So I wanted to bury it.
Here's an idea.
Respond with an idea and I will reply with a photograph that represents that idea as well as I can manage.
Go nuts you psychos.
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Portrait and Landscape Compositions Exist
Seriously. How does an art site not know that other than square compositions exist? If a square composition was right, I would have shot it that way. If I wanted to be on Instagram, I'd be on fucking Instagram.
Hasn't been a Journal for a long while.
Not sure I'll last beyond the switch to Eclipse. And not because I can't eventually make my peace with a new format. But it's driving away the people I need to learn from.
Not that it really matters, this is more of an epitaph than anything. Like I say, most of my friends here have moved along already.
A long time ago, this place helped me go from being a kid with a good eye to a legitimately good photographer. My hope is to become great someday, but I don't think that can happen here anymore. The mentors are gone, the dialogue is gone. In its place is a click farm where you're lured to the next page instead of really interacting.
It
Bored Photographer Problems
Woe is me.
The leaves are gone.
Sunsets are all gray.
The galactic center is on the wrong side of the globe at night.
I live too far south for Northern Lights.
Bugs are all dead for the winter.
Flowers are all dead for the winter.
Nobody gets married in February.
I'm too poor to travel to alpine places.
That's an excuse
I'm really too fat and lazy to go climbing alpine places.
Not really "con" season.
And I don't really have a connection here who is into that sort of thing.
And I'm shy.
Deer don't like having things pointed at them this time of year.
That's fair.
Old war buddy is living in my "studio" until he finds work.
No
Photography
This is a photo I took almost ten years ago in Afghanistan. I was a bomb disposal technician in the Air Force largely working outside my training and skill-set. My team had been called to a little firebase in the back-hills of Zabul Province to dispose of some unexploded munitions, but the morning before I took this photo, a patrol was ambushed a couple miles from the base and was taking heavy casualties. There weren't really enough guys on the base to respond, so my EOD team went along to help as we could.
Long story short, it was a pretty wild firefight. They gave us all medals and such.
But that's not really a photography thing, what i
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Sergeant William James, early in The Hurt Locker tosses a smoke grenade that makes it impossible
for members of his squad to prevent potential snipers on a crowded street from attacking him. I've never
understood that choice by Sergeant James, and my interest in the film and its filmmakers expired moments
later, permanently.
Your request for topics is three years old, but IF you'd care to create an image that un-undermines the film
and restores my faith in the Academy of Motion Picture Sciences and Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal all
at the same time with an image even I can't misunderstand, I'd be much obliged.
for members of his squad to prevent potential snipers on a crowded street from attacking him. I've never
understood that choice by Sergeant James, and my interest in the film and its filmmakers expired moments
later, permanently.
Your request for topics is three years old, but IF you'd care to create an image that un-undermines the film
and restores my faith in the Academy of Motion Picture Sciences and Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal all
at the same time with an image even I can't misunderstand, I'd be much obliged.