Tuesday, February 9, 2010 There is quite a bit of travel coming up over the next several weeks. Over the last few years I've been making images as I travel but have been reluctant to really show anything. It's still somewhat disjointed as far as trying to pull it together, but here is one I like that I found in the reviews. It also reminds of the somewhat bumpy ride down from San Jose tonight.
Somewhere Over Central California, 2007
Monday, February 1, 2010 Over the last couple of days I've been reviewing images from several years ago. It's partly in an attempt to get to the darkroom and make some contact prints. But it's also to look and see what I might have missed when I first viewed the images. I think there is some stuff there I'll like.
This is one of them.
Central Park, 2004It was taken on a trip to New York in 2004. But when I first saw this image I didn't like it much. I do now. Why that is I don't know, but I think it's because it reflects the way I've always enjoyed making images.
My current efforts are struggles; with myself, with the camera, with the subject matter. When I'm just out walking, as I was on this particular day, it seems to come a bit more naturally with me. I see something and I make an image. I've gotten away from that and find myself too worried about technical details I shouldn't be thinking about at all.
You might ask why the world needs another tree image. My answer would be that it probably doesn't. But I do and that's simply enough for me. I make images largely for myself because I have to. That seems to be a common theme with the photographers I've spoken with lately and one I've gotten away from because life so easily gets in the way.
We'll see where this review leads me but I suspect I've found a better way, at least for me, in approaching the work and making images I'm much more happy with.