TAMPA, Fla. — Kevin Gausman’s wife, Taylor, is a lifestyle photographer. She takes family photos for the couple’s friends, relatives. She knows exactly what she’s doing with a camera in her hands.

Her husband, not so much. He decided to pick up the hobby on a whim during MLB’s 2020 pandemic season when he was wandering around San Francisco’s Chinatown, walked into an old photography shop, and walked out with a Minolta X-700 — a 35mm, single-lens film camera. Gausman’s devotion to the craft has fluctuated since. His procurement of expensive equipment hasn’t.

“Oh, she thinks I’m terrible,” Gausman says. “It’s funny because I’ll buy a new camera and she’s like, ‘You don’t even know what you’re doing with the camera you already have!’ She’s a fan of me getting into it because it’s something

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