures from the 19th century to the present. For foodies, the city offers a wide range of cuisines, from Tex-Mex to fine dining.

Photography and Community

When it comes to running a camera store in today's digital age, community is key. According to Mackenzie, owner of Fort Worth Camera, "Community is a big part of what we do." By fostering relationships with customers and creating a welcoming atmosphere, the store has managed to thrive despite the rise of online retailers like Amazon and B&H Photo.

The Power of Community

Mackenzie's emphasis on community highlights the importance of building connections with customers. For small businesses, this means going above and beyond to create a loyal customer base. By providing exceptional service, hosting events, and engaging with the local community, Fort Worth Camera has established itself as a beloved institution in the city.

The Experience of Photofest

Photofest, an annual event celebrating photography and the arts, is a highlight of Fort Worth's cultural calendar. The festival features live music, performances, and exhibitions showcasing the work of local photographers. Attendees can also expect to see psychedelic light shows, including an overhead projector performance inspired by the iconic Jimi Hendrix experience.

A Night at the Studio

The studio where Mackenzie and the host discussed photography and community has a unique history. According to Mackenzie, "This is my home," although she had recently sold all of her furniture. The space has become a popular spot for locals to comment on, with many people expressing surprise that anyone could live in such an empty room.

Conclusion

Fort Worth is a city that truly has something for everyone. From its rich aviation history to its world-class museums and restaurants, the city offers a wealth of attractions and experiences. Whether you're interested in photography, community, or simply want to explore the local culture, Fort Worth is a great place to visit or live. With events like Photofest and the dedication of businesses like Fort Worth Camera, the city continues to thrive as a hub for creativity and connection.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso every year in the spring my local camera store which is called fort worth camera they are quite awesome they do this big week-long festival called fort worth photo fest last year it didn't happen for obvious reasons well it's sort of back on this year and i'm getting pretty excited about this i have agreed to speak i am doing a presentation this is going to be on wednesday may 19th at 7 00 pm i'll put a link in the show description you should come out i think it's going to be fun right now this is how it stands wednesday may 19th 7 to 8 30 pm the art of photography comes alive with ted forbes he is appearing at the 2021 fort worth photo fest this is a special presentation you will not want to miss it's a special presentation all right i have no idea what i'm going to be talking about actually i do have kind of an idea of what i'm going to talk about it's going to be about creativity and composition i'm going to kind of riff go a little further with some of the things we've been talking about in recent videos if you've been keeping up but here's the deal so mackenzie hughes who is the mastermind behind this whole operation and runs the fort worth camera store itself he's going to come by in a few minutes he hadn't seen the studio yet i kind of figured well you guys probably haven't seen the studio in a while so we'll do a little tour i want to get him to talk a little bit about photofest because it's way more than just my presentation and it actually is a lot of fun and it is really cool so uh anyway he's supposed to be such good timing i am in back how do i get in you're supposed to say speed speed yeah because in the old days they had turned the audio tape on and and it would have to be up to speed and then they would know i guess it slowly ramped up i don't ladies and gentlemen this is my dear friend do you want to be mckinsey or mac i i'd like to be mackenzie mckenzie this is mackenzie hughes he uh so earlier in this video before you showed up i did a little hey here's what we're doing and i talked about my local camera shop being fort worth camera of which thank you i'm an ambassador it sounds like i wear a cool hat and have a translator but uh but i don't think so anyway so here we are and now i am part of photofest this year with the ted forbes experience which we will define soon um it's gonna be great i i promise you but how many years have we done photo fest now or by we i mean you thanks yeah uh this will be the sixth annual even though the seventh year because we didn't do it in 2020. i mentioned that too last year was was i think for fairly obvious reasons yeah no go but uh so far i was asking before we started rolling the cameras how it was looking and so far so good right fantastic we have over 1400 registrations 40 events over nine days okay so it's a little longer than a week yeah it's in fort worth and there is stuff every day i'm going to put the website link below so people can click on it and see there literally is stuff every day like multiple things i don't know how you do this this freaks me out to even think about but like i need a nap every day that's as far as i go but well yeah that's why actually when we we decided to actually have a hotel sponsor for that very so i could have enough um but our friend dixie dixon is doing an event which is going to be very good dixie dixon will be there and her crew uh world famous i dare say and folks like eric jang and kedran franklin and ted forbes even he's he's all right we're gonna be there yeah he's at 20. thanks yeah do you get outside people coming in do you get out we do 2019 i tell you we had people from portland oregon and northern california and l.a and seattle of course the surrounding texas areas which of course texas is pretty big it's a pretty big draw but anything drivable you would you know certainly austin oh yeah um and i you know i can't think of anything at least in the texas area that is like this they houston has a photo but it's a different it's like a different deal yeah it's a different feeling with all due respect to the houston photo fest that's really kind of a gallery thing which is cool but it's not like what we're doing here this is not like what we're doing here what we're doing here is more of a uh i dare say not to compare it to another event a south by southwest of photography because this is a fully interactive experience everybody with any type of photographic interest can participate and actually play with your camera and get to experience photography on a whole another level and a way to try out new gear and see new places meet people is the biggest thing this is actually a