Heading Towards the Beach, Former East Germany
This will HAve to wait a few minutes because Im running to meet Evee as we speak. She's not so long on patience sometimes. Well, I can't say that, she is kind of patient. Just not really patient. Maybe i'm just slow, or really patient. I made a lot of models when I was a kid. The minature pieces combined with the glue really chill you out. Anyway, Ms. Evee tends to move really fast. Currently she threatening me with bodily harm because i haven't uploaded all of my pictures from East Germany for everyone to see. I'm actually quite underway though. I guess theres just different philosophies on that. Theres certainly the put up 533 photos the night after philosophy. That certainly has its bonuses in that there people may scroll through to find themselves, and they'll definitely get in touch with you when they need some images fast. However, i seem to find myself falling over into some snobbish or eletist camp. For some reason, I think that my images are worth waiting for. Hense the photoblog. Sorry you are all having such anxious nights waiting for me to release the next update. But it seems that the anticipation challenges both some. It challenges me to find something that's compelling, and you to find what I saw in the image. Maybe its not interesting to you at all. But as I am considering myself an artist, and occasionally a photographer, I have to learn how to edit. I think that editing is one of the real keys to photography. Just as much as to video and to literature. (sorry no one edits this bunk you're reading now) If I see something beautiful I may try to capture it three different ways... five different ways if i am using digital. Now If I show you five pictures of a boy siitting on his fathers lap, you know way too much. You know that his mother was right neear by, you know that we were in the back of a van, you know that we were headed to the beach... If I show you one picture of a boy on his fathers lap, you say, hmm, who is this child, who is he with, what is he thinking, what's going on, you begin to look for the story contained in this slice of life. After I edit for content I also edit a lot for style. I think I have a photographic style. Its still a bit hidden in the steps I use to bring my images forward. So the more images that I try to really develop the more you'll have a scence of my aesthetic. Anyway, when the pictures come out of my digital camera they look really beautiful. But they look beautiful the way the camera sees them, and there is a strong difference between the way that I see the world and the way that my camera does. Photoshop is the bridge between these two worlds. As Thiele once said, "When I get 533 pictures I probably don't even look at one of them." Anyway, I hope to finish editing that set of pictures soon.