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on October 06, 2024

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Why Photography?

“There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment.”--Henri Cartier Bresson. It's Guinness. Life is a compendium of successive slices of time. Photography let's you capture them and freeze them for eternity, or at least as long as your negatives last. I've always been fascinated by the ability to do this through a complex mixture of chemicals and mechanical boxes that focus the light, the light, and let you freeze it like a fly in amber. I've always been fascinated by the decisive moment. I shoot with a variety of cameras, the magic box, and I like to shoot Kodak Tri-X, that staple of photojournalists, of which I once were. But film, digital, 35mm, full-frame, Nikon, Sony, Olympus, iPhone 11 Pro. None of that matters. It is the decisive moment that matters. Look at the movement. The emotions. The lines. Individuals, captured, in a slice of life. A moment that meant so very much to each of them, together. Never to be replicated or exp

Just Some Recent Work with the iPhone 11

I recently went on vacation. As usual, I brought all of my photo gear. And as usual, I shot all of my best, or favorite, photos, with my iPhone 11 Pro. Here's a few. The elusive Jeff. Nobody has taken a photo of him since his high school graduation. And here he actually talks on a phone! My brother in law Steve. He just gets things done. Last sunset of Summer. First Sunrise of Autumn. And this was with my actual camera, a Fujifilm X Pro. Autumn.

Okay, a new blog, what next?

Are blogs still a thing? I've had several blogs over the past decade or more, covering things like Apple products, the county I lived in, poems and prayers and promises, technological haiku, virtual reality, and sailing. Among other subjects. Eventually, I blew them all away. This, of course, deleted several hundred hours of thought and writing. Why did I delete them all? It started to seem pointless, despite a couple of my blogs having followers who commented and sort of built a "community." The blogs seemed to me to lose any sort of relevance. Lighting a single candle, and all that. So I chose to curse the darkness. But recently I've come across a couple of blogs ("are blogs even still a thing, or is everyone just on Facebook, or, even worse, twitter?") that seem to keep the flame alive. Good daily reads. Relevant observations and information. Dare I say it, Journalism in its essential form. So I'm back. Here's a cute cat photo.

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