this house is for rent…..i need a place to live ….but, i will not rent this house….not because i wouldn’t like living here in the dunes by the sea on the "outer banks" of Carolina, but precisely because i would very much like living here…the sights and smells are the very ones of my youth on the nearby Virginia coast, just to the north…so i would feel at home….so much so that i fear i might let one day slide into the next and the next and the next….nothing wrong with that at all, but right now i have a lot on my mind….work to do…book ideas burning my poor brain alive…
we had a thread going not so long ago about talking about photo essays before they were done or even started…it seemed that most of us thought that it is better to at least get started on a project before letting the "volcano blow" at the end of the bar…such is the case with me now…i am jazzed about something, tempted to talk, but i will wait….probably because it will be one month before i can even start photographing ….a whole lot of wine could "git spilt" on the ground in that time…
so, instead of writing about projects themselves , i will ramble a bit about the "spaces" and "circumstances" from whence our ideas cometh….for example, both of my sons live in nearby beach towns…..both of them, as filmmakers, work much as i do…"leavin’ on a jetplane" to their "jobs"….there is one big difference: they come home to small town chit chat and i come back to new york hyperglide…
i fantasize their lifestyles….my sons tell me i could never "make it" in these towns by the sea…they both tell me i would be bored quickly…my friends tend to think the same ("city boy" one says)….can this be true??? if it is true, i hate to admit it, because right now with the winter sidelight filtering through the pines and the soft afternoon breeze and the cardinals chirping away, i feel quite at peace and loving every second of it…hmmmm, what would be the breaking point i wonder???
now, as a "homeless" man, i am also a free man….free to choose, once again, where to live….it seems ironic that the sense of "free choice" is a whole lot more exhilarating than the sense of "having no place to go" is potentially depressing!!….but, that is just me…..nomadic by nature…get me out of the rain and anyplace can be home…and when i am "down and out" i think like a wild animal…my senses are sharp….eyes keen…natural high……clear head….ideas flow…survival instinct adrenaline rush maxed out….too comfy and maybe the dreaded one day sliding into another into another another would manifest itself….but, i am not sure sure of this….i just imagine this…
what about you? do your best ideas come under stress and out of necessity or do you need to be in familiar comfortable space and without "worry" to roll out your "idea of the year" ???
David,
My best ideas often come from ‘chewing’ on certain material or a fascination for a long time, put it in the back of my mind while working on other stuff, and paying attention in the moments in between, a kind of revisiting an idea, one time diving in deep, the other moment looking at it more from a shallow point of view.
When it pops up to the surface it’s often simple and ready to take on..
Living in an urban environment I often think about how that speeds up your life, not necessarily being a bad or a good thing. David, do you never think that life could be simpler, with less distraction in a small village?
Joost
Hi David…I’d have to say both. I do love the ideas that seem to come from solitary introspection, yet (and I hate to admit this) I rarely get those ideas going without the worry of an immediate problem, or need. But the solitude and books always seem to be a form of artistic pregnancy, and then the worry and need are the pains of that birth.
Maybe its time you come to the West-coast, you could be the beach bum and city boy all in one town…and the first beers are on me, Senior.
~Dylan
Hi David,
Your post is on point for me. I am living in a wonderful house in the middle of nowhere. I spend a lot of time editing portfolios, making prints, etc., but I am not out making new work on a daily basis. I am not on the go, simply because it is so easy not to be.
Staying home and comfortable is an addiction. If you want to be out and about, you have to break the addiction.
I’m wondering how I would do in NY. I haven’t been there for 30 years, but for street photography, is there a better place?
Could I stand all the visual onslaught? Would having a tiny space keep me out and shooting?
Certainly is good to hear someone else with a voice in these matters.
Remember my show on the 16th. You could come on the way to Mexico.
Otherwise, see you in March, hopefully.
