Shutter Buggary

I started taking pictures back in the long ago when you trapped them in a little magic box but didn't get to see them until you took them to a special science laboratory where they 'developed' the film from inside your magic box. Also back then, I took an  elective course that taught how to "shoot" pictures and even how to do the science lab developing stuff.

I have piles, stacks, boxes, and albums filled with 'prints' of those ancient artifacts.  One album is my first Photography instructional volume entitled "How to Suck at Making Pictures." There is a four page layout featuring my favorite sucking technique---making pictures through the window of a car.

Perhaps ironically, The only thing I've done that verges on a professional photography engagement was making pictures that started from using a fancy DSLR to get pictures of airplane instrument panels, and using about twenty software processing packages to wind up representing the panels on functional flight simulators.

I've always had a maybe kind of pathetic Walter Mitty fantasy of being an embedded photojournalist with the military or law enforcement or some other high action engagement where the last thing the people doing it would want would probably be a photojournalist. All this just to get it out of the way---while it would be nice to make a buck or two on it, I don't really hold out much hope of making that happen.

No, I like making interesting looking photographs first and foremost for the simple act of doing it. Nevertheless, I like getting better at it, and there is always plenty of room for that, but never the also less, I wouldn't mind picking up a buck or two for something I'm already doing. 

We recently saw the 2024 film "Civil War" which was mostly about war photography. They did a fair job of (mostly) skating around what could have been a really silly political premise, but it really rekindled my photography Walter.

SO! I got my old busted Sony A7Rii out and sent it to the shop for a tune up. Now, I've started trying to make at least one good picture every day. To "make" one good picture usually requires me to "take" about fifty, narrow that down to three or for, then fiddle around with the exposure and cropping like you'd have to do in the way back photography science cave. 

I considered re-starting this blog with a focus on photography, but decided against it as most of the photos and art in it are my own creations anyway and history shows that time has passed.

Today's One Good Photo.

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