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- Engagement 12.49%
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About Tyler McAuley
Tyler McAuley (@jm_photography23) is a Photographer creator on Instagram, also filed under Photography & Video. The account has 38,441 followers and 3,561 published posts. Recent posts average 5,653 likes and 72 comments, an engagement rate of 12.49%.
With 38.4K followers, Tyler McAuley is a micro creator by the common 10,000 to 100,000 definition. Tyler McAuley follows 4,271 accounts, so the audience is roughly 9 times the size of the list followed. Tyler McAuley carries Instagram's verified badge and uses an Instagram professional account. Flinque files Tyler McAuley under Photographer, with Photography & Video as a secondary category.
The Instagram bio for Tyler McAuley runs to 15 words across 4 lines. The bio tags #chicagophotographer. The bio mentions @500px and @tyler_mcauley_photography. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Tyler McAuley dates from October 2025.
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3,561 Posts
All 10 recent posts Flinque holds for Tyler McAuley are single images. With 3,561 posts published, Tyler McAuley's archive runs well past the 2,000 mark. Against the audience, that is roughly 11 followers for each post published. Tyler McAuley also keeps 13 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 223 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include dance, dancephotographer, something, part and yellowkorner. The captions tag #500px, #dance, #dancephotographer, #yellowkorner and #dancephotography.
That was the whole conversation. She took it for what it sounded like and kept going. It was two in the morning when I said it. The hat had happened a few days before…
I said she looked good in a hat.
By then it was a sentence I could hand over without making a mess. Light enough to survive the trip.
What I meant had started earlier.
She had my hat on and something in her had opened up. She was saying what she thought and leaving it there. Laughing from the middle of herself. Loose in a way that felt rare on her. Like for a little while she had set down everything she carries when people are around.
That was the part that stayed with me.
I said she looked good in a hat.
It was an easy sentence. The hat was right there.. The words were right there… So I used them….
Because what I meant was bigger than that. What I meant was that I caught the side of her she keeps saved back. The one that comes out late. The one that shows up when the guard slips and she quits holding every piece in place. The one that felt so fully her that it almost made every other version look rehearsed.
She heard a compliment. I was talking about something else entirely.
I said she looked good in a hat.
And she did. But that wasn’t the part I carried home.
What stayed with me was that for a little while she let me see what she’d been hiding. Maybe by accident. Maybe because the hour had worn the edges off everything. Maybe because that’s when people get closest to themselves.
I’m still in that room.
I don’t think I’ve left it.
… I said she looked good in a hat -
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#chicagophotographer #photographer #photography #500px #yellowkorner
She told someone that once. They said that’s beautiful. She’s been careful since about who she tells things to.
There’s a part of her that played it safe. She made that choice two or three times. She can feel those versions sometimes, like pressure in a room. They don’t haunt her. They make her tired.
Last year she sat with a student who had every technical thing and watched the girl do it correctly for an hour and felt something at the end that was close to grief. The girl will probably be fine. That’s not the point.
She goes home now. No music, or music that doesn’t mean anything to her. She does it because her brain still wants to and she respects that about herself in a way she didn’t for a long time, and that respect, honestly…it’s the thing she didn’t expect to become the whole thing. -
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#dance #dancephotography #dancephotographer #500px #yellowkorner
She taught kids at a studio off the main road. Six and seven year olds who hadn’t learned yet to be embarrassed by their own noise. She said that was the part she couldn’t explain. Standing in a room full of children who still thought rhythm was something the body just did. She corrected their posture and counted them in and some nights drove home with the sound still in her feet.
We talked for a while. She kept pulling at a thread on her sleeve and I almost said something about it and then understood that was part of it too. Letting one small thing go undone so the rest reads as deliberate.
I asked if she ever got tired of it. She said tired wasn’t the word. She said sometimes she forgets she’s playing and that’s when it gets strange. Because then she has to decide if the thing she just did was her or the game, and mostly she doesn’t want to know.
She looked at me when she said that like she was waiting to see if I’d make it into something. I didn’t.
After we finished she put her coat on and checked her phone and said she had a class in forty minutes. I watched her walk to her car. She was already someone else by the time she opened the door. And I thought about those kids, how they’d see her walk in and have no idea that an hour ago she was the stillest person I’ve ever been in a room with. How she’d clap her hands and count them in and mean it. How that’s the thing. She always means it. Every single version. -
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#dance #dancephotography #dancephotographer #500px #yellowkorner
When she came in she was already smiling and it was a good smile but it was the one she’d brought with her. Prepared. I didn’t start shooting. I asked if she wanted water and she said no and I got her one anyway. Eventually the smile dropped and what replaced it wasn’t sadness. It was just her face.
I’ve learned not to say “that’s better” when that happens. You say that and people realize what they were doing and it comes back.
She kept adjusting the collar of her shirt like she was checking it was still there. At one point she said “I don’t really know what to do with my hands” and I told her nobody does, ever, and she laughed for real and I took it and she heard the shutter and said “that doesn’t count”
There’s parts of someone that only exists in the minutes they forget they’re being photographed. You can’t ask for it. You can’t small talk your way into it. It shows up or it doesn’t. The whole job is just not scaring it off.
She asked to see the back of the camera once and I showed her one from early on, one of the prepared ones, and she said “oh that’s nice” and seemed relieved. I didn’t show her the ones that were actually good. She wasn’t ready to see herself like that.
Some people aren’t.