Ciao
Michael
I’m writing away back in “INCOMPLETE” still….David, I hope you will look again at my Alex Webb question…
Yes, (to answer what was asked at the end of SURVEY…) as much as I think one list is the way to go, most do not go back once there is a new subject started. That is something to think about…how to layout the page so that there is one area for all conversations while allowing several topics to be “ON” at once…HOW???
Cool house…
If I knew under which circumstances my best ideas came I would try to recreate those circumstances always!! :) In other words there doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to it. I am more wired and energized when I’m stressed so perhaps more prone to good ideas but as far as executing the ideas, the less stress the better.
As far as “city” vs “country” I am leaning towards country with the upcoming move to Santa Fe. It’s a much smaller town than San Diego but I find I actually DO more there because it’s all so accessable (mostly by walking) whereas in San Diego I will often stay home rather than hassle with the traffic and crowds. Quality of life is where it’s at…whatever that means to you.
“do your best ideas come under stress and out of necessity or do you need to be in familiar comfortable space and without “worry” to roll out your “idea of the year”
My ideas need to come out of a desire to accomplish something that is meaningful to me.
A little self-imposed stress might help, but external stresses definitely detract.
Being in a familiar environment can also help, usually while in the shower, or lying in bed just before falling asleep.
BTW, David- I like the house. I think you should go for it and prove your sons wrong.
House of Sand and Fog
man, I loved that movie, Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly, superb.
Nice photo! reminds me of Todd Hido’s work.
Its so bitchen to have that freedom, I envy you. I think you should drift, my problem is that I get to attached to all the useless junk that accumulates and may have some lingering emotional attachment, I am like my mom and dad, we have stacks of auto magazines from the 70′s, all the toys our familly ever played with, just piles of stuff back home in Scotland, talk about anchors. all that stuff, its just overwhelming.
stay footloose man, that is beautiful.
maybe just to have some kind of base would be nice, but I guess thats how it starts.
anyway, I am constantly stressing over the bills, no investment stocks here, or 401k, or trust funds, constantly scrambling, i dont think that makes for a creative mind set,
“there is one big difference: they come home to small town chit chat and i come back to new york hyperglide…i fantasize their lifestyles….my sons tell me i could never “make it” in these towns by the sea…they both tell me i would be bored quickly…my friends tend to think the same (‘city boy’ one says)”
role reversal? sounds like you’re the son and they’re your father :-) do you exercise regularly david? i mean i can’t imagine you not having some athletic regimen. with that kind of energy you must have a “container” that holds up well. me, i find myself staying home more often, getting too comfy at times, and getting sluggish, physically and mentally. so i guess you’re right not to stay in that gorgeous house. may i? haha
bj
I prefer to let ideas just drift in with the fog. If I’m forcing the ideas out, I can tell, and I suppose if I can tell, everyone else can, too.
I haven’t the foggiest notion about where my ideas come from.
My ideas are not related to being necessarily comfortable or in new environments, they tend to come more from looking at work already done and trying to work out what were my reasons for being inspired in such a direction. The whole thing then tends to work into an idea or a theme that is then put into the back of the mind for future opportunities. Lots of things stay on the back burner, others gnaw away and may eventuate into something worthwhile.
Nice picture, David.
Well, I could write pages and pages on this one. And in fact I have!… in other places and at other times, including most recently on my website at http://www.telcomplus.satkins/photo6.html
There are undoubtedly some people who thrive best in very bustling urban environments, and some who are either overwhelmed or bored by all that manmade noise and only do well surrounded by open space, trees, rocks, water, and wind. But I suspect most of us would be happiest with a mix of the two, so it becomes a question of balance and that balance is not only different for each person but different at different seasons and times in the same life. To be always in motion, living out of a backpack or duffel bag, is an exhilirating freedom in some ways and stimulates the imagination, but there are so many kinds of creativity that can only come to real fruition when one has a settled place full of tools and resources… maybe it is just ‘stuff’ but if you’re a cook, an artist, a craftsman, a multi-instrumentalist musician, or a darkroom photographer, you need to have your tools around you, easily accessible and relatively safe from theft and damage, and a space to work in.
