Can't Be Accused of Compulsive Blogging....

I simply done do it enough...

Here goes:

A belated and endlessly edited entry

I realized that there is one thing that irritates me about my Canon - the lens shades are somewhat hard to get on and off... however a friend with another brand of camera has lens shades that fall off and tend to start rolling away when he's standing at the curb and the light has just changed.

One other small thing - the image stabilizer tends to give me the fantods as the image swims around the viewfinder for a moment.

After having shot for stock for a looong time, I still find myself fighting the urge to shoot for stock - loosely defined as a photography that Illustrates a Point and Tells a Story. Carrying a camera all the time (well, mostly) and shooting stuff that catches my eye without regard to it's ultimate use is freeing as all hell. And since film is not an issue (my rough calculations show that since May, I would have had to spend approximately $10,000.00 on film, processing and scanning to equal the amount I've shot digitally, and the faint, but ever present, nagging thoughts about the cost of said film, are gone. This frees one to make great pictures, regardless of whether or not I think I can sell them....

However, selling them is nice.

Anyhoo. Someone once said that they loved writing, but hated the paperwork. I love writing (blogging) but I despise typing. Having taken typing in school in the dark ages of manual machines my left hand sort of knows it's way around that part of the keyboard. I fumble and stagger around and rely on spell check, and am just too damn lazy to sit around and practice typing.