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This journal discusses photography in all its guises with an emphasis on the art of making photographs.
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Reading through this, it neatly summed up my own feelings when considering work I’ve produced recently. ‘Recently’ here relates to my 2009 Lightroom catalogue, which is considerably smaller than previous years…
The other day, I started to write a response to a recent TOP article, (The Tenset), about why I maintain three different websites and whether I could present my ‘Top Ten’ images on a single front page of any of those sites. The article never got finished, because every time I looked at my photographs from recent years I was swamped by the same feelings of doubt that you describe.
However, just one successful picture per year is an acceptable hit rate in my view, and ‘Minuet in Green’ would seem to a very worthwhile candidate for 2009.
These feelings are certainly not confined to those of Slavic extraction; more likely related to the fact that I too got very close to the end of my sixth decade a couple of months ago.
Cheer up, Thomas, you are good.
You just published a new site with your dailies (I can’t get enough of them); this site is full of insight and good humor: what else do you need? You do this to please and express yourself. The Green Park, London image could be a frame from Blow Up (I love it), and you get depressed? Those folks in the image look depressed, but I think that comes with the Territory.
Yes, we all get depressed sometimes for various reasons, but your images don’t reflect that. I enjoy Hopper myself and I can tell which of your images resonates with him before reading the subtitle.
I’m a photographer myself, with a structural engineering background; in 2008 I won an award at a local art show (I live in SoCal), and had a solo exhibit in Eastern Europe this September, had shown 100 images. My website is close to go live but not there yet. I do mostly landscape, travel and people photography.
You have a lot to show for your efforts, keep up the good work:)
Best regards,
Paul