I don’t even know where to begin trying to come up with a good answer for that.
Here. But lazy. Or adrift. And clearly not paying attention.
I haven’t been doing much shooting since the beginning of COVID really. And I don’t know why. It’s a question I keep asking myself. Creating images is the thing that brings me great joy in life and I haven’t been doing it and I don’t have a good reason for that. But that’s where I find myself digging out from.
And I suppose that sort of answers the question as to why I haven’t been here. I’ve created very little new work and haven’t had much to show you or share.
The brain of a photographer is a funny thing. Even though I haven’t been shooting much with any of my cameras, my mind is always looking for the shot, framing subjects, thinking about how to capture scenes in front of me in my own personal way. It never turns off- I’m always always always looking for the photo. The only difference between now and back when I was shooting a lot is literally just the single press of a button. So it’s especially ridiculous that I haven’t been shooting.
After years of thinking about it and testing it multiple times, I recently bought the Ricoh GR IIIx camera. It’s a street shooter, though it’s never been my intention to use it that way. There is something about the images I can create with this camera that brings me back to my love of photography.
I’ve said this before but my goal is never to represent something the way it actually looks. That isn’t something I care about. It’s why I’ll never be a portrait photographer or a landscape photographer. I only want to capture a mood, a feeling and the way I want things to look, even when they don’t actually look that way. This little camera is helping me do just that and it feels magical.
So I think I’m back.