Why am I having issues working with podman, kind and related deployments?

I’m trying to run through the course “Kubernetes: Your First Project (2021)” on LinkedIn Learning, and run into a problem that I’ve not seen addressed directly. Here’s what I’ve done:

1. Created the docker image.

2. Created a kind cluster from PowerShell.

3. Loaded the docker image via podman (apparently, this cannot be done reliably via the CLI, so please let me know whether I’m wrong about that).

4. Created a deployment via PowerShell:

   kubectl create deployment explore-california --image=localhost/explorecalifornia-new.com --port 80
   

5. Edit the deployment so that it will never pull the image from a repository.

kubectl get pods returns that I’m in ErrImageNeverPull.

The image name matches, and it is in kind:

docker exec -it kind-control-plane crictl images
IMAGE                                           TAG                                     IMAGE ID            SIZE
docker.io/kindest/kindnetd                      v20251212-v0.29.0-alpha-105-g20ccfc88   4921d7a6dffa9       42.7MB
docker.io/kindest/local-path-helper             v20251211-v0.29.0-alpha-100-g82a92c5d   2e560e8db0b10       3.08MB
docker.io/kindest/local-path-provisioner        v20251212-v0.29.0-alpha-105-g20ccfc88   65232e320e58b       24.7MB
localhost/explorecalifornia-new.com             latest                                  1596891acdf0f       80.3MB
(etc.)

Where to go next with this?