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Saturday, July 09, 2011

The recent drive to the High Desert...

This is exactly what we where looking for, a place completely different than Houston.
The weather was pleasant and we had a very nice trip.
On the other hand, the more I go to Santa Fe the less I'm convinced that I'd have an interest in living there. In many respects it's a very small town and I'm a "city boy" at heart.
Don't get me wrong, I love going there and the country side is magnificent, I'm sure there is a lot of photography to done there. I'm really most at home in Houston.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

More "On the Road"...

These pictures aren't in any particular order, it's just the way they happened to be in the jpeg file.
By the way, Highway 285 is a great drive across the high desert.

It occurs to me...

I've been thinking about the business of making photographs and I'm going to use this forum as a place to share some of those thoughts.
I'll also post new pictures as they get to the "finished" state and provide information on how you can go about having your very own copy. Taking a cue from Duane Keiser, http://www.duanekeiser.com/ , I think marketing my own work is the best way for me to go, at least for the time being

As I think about becoming a "photographer", I've spent some time with people who have made that choice long ago and are now working very hard at it.The work they have produced is in many cases, excellent. What I have noticed is that the profession has a very low return on the time invested. It's far cry from my previous career where the return on my time was actually very high.
Great credit is due those individuals who choose to become photographers and then actually make a "living" by making pictures.

One night last week I took two "portfolios" to the Houston Center for Photogrphy to have them "reviewed". It was an interesting experience.
I was told that the landscape work had no relationship to the short set-up comments I made and that I should keep working on the blk&wht, "Ode to O'Keffee" portfolio.
It was pointed out to me that "landsape" work is highly competitive. Interesting observation, how did I fail to see that?
It occurs to me that showing my work to strangers is a productive activity, at least for me. Unfortunately, I probably gain more from the experience than those who see the pictures for the first time. Maybe it's a fault of the work, not strong enough or unusual enough? Maybe it's the "reviewers" problem?
In any case, it's all just opinion and not fact. I will continue to seek out the opinion of anyone who is willing to look at the pictures, I will also continue to make pictures that I like.