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I need to actually update my website...
Mar. 17th, 2021 03:00 pmI was originally going to call one gallery Portland 2020, but it's clear that 2020ness is extending far into 2021. Things are different than they were a year go. Every time I see that someone's mask is obviously well-worn and broken into to their face and ears I really want a picture of it as an interesting late-pandemic detail, but I am not going to approach people about shooting the way their ear straps are permanently dingy and ask to take a picture.
Anyway, I need to call the gallery something else, pick 8 pictures and stick a fork in it. I can always update it alter. But, I also need a new name. Portland: The Plague Years? IDK. Titling photo galleries is as hard a titling a fanfic.
I posted some of my skeleton pics to a local FB group and it's sparked a discussion about how the proliferation of skeletons in Portland is likely gallows humor due to the plague, or general plague-related morbidity. And okay yeah now that someone said that, it's obvious but I really didn't connect the sheer volume of creepy yard art with general morbidness. I chalked it up to Portland being Portland, and also fairie doors being passe.
Some of my other working titles of galleries in progress are 'Creepy Portland' and 'Portland Gotta Portland'.
I really want to go reshoot the wendigo, if it's still there, with the portrait lens. But I think tonight I am filling in some areas near Tabor so I can call the whole sector done. The wendigo is pretty far, but I really want to fill in that area on my map as well.
I have so much new material since I did my last update, I need to buckle down and make this happen somehow. I am so picky about what I put there, though, and I really need to nail down titles. Also deciding whether a picture goes in creepy, yard art or Covid Portland is a challenge.
Anyway, I need to call the gallery something else, pick 8 pictures and stick a fork in it. I can always update it alter. But, I also need a new name. Portland: The Plague Years? IDK. Titling photo galleries is as hard a titling a fanfic.
I posted some of my skeleton pics to a local FB group and it's sparked a discussion about how the proliferation of skeletons in Portland is likely gallows humor due to the plague, or general plague-related morbidity. And okay yeah now that someone said that, it's obvious but I really didn't connect the sheer volume of creepy yard art with general morbidness. I chalked it up to Portland being Portland, and also fairie doors being passe.
Some of my other working titles of galleries in progress are 'Creepy Portland' and 'Portland Gotta Portland'.
I really want to go reshoot the wendigo, if it's still there, with the portrait lens. But I think tonight I am filling in some areas near Tabor so I can call the whole sector done. The wendigo is pretty far, but I really want to fill in that area on my map as well.
I have so much new material since I did my last update, I need to buckle down and make this happen somehow. I am so picky about what I put there, though, and I really need to nail down titles. Also deciding whether a picture goes in creepy, yard art or Covid Portland is a challenge.
