Worked a bunch on these this morning. Again, there's stuff I love and stuff I hate. I think it's a mental attitude or zone that makes the difference.
OCOL Week 8 Images are up (in 10 minutes or so...)
It's wild how some days are a complete struggle and others are an embarrassment of riches. I've shot 1-2 hour photowalks and come back with a dozen or more things I like and perhaps a half dozen I really feel good about. Good enough to show someone anyway. Other days, I can't see anything and the pickings are paltry, forget about slim.
The shame and glory about this project is that; you get to see the utter crap that was the best I could do on some days and you have to miss some stuff I loved because only the best survived.
My wife loves John Updike. He wrote novels, poems, magazine articles, review, editorials; there was nothing he didn't do. And he wrote every day. No excuses, no days off. Some of his stuff may have been crap; we may never know. But his legacy is amazing.
Maybe we can all take a lesson there.
Pulled the trigger
I have just done the dirty and bought a wide format printer. This may be one of the bigger mistake of my photographic life.
Or it may be awesome. I'm excited to actually print some of the work you find here.
I've been told that real photographers print their work. It's part of the process. It's part of the work, as much as composing, selecting settings and post-processing. Having done B&W and Color (nightmare!) in a home darkroom, I get it. So here's hoping I can actually handle it.