Do we take the bus or ride the bicycle?
Modes of Transportation
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Need to look up…
Hamilton Road in Gahanna When taking my camera for a walk, since I don’t have a Hobbs or a Foster, I need to always remember to look all around me which means I also need to look up. Never know what I might see. 🙂
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Finding Ourselves
St. Agnes Church in Rockville Center “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” Thomas Merton
I’m on a 4-day trip and sitting my hotel room. It’s quiet. I like these times. These are times when I read or journal, check emails or read a few blogs. After finding the above quote it has perked my interest to write.
For me the past year has been focused around art. Most of the books I’ve read all pertain to some form of art: writing, painting, photography, sculpting, etc. I’m not sure how much I considered my photography as art but because of all the reading I’ve done, and looking closely at how I work at photography, my views are changing. Photography is my paint brush for expressing my vision, my creativity and how I see the world around me. I’m learning to listen to the voice within me to create images pleasing to me and even write posts about my photography. As I’m listening to the muse, as Pressfield suggests, I’m finding out new things about myself and seeing the world with a fresher vision. I press the shutter button on my camera for my need to express myself. And, to express myself I need to know more about myself.
Here are some of the books I’ve enjoyed reading lately:
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
- Art and Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland
- Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
- Linchpin by Seth Godin
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… & better than what?
... than what? I found this image in a window in Rockville, New York. It made me laugh as I just passed over the 60 year mark. Hope everyone has a great day. And, hopefully I’m getting better at this love of photography.
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First Light
Foothills Parkway Earl’s been posting images of the Smoky Mountains and stirring up some fond memories of a trip I took back in October of 2003 with fellow photographer Jeff Svoboda. Jeff and I spent a week shooting early mornings and late afternoons. My first experience in the park, loved it and hope it was not my last one. What a great place to experience. As I’ve been cleaning things up on my hard drive I’ve also been finding images I’ve forgotten about. Here’s a morning sunrise from Foothills Parkway: First light.
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Checking Me Out
Checking Things Out I’ve been doing a bit of house cleaning; deleting and organizing images on my hard drive. I purchased another and larger hard drive about a month ago. I’ve moved everything over and have it the way I want it. Again, it is enjoyable to look back over images from the past and see where I’ve been and where I’m at now. I found this fellow from 2003 and felt like posting his portrait. He (she) is sure checking me out and looking cute.
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Lessons Learned
Shadows on the Bridge “Succesful people are succesful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently. Successful people learn from failure, but the lesson they learn is a different one, they don’t learn that they shouldn’t have tried in the first place, and they don’t learn that they are always right and the world is wrong and the don’t learn that they are losers. They learn that the tactics they used didn’t work or that the person they used them on didn’t respond. You become a winner because you’re good at losing. The hard part about losing is that you might permit it to give strength to the resistance, that you might believe that you don’t deserve to win, that you might, in some dark corner of your soul, give up.” from Linchpin by Seth Goodin
- I’ve deleted a few images from my hard drive since I started working with digital photography. Those images were lessons learned.
- Yesterday I approached a mother and her daughter in an attempt to get an image of the young girls face that was smeared with ice cream. I was told no. I thanked her and moved on. A lesson learned.
- A few years ago I’ve arrived early for a morning sunrise photo session only to realize I’d forgot the L-bracket to mount my camera on my tripod. A lesson learned.
- Turn Vibration Reduction off when camera is mounted on a tripod. A lesson learned.
- Because I did not check the background I now have a couple of images with antlers protruding from my fathers head. Lesson learned. Funny looking though. 🙂
Anyone willing to share a lesson learned?