Reader carries

Show us what is in your pocket

One photo, the list of what is in it, your name on it. Every carry that fits the rules goes up as its own page on this site, credited to you. A person looks at each one first; nothing is published by a machine.

Photos required

One to three, JPG, PNG or WebP, up to 8 MB each. One clean shot on a plain surface beats three busy ones. Your phone’s location and camera data are stripped before anything is published.

What is in the photo required

Brand and model where you know them. Two lines minimum.

Why these? optional

Title optional

Kind of carry

Name or handle required

Where optional

Email required

So I can tell you when it is up, or ask before cropping. Never published, never shared.

This is my own photo of my own gear. Owned & Tested may publish it on this site with the name above, cropped or resized if needed, and I can ask for it to be taken down at any time. Also email me when a new guide or measured test lands. One email each time, nothing else.

The rules, short

List what is in the photo. One item per line, brand and model if you know it. The list is the useful part: it is how the next person finds the pen you like.
Your own photo of your own gear. No stock shots, no product photos lifted from a maker’s site, no pictures of somebody else’s carry.
No selling. No links, no handles, no watermarks, no shop names in the text. If you make things, they can be in the shot next to the rest of your carry; the post is about the carry, not the shop.
Keep it to everyday carry. Knives, lights, pens, tools, wallets, watches, keys, notebooks, small electronics. No firearms or ammunition on this site.
Nothing that identifies anyone. No faces, plates, addresses, badges or documents in frame. Yours or anyone else’s.
Civil, always. Nobody here asks why you carry a knife, or why you do not. The item list is the whole conversation.

What happens next

I look at every submission myself. Nothing is published automatically, and nothing is sold or shared. The photo and your details sit in a private queue; if a carry is not published, they are deleted.
A published carry gets its own page under /edc/: your photo, your list, your words, your name. Items that this site has reviewed link to the review; nothing in a reader carry is an affiliate link.
Want it down later? Email through the contact page and it goes.

See the carries so far

The rules, short

What happens next

New test results, by email