But of course, a house full of ‘stuff’ then can become a prison, a maze of mirrors that is always reminding us of who we were instead of freeing us to discover who we could become… If I stay in my own apartment or house or shack too long, I start going round and round and round.. just taking a long walk somewhere I haven’t been before can often break this spell, temporarily at least.
So finding a personal balance is the key, and the balance point for me at least is always shifting. But the days when I felt at home living in giant, buzzing cities seem to be long over. Do I miss the crowds, the excitement, the spectacle? Of course, and often.
David, you’ll probably only discover how much of a ‘city boy’ you’ve become after you leave the city semi-permanently. Remember the old song, ‘How Can I Miss You If You Don’t Go Away?’
Sidney
Whoops!
Got the address wrong! Here it is:
http://www.telcomplus.net/satkins/photo6.html
Sorry!
Sidney
hi david,
that house looks great – i can well imagine living in a place like that. but then again i can also imagine getting bored, being away from the buzz of the city, the place i have lived my whole life. is the grass really greener in the country side?
as for ideas – i think mine can arrive out of nowhere, some well formed from the outset, others are fragments that need careful cultivation. i think time frames can play an important role here. the above i would say applies best to my personal projects, where i have the luxury of time. if i’m photographing for a commission then things can, at times, be very different. arriving to make a portrait on a days notice with only fifteen minutes to get the job done certainly gets the adrenaline going. sometimes i like to apply a little self imposed stress, give myself a deadline and for myself to stick to it. at other times, being chilled out and letting my mind wander where ever it wants leads me to some very interesting places. so, i suppose both “stress” and “comfort” can apply.
so david, what about living in london?
Jason.
ok David: U rent the house and Marina, Dima and I shall live in it and feed u lots of ideas ;)))))…..
a small thought about ideas: for me, nothing predicts or allows for them, or not, just only this:
to be open to that which sifts and drifts (your fog and your sand) and lifts down upon you, to be open to what may come, taken, run upon or turned aside….
no solutions, only constant changes…to be open, even when we are closed….
running
b
We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move.
We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want.
We hammer wood for a house,
but it is the inner space
that makes it livable.
We work with being,
but non-being is what we use.
-Tao Te Ching, Chapter 11 (Stephen Mitchell, trans.)
I forgot to add:
fuck the poetry: ;)
good single malt and a good walk (cool damp air) seems to often do it too, for me ;))
b
Hi David,
This is off topic but do you have an idea of when the single pics will be visible? I see that it is “coming soon” on the website…
Cheers,
David
I moved to Barcelona as a way to escape that numbness, the slow trickle of day after day… It’s what got me thinking about photography again. Not an easy move, but definitely feeling more ideas and a drive, and yes ‘alive’… more accurately “focus”…more aware of what i’m doing (actually, in photography,.. what i’m doing wrong is more the point). And a new awareness of time, but not just ticking by, but a hundred thoughts at once… got to learn Spanish, need to take at least one good photo (arrghh!)….need to juggle my clients in another country etc….but all ultimately keeping my head active..and that’s what keeps my ideas flowing. still freak out about not having “roots” firmly planted though (spoke to Bob about that), but I kind of do have them… just not in one place.
Kicking back in a hotel room at someone else’s expense with a cold beer is where I like to churn ideas in my head, having just had a long lingering dip in the hotel pool. You know? Well smart.
Bob,
Great that you included Stephen Mitchell here. Good quote.
Do you know him by chance? I’ve never met him but know his wife Byron Katie.
Cathy :))>..
I dont know Stephen, but love his translations, always (love his Rilke especially and his version of the Tao)…i like his poetry as well :))…and his prose simmered too :))…
cheers
running
bob
“We hammer wood for a house,
but it is the inner space
that makes it livable.”
