Still Got The Blues
BUT I’ve been reunited with an old friend:
With a fresh set of 11’s for my friend, we’re gonna kick back and get reacquainted.
On other fronts:
One of my favorite photo sites has gotten a bit too tech-ie for my taste lately. It is great to see young women learning the fine points of expensive cameras & lenses. On the other hand I am concerned that others will feel alienated by all the expensive gear being flashed (no pun intended) around them.
I’m especially looking forward to shots from the photo walk at blogher ‘08 since there is no way I can be there myself. Perhaps someone will get some shots from Suzanne’s Good Vibrations excursion as well.
Let me try to offer a little inspiration to everyone out there with less than the latest and greatest photo gear. Every photo on this blog was taken with digital cameras that went out of production 5-7 years ago. If I can manage to take pictures with obsolete gear just imagine what you can do with that nearly new point and shoot camera.
So it comes down to a bragging rights of who has the biggest and the bestest. I will let the “boys” brag without me, thank you.
Some of the best photography produced by the best artists of all time were done on equipment that was nothing more than a lens cap in front of a plate. Having a $13,000.00 camera will not make you a photographer and it will not make you an artist. If the site you alluded to is the one I think it is, I visited once and was not impressed with what I saw at all.
It isn’t the camera that is important, it is the hands holding the camera and the eyes looking through the lens.