![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Sep. 28th, 2023 12:52 am* Migraine is less bad but, still dealing with it. I tried today to get back to normal activities and I faceplanted for 3 hours. I haven't done that it years. I would have to look at my tracking journal to even know how long I've been dealing with this. This level of time slip and fatigue used to be my life, but it hadn't been in years. I don't like this happening again.
* Post faceplant I took myself on a short, unproductive photo walk just to break up the blerg. If I'd tries to just go to sleep after that I wouldn't have been able to sleep and, yeah, I needed to get out for a bit. I am still trying to get back into my usual photo walking schedule but stuff keeps happening.
* Why does it feel like every fall I want to go hard on photography but stuff happens? The air is clean and wet and I want to be out in it! It's a proper wet Portland fall. But, it's not even October yet so there is still time.
* Part of why I really want to get back in my usual swing is that I watched video essay on Bliss, the most famous photograph ever take. It's was used as the default Windows XP wallpaper and has been seen more times and by more people than any other photo. Nothing compares. The video essay was okay, there is a far more interesting one that could be made. But, anyway, the photo wasn't a planned photo. The guy was just driving and saw the shot and took it. He took 6 versions of it actually. That's the type of shooting I do, it's not planned. I just walk a lot to give me lots of chances to see possible shots. Some of my most evocative shots are from before I even got serious about photography, I just saw the shot and took it.
* Bliss is weird because it was chosen to evoke a feeling of a breath of fresh air, newness, possibilities. In isolation, it can. I never liked Bliss, my reaction to it was a deep dislike of it's vibe. But it's such a weird part of our culture now and feels liminal to people. Even if you never used WinXP or saw the marketing, you may have seen it in various other contexts including images meant to feel nostalgic and/or liminal.
So, the image itself? Dislike. But just the story of how photography comes from this fluid relationship with the world and unplanned shot, just seeing and knowing there is a shot there? Yeah, that's how I approach photography.
* Post faceplant I took myself on a short, unproductive photo walk just to break up the blerg. If I'd tries to just go to sleep after that I wouldn't have been able to sleep and, yeah, I needed to get out for a bit. I am still trying to get back into my usual photo walking schedule but stuff keeps happening.
* Why does it feel like every fall I want to go hard on photography but stuff happens? The air is clean and wet and I want to be out in it! It's a proper wet Portland fall. But, it's not even October yet so there is still time.
* Part of why I really want to get back in my usual swing is that I watched video essay on Bliss, the most famous photograph ever take. It's was used as the default Windows XP wallpaper and has been seen more times and by more people than any other photo. Nothing compares. The video essay was okay, there is a far more interesting one that could be made. But, anyway, the photo wasn't a planned photo. The guy was just driving and saw the shot and took it. He took 6 versions of it actually. That's the type of shooting I do, it's not planned. I just walk a lot to give me lots of chances to see possible shots. Some of my most evocative shots are from before I even got serious about photography, I just saw the shot and took it.
* Bliss is weird because it was chosen to evoke a feeling of a breath of fresh air, newness, possibilities. In isolation, it can. I never liked Bliss, my reaction to it was a deep dislike of it's vibe. But it's such a weird part of our culture now and feels liminal to people. Even if you never used WinXP or saw the marketing, you may have seen it in various other contexts including images meant to feel nostalgic and/or liminal.
So, the image itself? Dislike. But just the story of how photography comes from this fluid relationship with the world and unplanned shot, just seeing and knowing there is a shot there? Yeah, that's how I approach photography.