I sent her the files a week later and she wrote back and just said “oh.” Nothing else for a day. Then a longer message I won’t repeat because it wasn’t for anyone but me.
That’s the thing about this work. Sometimes you hand someone a photo and they go quiet because they’ve never been looked at that carefully by someone who doesn’t want anything from them. -
Dancer:
#dance #dancephotography #dancephotographer #500px #yellowkorner
Third track, near the bridge, a small catch and then the song finding its feet again. She liked hearing where it slipped.
Sunday mornings it was on before coffee, before the first text, before the day came asking for anything. She’d move through the apartment in those worn out socks, one hand catching the wall or the counter or the back of a chair, working through whatever had tightened up overnight. Half stretch, half marking through steps, half dealing with her own head. Three halves. She would’ve appreciated that.
I sat at the table with a mug going cold and let the morning be hers. Fine by me. She was busy getting herself lined up.
The skip came around and her foot caught it every time. Small hitch. Small correction. Then on she went. After a while it stopped sounding broken. It sounded built in.
The socks were awful. Elastic gone. Hole opening near the toe. She knew. Still wore them. Same record. Same chipped mug for the spoon. Same way of deciding what mattered and letting the rest stay a little rough.
Window light on the floor. Coffee losing heat. Her figuring herself out before the phone started, before the drive, before the ballroom, before a hundred people needed something and she’d be the one they looked for.
By noon she’d be carrying half the room and keeping it off her face.
What I remember is the part that was still hers.
The skip. The count in her head.
The way she could belong to herself before noon started calling her name from three directions. -
#dance #dancephotography #dancephotographer #500px #yellowkorner
I used to end up in the same apartment because nobody had enough money or enough sense to call it a night.
Third floor. Bad blinds. A lamp in the corner that made everybody look a little softer than they were. Somebody’s shoes by the couch. Rings from wet glasses on the table. A phone charger that only worked if you bent it the right way. You could hear the first bus before anybody admitted it was morning.
That place held a whole season of my life.
People came through with takeout, cheap wine, stories they hadn’t told anybody else yet. Someone was always half asleep. Someone was always laughing in the kitchen. Somebody always said see you tomorrow like tomorrow was guaranteed and nearby.
I think that’s what’s hard for me now.
How available everything felt.
How unfinished life was.
How easy it was to believe the people in front of you would stay the people in front of you.
Then years got hold of it.
Leases ended. I got sick. People moved. Some names turned into old contacts. Some turned into stories. Some never even got that far.
The apartment is going to be somebody else’s now…
The lamp is gone.
The charger got thrown out.
That whole little world got cleared off piece by piece and kept moving.
Still, there are mornings when some part of me is back there.
My shoes by the door.
My jacket over the chair.
Voices in the next room.
That thin orange light coming through the blinds.
goodmorning neverland
I thought I was going home later.
Turns out later was what disappeared. -
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#photographer #500px #yellowkorner #canon #chicagophotographer
It isn’t for anything I did. It’s for who I am sometimes.
I feel things at a volume most people don’t. I always have. I don’t know how to be casual about the people who matter to me and so what comes out of me sometimes is more than the moment was asking for. A regular conversation turns into me meaning it too much. A small question turns into a long answer. I watch myself do it. I can’t always stop.
I know it’s a lot. I know there are versions of me that arrive heavier than people signed up for that day. I know the intensity is mine to carry and not theirs to absorb, and I try, I really do try, to keep it on my side of the table. But sometimes it leaks. Sometimes I say a thing with more weight than the thing could hold, and I can see it get taken in, careful, the way you’d hold something somebody handed you without warning, and I think…you shouldn’t have to hold that. You didn’t ask for that.
That’s the apology. Not for caring. I won’t apologize for caring. For the size of it sometimes. For the way it shows up before I’ve had a chance to soften the edges. For being more than the moment when all that was needed was the moment.
She has only ever been gentle with me about it. That’s the part that stays with me. Not that she meets it … that she meets it gently, every time, and asks for nothing in return, and lets me be exactly as much as I am, even on the days I wish I were less. -
Dancer:
#photographer #dance #dancephotographer #500px #yellowkorner
how a shadow knows the shape of you
better than most people do.
It’s quiet, loyal,
a little too honest sometimes.
It’s something you have to learn,
To learn to live with the imprint,
the outline,
the part that sticks around
when everything else leaves early.
I keep trying to be okay with that.
Me and the shadow,
learning the same song
at different volumes. -
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Tyler McAuley's engagement rate on Instagram is 12.49%, over 6%, more than 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 8 followers. Likes outnumber comments by roughly 79 to 1, with 5,653 likes and 72 comments on an average post, so most reactions are taps rather than replies.
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Who is Tyler McAuley?
Tyler McAuley (@jm_photography23) is a Photographer creator on Instagram, also filed under Photography & Video. Tyler McAuley carries Instagram's verified badge and uses an Instagram professional account. The Instagram bio for Tyler McAuley runs to 15 words across 4 lines.
How many followers does Tyler McAuley have?
Tyler McAuley has 38,441 followers on Instagram (38.4K). Tyler McAuley follows 4,271 accounts, so the audience is roughly 9 times the size of the list followed. With 3,561 posts published, Tyler McAuley's archive runs well past the 2,000 mark.
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Tyler McAuley's engagement rate on Instagram is 12.49%, over 6%, more than 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 8 followers. Likes outnumber comments by roughly 79 to 1, with 5,653 likes and 72 comments on an average post, so most reactions are taps rather than replies.
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