Throwback Thursday

Many photographers like to present their work as projects or distinct bodies of work. Images curated around an idea or theme to create a unified whole. I also tend think about my work this way. Otherwise, all we have are just a bunch of pretty pictures. Not that there’s anything wrong with that…

Throwback Thursday

Continuing the sorting of images from the past couple of years has been largely an exercise in futility. I’m just not able to categorize so many of them very easily. I’m having an extremely hard time making decisions on what to save and how to sort.

That being said, there are themes that are starting to emerge which may turn into projects at some point down the road. It’s funny what your subconscious can be doing while you’re doing something else…

Here is a small sample from this weeks finds:

Throwback Thursday

Still working though the morass of negatives and files… Where do they all come from?

Oh, wait. I know. Silly me…

Throwback Thursday

As folks are often wont to do this time of year, I am sorting through mountains of old image files to catalogue and save for future reference. Every time I add a new storage device it seems like this becomes a necessity. The older one gets the more wisdom you’d think would be gained. In my case, apparently not.

Perhaps because digital imaging allows us to create so many more images, or maybe because of the unending possibilities and ways to use our pictures I have such a difficult time keeping things organized, I’ll probably never figure out. But here is a selection of pictures recently rediscovered that I really like.

Throwback Thursday

Using pictures of water is something I do quite often as a way of expressing ideas that are otherwise difficult to put into words. I’m working on a series now exploring that very idea, that I hope will develop (pun intended!) into something.

This image is from an early trip to Wrightsville Beach shortly after I moved to North Carolina almost 20 years ago. It is the old pier at the Oceanic. I have another panorama. from about the same time that was an early attempt at stitching panos. A careful search of the site will reveal it.

Progress on this recent work can be found soon on my IG or tunblr account. Stay tuned…

Wednesday Wisdom

“What makes life worth living? No child asks itself that question. To children, life is self-evident. Life goes without saying: whether it is good or bad makes no difference. This is because children don’t see the world, don’t observe the world, don’t contemplate the world, but are so deeply immersed in the world that they don’t distinguish between it and their own selves.”

— Karl Ove Knausgård