Man, Bob, how do you do that — find the exact right quote for the question? That’s beautiful.
I was in the habit of moving often — either changing job or changing address, year after year. Then I had kids and have been stable (superficially) for years. Now at 1.5 years from the final graduation, I’m already checking out cities…
My best ideas come out of restlessness and lots of thought. So far, anyway.
Joan
I think my best ideas come when my mind is clear. Under pressure or not pressure, my best work or ideas come when I have had some quality alone, quiet time. No cell phones, email-people bugging me you know what I mean. I come to learn that being nomadic is okay. I had a great house and all that goes with it. Due to major health problems-which have been healed I sold my house and sort became nomadic in Minneapolis. I took off for Kenya, then to China, then back to Kenya, then back home. I’m not really tied to anything. I love it. I have the ability to pack up and leave permanently with only a few months notice. Few people can do that. Houses and possesions aren’t really a big deal. Like money they come and go. But life is short-don’t miss out on what’s going on in the world. Enjoy the experience David. God Bless!
BOBB SAID:
“…We hammer wood for a house,
but it is the inner space
that makes it livable.
I forgot to add:
fuck the poetry:…”
PANOS SAYS:
“…how can you NOT love this guy???…”
Hey Bob, you are killing the tough gangsta in me now…
I love you man…
I dont know “how much” David pays you to stay on this blog…
all i know is that you deserved it….
peace
STEVE SAID:
“…I moved to Barcelona as a way to escape that numbness, the slow trickle of day after day… It’s what got me thinking about photography again. Not an easy move,……”
PANOS SCRATCHING HIS GREEK HEAD…
Hey Steve try to move to L.A… then you will see what a really
“NOT AN EASY MOVE”… means…
You will “think and act GONZO around here”…. because your life
will end up so crazy… to the point that when you EVEN photograph
only yourself, most of the times… is more than enough!!!!!…
In other words… :”…so much will happen to you”…
… and this is how i answer DAVID’S QUESTION about “the house of sand and fog”….
peace , again
SIDNEY:???
PANOS ASKS A STUPID QUESTION????
Why not black and white….?…
or totally … MEDIUM FORMAT??? for those amazing landscapes???
The last thing i can blame you of, is laziness…!
You made it all the way up there… You touched Tibet!!!
( you touched my heart, that’s for sure)…
but why not a “punch in my face”…. Why so safe and apologetic?
I got desperate for a second…. I need to see more of those holy places… dont just tease me….
peace… ( im impressed of your travelling…!!!)
http://www.telcomplus.net/satkins/photo6.html
hey DAVID , i forgot to say i’m glad you didnt rent that garbage…
its ready to fall apart…. when you come over…. the THIRD day ,
i will take you for a tour around “Hollywood”…
To be specific… i will take you to the “UNIVERSAL STUDIOS”…
You will witness the “house” that they shot “PSYCHO”…
… you know… my favorite director of all times:
“ALFRED HITCHCOCK”….
anyways… that’s how the “rental by the beach” looked like…
jesus!!!!!… maestro…
By the way… great picture!
peace
Hmmmmm, let me correct myself:PANOS ASKS A STUPID QUESTION????
Why not black and white….?… ”
i did a mistake… sorry.
This question is not stupid… it’s annoying!
IRRELEVANT:
“… Seattle… is my FAVORITE city in a
America..
I wish i had a friend over there! i wanna visit soon!…” panos wanders!
PEOPLE…. MY LATE SHOW IS NOW OVER….
Now my contribution, repeated….
Please visit my last “visit” to the movies below!
http://blog.panosfotografia.com/
peace out
Panos,
I can only imagine living in LA. I moved from small town Australia to London 6 years ago. That was a real eye opener for sure. Barcelona much more chilled, but a new place and that always makes me think more creatively. I think this debate has been on this forum before…it’s not about the place right? i.e moving has just given me a good kick in the arse to get more motivated, but not the source of my inspiration (a lot of my ideas for Photo/design whatever, could be shot anywhere).
s.
