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Meet Josh McNair from California Through My Lens

Josh McNair

Josh McNair, from the California through my Lens website, poses for Jefferson Graham in downtown Riverside, California, for an edition of Photowalks Talks


Count Photowalks as one huge fan of the California Through My Lens website and YouTube series, which explores the Golden State with informational blog posts and incredibly well-produced videos about what to do when visiting. 


So when I had the chance to meet up with the fellow photographer and traveler Josh McNair, who runs CTML with his wife Amy, I jumped at the chance. 


Josh has the dream job we all want–he travels for a living and gets to share his love of California with the rest of us. I love how he makes videos for the viewer in mind–what they might want to do on a visit, coupled with great photography for which he doesn’t get enough credit. (Check his Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/californiathroughmylens.com


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Check out his recent video, barreling down Route 66 with his dad. (Yes, again, he makes a living doing things like this!)


Or, the visit he and wife Amy took up to the Redwoods National Park in Northern California.


You might have seen the Photowalk Josh and I did of the Mission Inn festival of Lights in Riverside, which posted in December. If you can get into the Christmas spirit in early 2020, give it a click and check it out. 

Meanwhile, now I invite you to tune into our “Photowalk Talks,” chat, on the steps of a Riverside museum for a conversation about how Josh got started down this path, his favorite recent trip highlight and why he ignores the how-to advice from other YouTubers with his own rules for success: just make great content and people will respond. Click here to watch us in Riverside chatting, or click directly below to listen to the audio. 

Here’s a tidbit: Josh got started with a yen for travel, but quickly realized he just couldn’t afford to go to all the places he dreamt about, so he decided to just focus on his home state. “I figured, I don’t the time to time or money to travel the world, so figured, I’ll travel California. That was probably the best thing I ever did, because it gave me a cool little niche to explore.”  

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Vere p
Vere p
Jun 12

Just saw your route 66 video. It was awesome. Has made us consider a similar road trip before year's end.


Thanks for relaxing, informative videos.

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Julie Henniges
Julie Henniges
May 28

My almost 90 yr old mother - she has Alzheimer's - loves watching your videos. It is too difficult for her to follow plots of movies and tv shows, and since she is mostly homebound, cannot travel - but do we ever enjoy seeing our beautiful country through your lens! Just wanted to thank you so much for making the videos informative, fun, easy to understand (Mom especially appreciates you not talking too fast or using slang). We like them all equally - whether you are traveling with your Dad, or your wife and kids, or your friends/other relatives. Keep up the good work Josh!

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darlene_wdennison
Jan 06

Josh & Dad-I enjoy your videos until the music gets so annoying and I can't even hear you talk, so I have to stop watching. So many folks add "background" music, but it's so annoying...perhaps they should decide to make the intended video or a music video...they're different genres. Anyway, good job on your videos as far as I've been able to watch. I lived in Claremore for 4 years and noticed several historic places not in your Route 66 trip, for example Oklahoma Military Academy, one graduate was the WWII Army officer who in the Philippines led the last horse charge of the US Army and after being overrun by the japanese led the guerilla warfare against them. Keep…

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Michael Saltzgiver
Michael Saltzgiver
Mar 03, 2023

I just found your site while checking into other areas about travel, and I came across yours. My wife and I have been watching your videos several times, and wonder if you will be having any new ones on? Your videos are so interesting and we love the way you explain things that no others do. Do you ever take any of your family, besides your father on any of your trips? Mike & Sharon Saltzgiver saltymatez43@msn.com


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Brenda Allen Chichester
Brenda Allen Chichester
Feb 15, 2023

I just found your site and love watching your videos. I have been to some of the places and have liked seeing how they are many years after I have been there. I live in Nashville now but I am from West Virginia and have traveled the entire state. I think you would enjoy seeing and showing allot of that state. Lots of history and beauty. Check it out. Brenda Chichester chichi76@att.net

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