It’s been a while. . . but there is one person out there that is checking in several times a day, it appears, so I reward thee with some of my awesomeness. Actually I haven’t been feeling very awesome lately about my photography. I’ve been considering a protracted break like I used to take during summers when I was playing my trombone as much as I should have. Usually after taking such a break, there was a marked improvement when I picked it back up, albeit a dip in the strength of my chops. When I’m shooting, it feels like there is this tremendous weight and pressure, almost certainly self-generated, but present nonetheless. I also feel like my eye has gone suddenly blind. Where components such as composition and framing used to come to me quite naturally, it seems like some Tower of Babel has gone off in my head and laid waste utterly to all of these items that used to have a good time hanging out together in my brain. Frame after frame after frame, and I don’t feel like each successive frame is getting better than the previous.
Frustrating.
I do have a number of images stockpiled that could help to tide us all over, and I could even post some of the things that bounce around in the recesses of my brain that I don’t usually let out… who knows. In the meantime, here are a couple of images from the second of the Twilight Festivals of June this year. I don’t know if I am not enjoying them quite as much as previously or whether they’re a little slower than, say, last August, but it is what it is. I took a tonne of images (that would be a metric ton for those of you playing at home…) and picked out a couple of the “best and brightest” as it were, although I find severe issues with both of the images to follow. We are our own worst critic, yes? Without further ado, here are some images:
On an unrelated note, did you hear in the news lately that it has been contended in the UK that the term “Brain Storming” should no longer be used on account of it could be insulting to epileptics? They are suggesting alternatives such as “thought showers” and other half-assed attempts at saying exactly the same thing… check it out here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2162568/Council-bans-brainstorming.html
Obliquely, this is why I have added tag clouds to my layout and called them “Thought shower”. There you have it. If you’re not watching any of the Euro 2008 soccer championships, do yourself a favor and catch at least one match over the next week. It’s worth it.
June 23, 2008 at 2:03 am
I am not your stalker but I thought I’d comment anyway. I am guilty however of leaving my Google reader open for days at a time and never actually reading any of the feeds. Lazy, busy, whatever. Want some commentary on the images? I’ll give some anyway because I have insomnia and I feel like forcing my noise on you. The first one is interesting, oddly enough the first thing that I noticed was the corner of the walls. Then I pondered, “where is the missing case?” Oh, perplexity. The second one: This one makes me wonder what you were actually trying to capture. The stoplight, or the Tiger sign? Or both? Or something else entirely? The lights conflict with each other. Pulls my eye in two directions and therefore gives me a headache. And one last note, “thought shower” is about the dumbest damn thing I ever heard. Not quite, but close. Most things said by the media are stupid. This is why I have stopped paying attention to it. I am blissfully unaware. It’s nice.
June 24, 2008 at 10:17 pm
I really like the Tiger one…all the random lights in different depths catch my eye and interest, especially the moon so far in the distance. The guitars make me feel lonely.