STEVE…
yes, some version this this discussion was up before…this time, i was going more for the circumstances of “stress” rather than physical space, although the two are tied i suppose…
CATHY…
i will go look for your alex webb note…and answer you!!!
MICHAEL LILLIE…
thanks….”houses and possessions…like money, they come and go”….so true….that is, unless that is what you value the most and “go for it” in that manner…donald trump will most likely always have a roof over his head…but, his photographs are terrible!!!
BOB….
yes, how do you come up with just the right quote at just the right time???? and how much DO i have to pay you to stay on this forum??
mostly, when are we going to meet?? i am around until around the 14th of this month and then again after march 10th…what is your schedule like???
oh yes, i meant to mention that i am going to put all of your pictures from your story up…i simply did not have the space before to do so….i want everyone to see the “context” of your work….
STEVE…
yes yes, i have thought a lot about Barcelona….i have worked there so many times and it seems just about perfect…the sea, the climate, mountains nearby and good coastal excursions up and down….only problem is: party all nite long!!! hmmmm, how do they survive???
PANOS…
ever see Hitchcock’s “The Rope” ??? one long shot..i love Alfred too…
yes, i like rainy Seattle…mostly the motel/hotel on the sound, the 50′s style Edgewater Inn (unless it has been torn down or renovated)…at the Edgewater you can fish from your room and see David Bowie (as Ziggy Stardust) or Cat Stevens walking down the hall…i guess that dates me a bit…
also, Tom (not Tim) Robbins, “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, hangs on one of those islands in the sound with several of his ex-wives all living happily together….hmmmmm, now there is a writer!!!
missing Kurt Cobain…..
‘
cheers, david
Hi David,
Your question relates well to me in its timing but I cannot answer it yet. What is important is that I will soon be taking the test! In four weeks, I am leaving all that I know and love behind to travel to the island of Roatan. I am preparing as much as possible, making contacts, planning tours, acquiring a second camera etc. In the comfort of my home, I am beginning to imagine the freedom that my unknown surroundings will soon provide to me. This is an entirely new arena for me. I have not travelled often and never without a family member.
The city girl goes to the country within a different country. I can hardly contain my excitement.
Last week I had a dream…I woke up excited and began to explain it to my three teenagers as they dressed for school. I explained that I had been dreaming about someone blowing bubbles….they laughed and asked what is so exciting about that…I tried to make them understand the importance of the symbolism of the bubble…the islands…explaining that it may not be the best symbol..but it is important because I am already looking for symbols…preparing..keeping my mind open..my eyes looking…
I am a planner..organized to a fault…and the last thing I want to do is come back home with a bunch of shit shots to submit as my next essay…god the pressure…i am loving the challenge…
oh….definitely stress brings out my energy and creativity. Like your words indicate, if everything was going great in a peaceful locale, I would definitely vegetate and procrastinate…..well, forever.
NANCY…
enjoy Roatan!!!…..how can you not?? and visit the other nearby islands too…please send us a link to your new work as soon as you have some…
PANOS..
that “house of sand and fog” is not really falling down…i was surprised at the distortion of that lens….not an “architecture” lens…or was it me?? (also a comment to you above..and we will try to reverse the order of the comments as per your suggestion…i would like that better too)
DAVID UKALEQ B…
i will try to post those this week ….
JASON…
still thinking about London….weather and expense still a factor, but there are others!!!
BJ A PATINO…
i showed my son bryan your comment…we both laughed!!! there was such an element of truth to it!!!
SIDNEY….
you have great insight….balance…yes, balance is the key….and yet and yet, so easy to get “out of balance”…THIS is a full time job, to stay balanced…so easy to “slide” one way or the other…
PAUL…
Motel 6??? what kind of beer???
DYLAN…
you know i am a California boy by birth ..always ready to head west…..are you in L.A.??? anyway, yes we will meet…i may drive out….love love the “road trip” concept….