social event that's not online and you can and it's always been that way you can actually meet people with like minds and like skill sets from professionals to entry levels students to senior citizens it's it's for everyone it is everyone fort worth is a groovy place it is i can speak with a little bit of authority because i'm not from here i moved here gosh it'll be seven eight years ago in the fall and fort worth has a lot going on for it that i when i first got here i felt we had to really take advantage of there's a rich aviation history like we're just talking about there are vintage aircraft events as part of the fort worth photo fest um there are classroom events talking about aviation but then there's an amazing zoo here in fact radio number one of the nation it is pretty cool we've got famous locales like world-class museums world-class restaurants lots of cool stuff going on in fort worth photographically it's a fantastic place the first time that we met oh do you remember this we were we were both asked to talk at as part of a series that the eamon carter museum was doing yes and at a camera it was on not at a bar it was fun no one i wish we should have met at the bar first but we didn't know each other but the uh it was on pieces in their collection and i chose an abaddon and you chose a west and and you were that's when i found out you were transplant from southern cow northern northern cal sorry northern california i messed that up all the time yeah that's worse than it's mistaken us from dallas well you know it's also funny because i i think that's part of why we bonded because we were both not from here but but a small town it's not a small town but it's a small it's a big small town in texas fort worth is a big small town and it's a cool town and one of the best camera stores that uh and come on man don't be humble it really is it's easily in the metroplex maybe in the state i'm not going to argue with you don't argue with me now it's a good one and it's uh i signed on as an ambassador i have met people through that you are very you talked about this in our museum talk because i spoke first embarrassed myself thoroughly and then mackenzie came on and like kept it smooth but like when you came in you were talking about running a camera store in today's age when you're competing with amazon and the big boxes and and community is a big part of what you do and you you sense that when you go into fort worth camera you have to cultivate a community yeah in order to survive and compete with online places be they b h or adorama or whatever and there's no disrespect intended to any of those online places at all because they serve a purpose however we do things differently and it's all about making sure that we can create a customer base that loves us and that's um there's a lot of metaphors to be learned about just small business these days running a camera store in the fort worth photo fest it's all about community it's all about bringing people together this is another video that we should do well we've talked about doing it actually but but uh you know the the modern times that we're in so real quick with photofest yes um photo fort worth photofest.com very good the link is under this video and you will if you scroll down you can see the events and if you want to sign up for these um what you do is you click it will take you over to eventbrite and then you can take care of your registration there and you'll get email confirmations and all that stuff and and the ted forbes experience will be i'm thinking with a name like that makes me think of jimi hendrix so i think psychedelic light show with an overhead projector i think i was thinking more like the merv griffin show dancing girls can we get the murph griffin set somehow it'd be better than this with the the doors behind us it's not bad i don't want to run through that door no do you like the studio i do i do stuff in here people comment on that they're like you don't have any furniture people think this is my home and then i sold everything do people know you live in fort worth no but they should go to the website fort worth photo fest the day photo with an f festival that's right dot com and then the dates are may 14th through the 22nd 14th to 22. so hope to see you guys there mackenzie thanks for coming on man brother oh we will do it again man and uh make sure there's plenty of japanese whiskey wherever we are we can do that that's essential see you guys in the next video until then laterso every year in the spring my local camera store which is called fort worth camera they are quite awesome they do this big week-long festival called fort worth photo fest last year it didn't happen for obvious reasons well it's sort of back on this year and i'm getting pretty excited about this i have agreed to speak i am doing a presentation this is going to be on wednesday may 19th at 7 00 pm i'll put a link in the show description you should come out i think it's going to be fun right now this is how it stands wednesday may 19th 7 to 8 30 pm the art of photography comes alive with ted forbes he is appearing at the 2021 fort worth photo fest this is a special presentation you will not want to miss it's a special presentation all right i have no idea what i'm going to be talking about actually i do have kind of an idea of what i'm going to talk about it's going to be about creativity and composition i'm going to kind of riff go a little further with some of the things we've been talking about in recent videos if you've been keeping up but here's the deal so mackenzie hughes who is the mastermind behind this whole operation and runs the fort worth camera store itself he's going to come by in a few minutes he hadn't seen the studio yet i kind of figured well you guys probably haven't seen the studio in a while so we'll do a little tour i want to get him to talk a little bit about photofest because it's way more than just my presentation and it actually is a lot of fun and it is really cool so uh anyway he's supposed to be such good timing i am in back how do i get in you're supposed to say speed speed yeah because in the old days they had turned the audio tape on and and it would have to be up to speed and then they would know i guess it slowly ramped up i don't ladies and gentlemen this is my dear friend do you want to be mckinsey or mac i i'd like to be mackenzie mckenzie this is mackenzie hughes he uh so earlier in this video before you showed up i did a little hey here's what we're doing and i talked about my local camera shop being fort worth camera of which thank you i'm an ambassador it sounds like i wear a cool hat and have a translator but uh but i don't think so anyway so here we are and now i am part of photofest this year with the ted forbes experience which we will define soon um