Every time I listen to the Stones, my favorite band of all time, I just get the jitters and I get all happy because I remember my UMASS days like they were yesterday (if you ever read this, thanks Pincho, this legacy is all you). Here’s a video and image which absolutely rock and its all Annie of course. Have a great weekend folks. I don’t know exactly when I’ll publish my Week 41 post but it shouldn’t go past Sunday.
Once again life brings forth yet another example of why need to celebrate life at every moment in our path through this earth. A very close relative of mine was just diagnosed with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia. I told him I love him dearly and I’m waiting for him and his family to arrive from Miami so they can begin treatment here. Photographically speaking I needed to make a picture desperately. I just needed to and this little flower on my yard was the best symbol of hope and light that I came upon. Seek your images, your images everywhere folks.
Only 12 more weeks in the weekly project I can hardly believe I’ve last this long. I think it would be beneficial to start to collect my thoughts as to what I’ve learned in this soon to be 52 week. For starters, I can assure you that cameras don’t really matter all that much. I think I’ve proved that to myself. Keen readers of the blog will know I’ve been around the block as they say with my chosen camera gear but in the end, we create what we create. More importantly I think its our thought process as we see a frame and bring that frame to completion via processing. Processing for me is so intimately tied to vision because it hones in on what you saw and what you want your viewer to see – guide the eyes. I tell you though, its no easy task. It takes time and practice. Personally, I think I’ve done it a few times this year with a few frames. Matter of fact, I’ll probably do a …
Readers of this blog will know that I recently got engaged with Isabel a few weeks ago. So as a photographer (enthusiast) I’m always thinking of possible venues to have some great sshots. I took my camera and my lenses and I had a quick photo session and I discovered a few things that I will later elucidate on a longer post but suffice it to say that practice makes perfect, actually like one my professors use to say “perfect practice makes perfect.”
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