Posts Tagged ‘North Carolina’

A couple weeks ago I had a project that required me to get my kayak out on the water at sunrise.  As I paddled along side the model and his dog on our way to the location I watched a fine mist hovering over the lake and marveled at the quiet.  As I listened to the rhythmic sound of the paddles piercing the water it occurred to me that it had been quite a while and I wondered why it took a project to get me to pull the spider web filled kayak out from under my porch and put it in its’ rightful place.

After a very brief moment of feeling guilty for not doing this more often, it occurred to me that I was on a job and getting paid to kayak and create imagery that conveyed the experience of calm and tranquility when gliding across the water and the solitude one can feel when paddling at that time of day.  So when the demands of work, family, and life in general seem to occupy every minute of every day, the fact that my job will put me in a kayak on a crisp fall morning, and a paddle and camera in my hand, makes me realize that I chose the right field……….. at least I felt that way that day and may need to refer back to this post every so often to remind myself of that fact……….

It has been far too long since I had a blog entry.  For the sake of just getting something new posted I will be short on words, which apparently is something that I have a hard time doing according to my wife and the friends honest enough to tell me.  Interestingly enough, I can be a fairly quiet guy, but when it comes to putting words on paper, brief and to the point is not my style.  You would think that being a photographer, I would let the image do the speaking for me…………. for your sake, I will let it in this instance and will try to do so more in the future.

This is a category that will encourage me to produce fresh content on a consistent basis, share recent work and projects, or dig into the archives and find images that may have been overlooked or just forgotten.

It is truly amazing how many images we create as photographers, never to see the light of day.  Only a tiny fraction make the cut to be published, used in the marketplace, or even grace my monitor for more than a second.  If the most recent re-release of the infamous 1972  “Exile on Main Street”  album, by the Rolling Stones, isn’t a testament to the gems that may be buried in the archives, I don’t know what is.  Not that I could ever compare myself or work to that of the Stones, but if songs like “Plundered My Soul”, which has quickly become in my top ten list of all songs, could somehow be passed over and missed by the band and producers, surely, there are a couple images in my archive ready to get a second look.

There will be no rhyme or reason to this category.  It will  simply serve as a place where I can upload an image on a consistent basis that does not need to fit into a category, illustrate a story, or be approved by an art director or editor.  It can stand on its own for what it is.  Here begins a personal test of my commitment to posting work on a consistent basis.