2025 - looking back at a year (part II)
I started this retrospective look at my photography of 2025 in my last blogpost where I covered the first half of the year, so it made perfect sense to cover the second half in this post (as if I didn’t plan it that way in the first place…). :-) The second half of the year was actually less photography filled than the first half, mostly due to illness in the family that kept interfering. Fortunately that is not as much of an issue now, so hopefully 2026 will end up being MUCH better, both healthwise as well as when it comes to photography!
2025 - looking back at a year
So far photography for me in the year 2026 has been very slow. The low winter sun seems to be gone before I am able to get out there to capture stuff in it, so I am biding my time until the daylight hours last a little bit longer. In the meantime I think I can benefit from going back and think about some of the images I took during 2025. Often I tend to just transfer my photos from the camera to the hard drive, select and edit my keepers and then it is onto whatever is next to photograph, so a bit of a reflection on what is in my saved folders can’t hurt!
Get closer, find more colors!
One of the basic “rules” in photography that I’ve heard over and over in the 25 years or so since I started to explore photography with more than a casual holiday shooter’s interest is to “Get Closer, Get Better Pictures!” While a good zoom lens is a good thing to have, there’s not really any substitute for using your feet to “zoom”.
'tis the season for flowers!
Even though it happens every year it sure feels nice when the colors in nature shifts from brown, black and gray to a more diverse palette , including green and red and purple! Spring is here and the warm weather we’ve had for at least a week has jumpstarted nature into spring. All over flowers and leaves have popped into existence and I am all for it!
The 365 Project Mark VI - Month Nine
I’ve noticed a pattern with these monthly summary blogposts where I start many of them with how much of the year is now over, so I guess I should do the same with this one (consistency and all that ;-)). We've just managed to get through 3 quarters of the year and are now definitely on the home stretch. 2022 can’t come soon enough!
Instagram 365 Project January Wrap-Up
So...it’s now February 2018 and that means I am officially done with the first month of this year’s 365 project and it also means that it is time to look back at the 31 images I uploaded during that month. Just like I did during my 2016 365 Project I’ll pick 5 or 6 images and write a bit about each so there's a little bit more "meat" than just the hashtags I've put on each on my posts to Instagram.
Shooting graffiti...a new project?
A few days ago I listened to an episode of one of my favorite podcasts, The Candid Frame, hosted by Ibarionex Perello where he had the photographer Mick Victor as a guest. They talked about his project of photographing graffiti, tags and other decorations and markings on walls close enough to make them more abstracts, and therefore more "arty". I thought that sounded so utterly removed from the street photography that I often do that I just had to give it a go!