Winter 2007-2008
My recent reply to a friends LJ post about all our snow:
I love the snow. Even the horrible driving tonight and the fact that I almost got
helloheather's car stuck twice in a span of 10 minutes...I still love it.
The worst winters are the ones where all you see is brown grass and brown dirt.
This winter has been the winters of my childhood. I want more.
Photographic Goals – 2008
I've been unable (or rather, unwilling) to go on many photography walks during my lunch hour. (The cold and a slowly-dying camera are my excuses.) However, as both will eventually be "solved" I think I need to come up with some goals for my photography for 2008.
One thing that is noticeably lacking when browsing cetan.org is the absence of images without color. Put more succinctly: I want to shoot more black and white photos. And, in the digital world this means shooting in color and learning how to better convert to black and white. But this means that, just like with film, I need to learn how to "see" in black and white before shooting. I need to train my brain to convert tones before pressing the shutter button.
Second, of course, is to get out walking as much as possible. Even though I've covered almost everywhere I can on foot, these areas are constantly changing. And with additional riding on the El, I could certainly expand further.
I would also like to start doing more photography on the weekends. I seem to abandon any ideas of photo projects on the weekends and that's been bothering me for some time. I want to better explore my little area of the country.
The 800 lb gorilla in the corner, though, is lighting. I don't really understand it and I certainly need to learn more. But really, the idea is so very daunting. I follow, somewhat sporadically, the resource that is Strobist, but only until I feel very very overwhelmed. This happens rather quickly. The only thing I've figured out so far is that 1) I probably need an off-camera cord and 2) I probably need the Canon 580 EX flash. Everything else is just too much.
So that's it for 2008. We'll see how well I do in 10 months 