civilized ku # 46 ~ totems

Rainy day at the Old Forge hardware store • click to embiggenMike Johnston's recent post, The Moon and Venus, on his blog, theonlinephotographer, raises the issue of '.... Like it or not, I would say that for most people who use cameras, most of our pictures have purely personal meaning. Take this shot for instance ... chances are you'll have forgotten it completely by this time next week ...'

Well, I'm like 'most people' - my pictures do have personal meaning but I also like to think that they are not so much of the navel-gazing variety as to not speak to the 'universal'. That said, I also think that my strength, photography-wise, is in my body of work. Sure, I have some very nice 'stand-alones' but, for me, projects and series are the thing.

Here's my current dilema. I have returned from last week's trip with over 500 pictures, at least 45-50 of which make a very nice series about the experience of a place called Inlet. Now, if I doled these pictures out, 1 or 2 a day on The Landscapist, it would take a month to convey a real sense of the place - way too long to test anyone's attention span on the fast-and-furious blog-o-sphere.

So stay tuned. There's an Inlet Gallery on the way.