JOAN…
“stable superficially”….now, that is the subject of a new post at some point…do you think Americans are more “on the move” than most other cultures??? most of my friends, and family, always think they will move somewhere else someday….
cheers, david
T.S.SULLIVAN….
i went to your site…very nice work!!! and great quote from one of my earliest influences, Harry Callahan…
cheers, david
David said: “…do you think Americans are more “on the move” than most other cultures???”
I think those down-under take the prize there! Funny…back in my bigtime traveling Kerouac kind of days the vast majority of “foreigners” I ran into were New Zealanders and Aussies. At one point I remember wondering, “Jesus, is there anybody in your country right now?” No joke…they were EVERYWHERE!
I was proud to be with and amoung some of the best world travelers.
And speaking of being a California boy, David…It always struck me that San Francisco was the place for you. I know it is for me! Well, it will be one day.
When it comes to dreams and where to lay your head at night nobody said it better than Victor Hugo. Koudelka used it as an intro to his “Exiles” book, perhaps the best photography book ever published. Here’s the quote:
“Exile is not a material thing,
it is a spiritual thing.
All the corners of the earth
are exactly the same.
And anywhere one can dream is good,
providing the place is obscure,
and the horizon is vast.”
—Victor Hugo
David:
u dont have to pay me squat ;))))…just pleasure :))>..as for meeting, i’d hope it would have been feb, but saw ur schedule…can we shoot for May? (send me a note and when u wont be workshopping or “homeless”)…marina and i await, eagerly :))>..as for the other pics, no worries, not a priority for me, bigger fish to fry for this blog: give the others attention and all those other singles and stories: that would mean more to me :)))..
and lastly, i was a California child too (born in san diego), although grew up rootless, travling around the globe…
as my son wrote in song he wrote for my 40th:
“He’s bobby-bobby-bob
born in San Diego, raised in California,
He’s bobby-bobby-bop”
:))
running
b
David
Exactly why I bought the farmhouse in Ireland…………..[while we were in Sicily!]
Currently a week a month there , lots of soul, lots of thought, lots of time to edit and plan [by this summer ALL my files and stuff will be there]
Another week a month here in the South of France, running the “other business”, great weather but the European California,very busy and not the quiet spot I moved to 15 years ago,
Remaining two weeks “on the road” working and photographing,e.g. November-Lisbon,December-Caribbean,January-Malta,this month-UK , March-Barcelona+Majorca etc.
Seems to work for me………..
I too am a “city boy” but can’t see going back to London [where it all started]or anywhere similar [I love Barcelona]apart from for the odd few days.
I really never thought I would hack it “in the country” but rural Ireland [for a week a month] is really good for the brain!
Answer therefore:country, city and everywhere else too!
Clive
p.s. The harder you work the luckier you get!
David and all-
I am still working on my first website and I have not gone live fully but I have started to gather some of my more recent work to share it with all. As usual, I need to do a much tigher edit of my work but this is just a start…. Would be great David if you have a chance to look at it and let me know what you think either on the Forum or private e-mail. I have posted pictures from the Easter processions in Sicily that you obviously have seen before….I have also posted more of the work that I did in the Cincinnati Over-the-Rhine ghetto. You also have a more complete overview of the project that I did on Reds fans (I had shared the start of this project with you before). Finally, I have also shared some really early work on other topics… Likely way too premature to share these but anyway…. I hope to hear what you think. The link is attached below. I hope it works. Glad to hear from all. Cheers, Eric
http://69.20.77.227/~eespinosa/main.php
Heh, I have never felt I’ve had a choice about where I live. Maybe once I finish my studies. But I’d not stay far from a big city. Funny that Barcelona is mentioned so often, it looks like one of my few reasonable choices in Spain. After long holidays, though.
“donald trump will most likely always have a roof over his head… but, his photographs are terrible!!” – must be the best DAH quote ever
So, David, have you seen Donald’s snapshots?