it's gonna be great i i promise you but how many years have we done photo fest now or by we i mean you thanks yeah uh this will be the sixth annual even though the seventh year because we didn't do it in 2020. i mentioned that too last year was was i think for fairly obvious reasons yeah no go but uh so far i was asking before we started rolling the cameras how it was looking and so far so good right fantastic we have over 1400 registrations 40 events over nine days okay so it's a little longer than a week yeah it's in fort worth and there is stuff every day i'm going to put the website link below so people can click on it and see there literally is stuff every day like multiple things i don't know how you do this this freaks me out to even think about but like i need a nap every day that's as far as i go but well yeah that's why actually when we we decided to actually have a hotel sponsor for that very so i could have enough um but our friend dixie dixon is doing an event which is going to be very good dixie dixon will be there and her crew uh world famous i dare say and folks like eric jang and kedran franklin and ted forbes even he's he's all right we're gonna be there yeah he's at 20. thanks yeah do you get outside people coming in do you get out we do 2019 i tell you we had people from portland oregon and northern california and l.a and seattle of course the surrounding texas areas which of course texas is pretty big it's a pretty big draw but anything drivable you would you know certainly austin oh yeah um and i you know i can't think of anything at least in the texas area that is like this they houston has a photo but it's a different it's like a different deal yeah it's a different feeling with all due respect to the houston photo fest that's really kind of a gallery thing which is cool but it's not like what we're doing here this is not like what we're doing here what we're doing here is more of a uh i dare say not to compare it to another event a south by southwest of photography because this is a fully interactive experience everybody with any type of photographic interest can participate and actually play with your camera and get to experience photography on a whole another level and a way to try out new gear and see new places meet people is the biggest thing this is actually a social event that's not online and you can and it's always been that way you can actually meet people with like minds and like skill sets from professionals to entry levels students to senior citizens it's it's for everyone it is everyone fort worth is a groovy place it is i can speak with a little bit of authority because i'm not from here i moved here gosh it'll be seven eight years ago in the fall and fort worth has a lot going on for it that i when i first got here i felt we had to really take advantage of there's a rich aviation history like we're just talking about there are vintage aircraft events as part of the fort worth photo fest um there are classroom events talking about aviation but then there's an amazing zoo here in fact radio number one of the nation it is pretty cool we've got famous locales like world-class museums world-class restaurants lots of cool stuff going on in fort worth photographically it's a fantastic place the first time that we met oh do you remember this we were we were both asked to talk at as part of a series that the eamon carter museum was doing yes and at a camera it was on not at a bar it was fun no one i wish we should have met at the bar first but we didn't know each other but the uh it was on pieces in their collection and i chose an abaddon and you chose a west and and you were that's when i found out you were transplant from southern cow northern northern cal sorry northern california i messed that up all the time yeah that's worse than it's mistaken us from dallas well you know it's also funny because i i think that's part of why we bonded because we were both not from here but but a small town it's not a small town but it's a small it's a big small town in texas fort worth is a big small town and it's a cool town and one of the best camera stores that uh and come on man don't be humble it really is it's easily in the metroplex maybe in the state i'm not going to argue with you don't argue with me now it's a good one and it's uh i signed on as an ambassador i have met people through that you are very you talked about this in our museum talk because i spoke first embarrassed myself thoroughly and then mackenzie came on and like kept it smooth but like when you came in you were talking about running a camera store in today's age when you're competing with amazon and the big boxes and and community is a big part of what you do and you you sense that when you go into fort worth camera you have to cultivate a community yeah in order to survive and compete with online places be they b h or adorama or whatever and there's no disrespect intended to any of those online places at all because they serve a purpose however we do things differently and it's all about making sure that we can create a customer base that loves us and that's um there's a lot of metaphors to be learned about just small business these days running a camera store in the fort worth photo fest it's all about community it's all about bringing people together this is another video that we should do well we've talked about doing it actually but but uh you know the the modern times that we're in so real quick with photofest yes um photo fort worth photofest.com very good the link is under this video and you will if you scroll down you can see the events and if you want to sign up for these um what you do is you click it will take you over to eventbrite and then you can take care of your registration there and you'll get email confirmations and all that stuff and and the ted forbes experience will be i'm thinking with a name like that makes me think of jimi hendrix so i think psychedelic light show with an overhead projector i think i was thinking more like the merv griffin show dancing girls can we get the murph griffin set somehow it'd be better than this with the the doors behind us it's not bad i don't want to run through that door no do you like the studio i do i do stuff in here people comment on that they're like you don't have any furniture people think this is my home and then i sold everything do people know you live in fort worth no but they should go to the website fort worth photo fest the day photo with an f festival that's right dot com and then the dates are may 14th through the 22nd 14th to 22. so hope to see you guys there mackenzie thanks for coming on man brother oh we will do it again man and uh make sure there's plenty of japanese whiskey wherever we are we can do that that's essential see you guys in the next video until then later\n"