Photography thoughts

I just spent a while looking at some of my pictures.

I do that sometimes.

I probably won't ever do anything big with photography. I certainly don't expect to become famous. Whatever. I love looking at my own pictures. It's very interesting sometimes looking at some of the first ones I took. I wish I had them all sometimes but that would mean keeping a whole bunch of really bad ones. I still have and still keep some of the bad ones. I like the bad ones. Some of them are really cool. And the experimental ones. I met a guy once in KC who said that he had kept all of the pictures he had taken. Well, he had more money to invest in storage than I do. I think he took them in raw format too which means they were very big files. Even so... I enjoy the ones I have. Some of my early ones were, I think, very good. But that was accidental. I'm definitely better at getting what I want on purpose.

I'm looking forward to a new, more powerful camera. That will come when it comes. The camera I have now does most of what I want but sometimes not. I need more zoom. And more pixels would be nice. And more storage capacity. And the right kind of flash.

What I've said to Larry more than once is that I don't mind investing in something I'm doing but I'm not really willing to spend lots of money on a maybe. I think I know where I'm going now so we'll see what the market is offering when I'm ready to spend money.

Well, I may never do anything BIG with my photography but there are things that I do hope to do. I would like to do some portraiture. At first I didn't think I would like that at all but after doing some I realized that I did like it after all. Thanks to my KC Family for letting me start with them. I made some good - if not polished - portraits of them. I may not be a very urban or "edgy" sort of person myself but I like to take pictures and turn them into something artsy.

Stuff like these of my daughter.

These two are impromptu - on the spot shots. We just saw an opportunity for some fun and liked some of the results.




These are some first efforts with interesting effects.

One day of course I've got to figure out how to put my stuff on the web so people can decide if what I do is what they want or not.

I certainly live in a great spot for some on location stuff. You know, Dallas, Deep Ellum.

I will always love shooting flowers and would love to sell flower pics - I think I have stuff worth putting out there but OH MY GOODNESS - anything that is remotely marketing is daunting to me. I really need to grow a new axon for that. I will. I'm sure I will. I keep thinking the process through and you know me - that's what I have to do. I have to resolve all the issues I can think of in my mind before I can act. Very paralyzing sometimes. Round and round in my head. Think I'm ready and Oh, look - there's a problem to resolve.

So, I've made my start. Just thinking it through. I'm getting there. Really.

I promise I'm not a coward. That's not the issue.

No..... I believe very much in God's timing for things. His timing is perfect and I'd rather trust that than my own abilities. And there are some things he's put on my heart to do first.

So I'll start there. I'll yield myself to him and to the expression he wants to bring and then we'll see what we see down the road.

Then we'll see what we see.