As the year winds down, I want to thank the photo buffs who have supported me this year, looking at my stuff, sometimes leaving a comment, sometimes hitting the favorite button…I cannot express to you how much I appreciate your attention to my work, and how much I look forward to going out as often as I can, hunting down images, and especially how I’ve enjoyed posting fresh images nearly every day. I am guilty of sometimes posting lesser quality images on Flickr because I don’t think of it as showing only my best work, but my way of interacting with the photo community around the world.
Photography IS my passion. I live all aspects of it. When I’m not out prowling in the sometimes VERY dangerous streets of Detroit, or looking for ghosts in the cemetery, I am usually reading about photography or looking through a collection of photos. I have a decent collection of monographs by some of my favorites and love to get lost in the images, sometimes trying to imagine what it must have been like to be behind the camera at the instant the shutter button was pressed, wondering what sorts of decisions that photographer made to capture the image.
You might notice a lack of people in my photos. I am a bit of a misanthropist and really enjoy my solitude. I genuinely like people and my occupation keeps in working with people every day on a one-to-one basis. Maybe that’s it…not that I don’t like people, but just that I like them one at a time.
I only go shooting alone. Sorry – I don’t give tours, or take people out on a photo safari. By myself, I can open my mind, stop my thoughts and just ‘look’ and find the things I want to photograph, largely a subconscious process. It’s always fun to get home and download my images, only to discover a few images I didn’t recall capturing.
I did not have as much time this past year to devote to my photography as other avenues of my life detoured my desires. We do what we gotta do. But I did upgrade my equipment and am really enjoying ‘better’ equipment, even though I had been a devout point-n-shooterist. The P-N-S is ideal for my style of photography, with super zoom, all-in-one style focal range. Sometimes I just don’t have the option of getting in close to where I go, and the zoom can get me right into the thick of things.
So, again, thanks for your eyes and fingers on your keyboards and I'll see you in Flickr.
