Weekly Offerings

South Platte River,  2018-week 01

      Most photographers are generally lazy.  By this, what I mean is we don't practice our Art/Craft everyday, or even every other day like musicians.  Doing scales?  nothing sounds more boring than doing musical scales...    Except maybe an hour on the bicycle trainer, going nowhere.  Then, when we do go out and do our photography after a couple of weeks of Not Doing, we still expect to create a masterpiece!  Most of the time it doesn't work out the way we expected...

     I have found (mostly the hard way) that your mind needs to be totally into your Art.  There are so many technical aspects to large format photography, that without the constant practice, you will make mistakes and I do make mistakes.  And then you still have all the artistic considerations that go into creating the image.

     Photography is a verb, that means a lot of doing...   over and over, and over again.  Until the technical aspects become second nature.  Then and only then will you be free to concentrate on the artistic concerns of creating an image.  So each of my weeks this next year will have its challenges, and its failures.  And I will learn from each and everyone of them!


     These two images from last Saturday are a good start, despite their short comings... They are still Doing!

 

South Platte River, Rocks, ice and water,  2018-week 01