David,
Yeah, my original post was about stress…shifting your life to another place..everything unknown, so much learn….so much uncertain (not about the place itself, more about the pressure). For me, it’s given a more focused energy. Stress keeps you thinking in different ways for sure.
S
Before I moved to NYC, just under 3 years ago now, I lived on a little island in Maine..and I didn’t photograph. I baked pies, climbed mountains, walked to the post office to pick up mail with my beautiful dog daughter by my side, spent hours doing yoga and watching great films. And I made lots of pizza from scratch and played way too much scrabble. Now it’s me and the computer, or me and the camera, a really narrowed, yet expanded life.
I know that when I am balanced and happy with my surrounds, I don’t need to photograph. When I am searching and drawing joy from that, I do.
But i grew up first in an inner city for 10 years, then got moved to a sweet quiet oceanside -dry- town where everyone knows everyone. I guess i need both..ideally, it would be great to have a city place and a country place, but in reality, in shifts.
Living in a country would be an ultimate punishment for me… I am a city person… I just have to be able to walk out of my home and see people, they are everywhere going about their own things… no real need to communicate at all times but just their presence is what matters…
Hell, why not, here are the words, taken out of context, but still, from Nick Cave…
“There is a town Where I was born
Far, far away Across the see
And in that town Where I was born
I would dream That one day
I would leave And cross the see
And now I live In this town
I walk these dark streets Up and Down
under a dark sky And I dream
That one day I’ll go back home
And so it goes
And so it seems…”
Song ‘There is a town’ from the album Nocturama
Eric,
I have very fast internet connection but your images are loading for far too long… you got to do something about it if you want anyone to go through your site… I would love to see it
Best, Velibor
David-
The real estate issue, the homelessness. Here is the place for you. Next to the train-tracks, easy commute to NYC, VA beach.
I think Nick Nichols considered this place before he took the country plunge.
At the foot of Monticello in the bend of the river.
http://www.historicwoolenmills.org/2007/12/sunday-remembered.html
Regards,
Bill
Eric
This is a neonsky website correct?
I’m looking hard at moving my own site onto this platform. Would appreciate a dialogue on the pros and cons, probably best “offlist” to clive@clive-evans.com.
Anyone else here like to do the same-please do![Laura E-T,if you are here, really like what you have done with NS, can you give me some thoughts?]
Clive
Clive,
Yes it is indeed a neonsky website…Will be going live soon as I fix few things. I did look at several options myself but chose that provider, largely driven by the facts that I very much liked the site developed by Laura also and because I remembered that Lance made the point previously to David that that platform was great so I decided to give it a shot. I am certainly not an expert on websites but what I can say that that it did prove to be a very easy interface and would certainly recommend it.
Velidor, thanks for the feeback. I have realized that I posted some older pictures of mine taken in Cuba that were scanned and that were not at the right size so this is likely why this may take that long. This is helpful feedback and I will make sure I fix this shortly so that it does not frustrate all who want to check it out. Cheers, Eric
Panos…
Not stupid questions at all. I agree that most of those pictures on the site are too safe, too detached, too post-cardy. If I could go back now, the pictures would be quite different! My lame excuse is I wasn’t a ‘serious’ photographer in those days, my motivations and goals in travelling or being outdoors were not primarily about taking pictures, and most of those ‘souvenir’ photos were taken with a tiny pocket point-and-shoot camera because it was lightweight, compact, and cheap. (My favorites were the Olympus RD in the late 70s and the Olympus Mu in the mid 90s). Medium format? Back in the 80s and early 90s I used to salivate over the Pentax 6X7 in store windows but both body and lenses were always way, way out of my budget range, and when I finally got my hands on one, I realized I never wanted to lug it up those mountains. As for B+W, while I of course appreciate and admire good B+W, my mother was a painter, I studied painting before I owned a camera, and for me color was always what it was about…
Sidney