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Starting Over

I have noticed that my last postings are just under two years old. Not going to fill you full of a “catch up” story. Now that covid19 is slowing down, and hopefully for some time, I can get back to what I love to do. Create Images and tell you about them. Here is one of my many posts of what my “going forward” is going to look like. Well, as close as I can get it.

Starting over sounds so much better then I failed. Although, what do you do when you fail? Start over. Failing is not a bad thing despite what we have been conditioned to think. If you don’t fail then you don’t learn. The only time failure is a bad thing is when you hadn’t learned anything from it and you don’t try again. So starting over is the inevitable step forward on to a new direction, a better idea, or an improvement over the last idea that landed you here. 


So what am I going to do now?


First; I am not going to make my journey all about selling prints, books or whatever merchandise seems to grab people’s attention. Yes I will have prints to sell for those who ask but commerce is not the driver of what I am doing with my photography. Instead I want my subjects I create images of to be the main focus of my work. I want the story of the landscape to come out, giving the viewer a new perspective and maybe change some minds along the way. 


I feel that the best way to do this is to document through video that journey. I have tried this before and I am going to try this again. What I am not going to do is to make it about the shutter click, rather about the subject matter itself. An environmental aspect to the story rather than a pretty picture only. And maybe my subjects won’t be pretty but rather the ugly side of environmental destruction that happens. I feel that we as photographers are always in pursuit of the next jaw dropping beautiful landscape to capture, package and sell. And by me saying that, don't get the idea I am casting any dispersions on them. I think it’s great they are able to find those areas of extreme beauty to show us. But I sometimes feel that by not showing the true reality of our environment, we give a false narrative that everything is alright. On the other hand, true reality and the ugliness of it doesn’t sell.  


The second thing I am going to do is incorporate my cycling with photography by using the bike as the main mode of transportation as often as I can. And not only as transport but some subject matters I think can cross over to my photography. I am not entirely sure, as you can see, how I am going to use my cycling in my photography.  But what I won’t do is write about cycling as a sport or have endless of the photos I create with my bike leaning up against something. I guess the best thing I can do is be open to whatever works out for it.


The last thing is to show more. Besides the video maybe do a show of the prints I make. Create a project and have a year or two to complete it up to and including a show. Again I am not looking to make a lot of money or maybe I’ll never make anything off of my work. I enjoy my work and I would like to share it with people who may also like it. 


I have lived over half my life expectancy  and I, like many others, would like to leave a small legacy behind that if only a few  know. It would be nice to think that my work would be up in some museum as a photographer that changed the art, but that is a foolish notion. I would just be happy if a few of my images hung on a handful of people's walls. That’ not too much to ask, right? 


Thanks for reading and coming along on my journey. I hope along the way I can entertain, and pass along a little knowledge. If anything I hope you find yourself wanting to visit the places I have shown you.


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Bikes I'd like to Buy

I am not all about photography, I do have hobbies outside of creating photographs and one happens to be cycling. Someday I hope to combined the two together into one site. For now I’ll post from time to time my cycling for you to enjoy.

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Bike Spread Sheet

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What I`ve Done

Working on Backbone Images and thinking about the goals I set out for this year. I might have to scale back a bit

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The clean out

Well the clean out is going slow but steady. If I wasn’t so embarrassed by the accumulation of junk that littered the space, I would have shown you a before shot. Instead I will give a quick pick of a small pile of fabric for now and when it is mostly cleared out, I’ll post a photo.

While I’ve been cleaning I have run across images I’ve printed and framed from the past. They are in good shape but need a place to hang. I’ve also run across a few wedding photos that used to hang on the wall. It would be nice to do something with them for our 25th Anniversary come December. I’ll have to think on it.

Progress is slow but moving forward. I hope that the next post will have a cleared space for you to see. Until then have a great week.

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Top 5 Images

I know it was a long time coming but here it is finally , my top 5 images of the Backbone State Park trip!

Here it is Finally, the Top 5 Images of Backbone State Park that I created this year. I hope you enjoy them and if you have not seen the video mentioned in the podcast then click back to the blog and check out my video. January is going to be a busy month for the site so keep your eyes open for the update posts on print sales and podcasts to come.

The Top 5 Images
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The Next Fall Project

It is time to move on and create images of a new place. Watch my video and see where my next project will take me.

I thought it would be fun to announce the next project with a video. Its my first one using the D750. Hope you enjoy it.

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A life’s End

Back in September 2014 I created an image of this tree as a part of my 90-day project. Part of this project was to not only create an image but to tell a story about the photograph. This was day two’s image, and this is what I wrote.

“I was drawn to this tree due to the low branch a few feet above the ground and the almost stereotypical hole that needs an owl to fill it. The texture of the tree and the branches gave this tree this character of something from a book. And you know its old because you can almost read a story about its life here, the people who lived there and the events over the years in the bark of the tree and the twists of the branches.”

Well this spring when I was walking my dog, I visited the tree and come to find it in not so good of shape the branches were bare where other trees were sprouting leaves. Still, we had a wet season there maybe some hope. As the season changed it became clear that the tree had died and soon it too would be cut down.

Today was the day that the tree was cut down.

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