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Matt Payne

Oklahoma City
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Matt is the CEO of Prairie Surf Creative and a filmmaker, photographer and writer.

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Lauren Baca – Portrait of a Photographer

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By Matt Payne
| On Landscape - Any Questions
What does it mean to photograph something that could kill you? What kind of attention does it take to compose a frame when the subject is moving at highway speed, and the air around you is alive with rotation? And what does it say about photography as a practice that some photographers find their deepest creative clarity not in stillness, but in the controlled chaos of a supercell bearing down across the open plains?
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How Intention Changes Your Photography Original

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By Matt Payne
| PetaPixel Verified
I was four years old when my parents took me on my first mountain climb, to the summit of Fairview Peak. By six, I’d climbed my first fourteener, Mount Sherman. Climbing became my proving ground for most of my childhood, and it set a foundation I wouldn’t fully understand the value of for another forty years. Then life took me away from it: college, years lost to online video games, a marriage under strain. The birth of my son Quinn in 2007 was the wake-up call.
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What's New in Instant Apps (June 2026)

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By Matt Payne
| Esri
ArcGIS Blog The June 2026 ArcGIS Online update introduces new features and key updates throughout the site. The same applies for ArcGIS Instant Apps, as we have rolled out several updates and new features to our existing apps, further improved choosing and managing your apps on the Instant Apps home page, and addressed various bugs and enhancements to help stabilize and improve your experience across the site. See the highlights below.
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