Unintentional Camera Movement

Conventional wisdom tends to favor order over chaos, planning over rambling. We are often instructed to 'photograph with intent' to get 'meaningful photographs'. I wouldn't argue with that, about shooting with intent, I mean. It's just that sometimes you need to be sleepwalking to get the ego out of the way and allow your intent to manifest itself. The other evening we were streaming and yours truly was on the edge of sleep. The ole camera fell to the floor and I guess the shutter was actuated as it left my hands. Now, I just need to learn how to do this while putting one foot in front of the other during the day...

Making Connections

We love wandering the grounds at Glenstone, so it was interesting, almost uncanny, to observe recently how closely one of our local parks resembles it. Never made that particular connection before. Do your shutter therapy sessions help you make these kinds of connections? One hopes. Shutter or no, spending time in nature is surely one of the best ways to nurture one's mental health.

I hope you have plenty of good light and time to spend wandering your local patch this weekend, fellow traveler. 

State of flow

Sometimes, it seems like your creativity just flows, and you create a series of great images with ease. At other times, it is a struggle to get the camera to focus where you want it to, and you count yourself lucky when a few pixels are sharp. Yesterday, flow never showed up. It was a day of struggle. I spent most of the time just spinning my wheels and generating images that thankfully will never see the light of day. This morning, I was cleaning up an old hard drive when I came across the image above. I still remember the day I took the photograph -- things were really moving in a good direction. My wife and I set a bunch of old tool chests out on the driveway and just started shooting abstract compositions. It was fun and we each came away with a pile of nice images. I looked at the EXIF data to discover that I had shot this with an Olympus micro-four-thirds camera. It was a camera that I always thought was too small for my ham fists. But it sure helped me achieve my vision on that afternoon.