Tall angular building
Canon PowerShot S95
2016
I’ve made a lot of photographs this year, but few that please me, or that I think are good.
I’ve been doing a lot of camera therapy this year. It has felt good to make photographs, or it did until recently. The disappointment I’ve experienced with my compositions is now greater than the pleasure I feel when I press the shutter button.
I’ve been making photographs while I’ve been doing other things, mostly taking bike rides or walks to help me lose these 15 stubborn pandemic pounds. I’m not out primarily to make photographs; I’m sneaking photography in along the way.
I’m also bored of my subjects. I’ve shot them all a hundred times now.
It’s possible to make great photographs while doing other things. I made this one in Manhattan while there with Margaret in 2016. We made photographs as we walked to wherever we were going. But Manhattan was largely new to me, and exciting.
I think I need to make some photo walks for their own sake, at places that are new and exciting to me.
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