Archives for 2009

My year in pictures

The end of the year seems like as good a time as any to reflect on recent accomplishments. I was cleaning up my Lightroom archive this week and got sucked into the “January ’09″ folder. Was that really just a year ago? It seems like forever. Most of the photos are pretty bad. Some of them are kind of good! I ended up going through the whole year this way, revisiting the many photographic twists and turns I’ve made in the last 12 months. While I came across a lot of not-so-good images and photographic dead ends, there are also a good number of promising images and interesting ideas.

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care

Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year! See you in 2010.

Photographer: Allie Mount

I love these desert images from photographer Allie Mount. I discovered Allie on Flickr a couple of weeks ago and was instantly smitten. continue reading

Landscape, Uninterrupted

Rockaway Beach, 2009

Ah, well. I did not get into the Landscape Interrupted exhibition. Congratulations to everyone who did make it in, I hope it’s a wonderful show.

Every time I get a rejection letter I ask myself “Why do I put myself through this?” I am much more interested in creating new work right now than I am in showing it. In fact, I’m not sure that I’m ever going to be excited about showing my work. Exhibition takes time, money, and energy, which are all in short supply. I’d rather be out shooting.

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Meet the Mastodon, an off-road wheelie backpack

This goes on the list of weirder things I’ve done, but here it is anyway: an off-road wheelie backpack. Anyone who’s ever tried to lug a large format camera around for any amount of time knows about exhaustion and back pain. Over the years, I’ve been through a string of ever more complicated and expensive camera backpacks, trying to find one that wasn’t terrible. They all are. Earlier this year, I switched to an inexpensive frame backpack, which is more comfortable than any camera backpack I’ve ever tried.

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