This is Super Bueno

Field notes on craft, consequence, and creative adulthood — for those learning to stay awake to the world.

This is not a travel blog or a memoir, it’s a column about learning to see. About finding meaning at the intersections of work and life, art and ambition, patience and purpose.

I write for photographers, creatives, and anyone navigating the middle distance between youth and mastery.

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Micah Albert Micah Albert

The Trouble With Genius

In this opening essay, I look back on the years I spent chasing stories across war zones and how that pursuit blurred into something harder to name. What begins as a portrait of conflict photography becomes an examination of endurance, ego, and the myths we build around “troubled genius.”

It’s about realizing that courage isn’t always about stepping into the fire—it’s about learning when to step away.

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