Existential Monkey

I think it’s time I picked up a camera again.  It’s been nearly a year since I took any photos, but the creative energy is starting to come back and I think it’s about time. Here’s one of the last I shot…  

I can’t tell you how I heard about it, but sometime in the middle of March I found out about one of the coolest personal projects I’ve heard of in a long time. Stephen Voss is a freelance photographer living in Washington DC who has done work for a number of newspapers, magazines, and organizations.

I’m gaining on the backlog of unedited photos. As one of three faithful readers of my blog, you’ll remember my last post in which I confessed my lack of discipline and my commitment to shooting no more photos until I had waded through the seemingly insurmountable number of images I had yet to process. Well

…for a time anyway. How long depends on how long it takes me to catch up on the backlog of images I need to post-process. So what’s my story? What caused this? I got in a bad habit of shooting a bunch of images and then bringing them into my workflow to select the best

This certainly isn’t the first post of its type, but I figure the more we remind ourselves of this the more it might sink in and the more we’ll make some art. Three weeks ago I had planned to get out and shoot on a Sunday. I didn’t have any major plans and I used

As if the home office wasn’t full enough of cameras and camera gear already, I saw something on eBay I’d never seen before, and the mental gears started turning. I like to get up close with my subjects sometimes and I love shooting at or near macro. You can get close with a Polaroid SX-70: