April 12, 2004
photoblog?
there's a request at the end of this, so skip down a bit if you'd rather.
I enjoy photography, but I havent spent much time with it for a while. I'm not sure how good I ever was, but I had fun with it in highschool and college, taking classes and lots of pictures. I even had a rudimentary darkroom in my bathroom, which was quite cool. but then my old pentax spotmatic was lent and came back broken, and all the lenses and whatnot have long been sold on ebay.
so I was condemned to a crappy digital camera for a few years, which sapped most of the artistry from the pictures I took. more acurately, I took an entirely different approach to taking pictures: it was only about documenting whatever the heck we were up to. I did take some flower shots now and then, with moderate success, but thoughts of composition, color, etc we're fleeting.
now that our first kid is on the way, we got a pretty decent snapshot digicam (sony dsc-p72 - 3.2mp). the color and contrast aren't exactly to my liking, but that's why I've got Photoshop, and I'm thankful for it. so today I tweaked some of my latest flower pics, and I was pretty happy with the result. so I'm toying with the idea of a photoblog. I'm no Monty, but I can at least try.
which brings me to my request for you: what do you think? are these pics worth looking at? should I bring more to blogland, or just keep them to myself on the family site? I do post lots of our snapshots there, but I seldom shoot for aesthetic reasons. I guess there's lots of different reasons for a photoblog? so dear readers (as the cartalk guys would say: both of you), any thoughts?
Posted by bobw at April 12, 2004 10:30 AM
well, I don't check your fam site as often as yr blog, and I like the pics, so I'm in favor of seeing more pics.
Pictures worth a thousand words
What I've seen is what I've heard
Honestly, I'll scroll through much of the text (if the entry is long)to see the pictures. Keep it up Bob, and I'll visit even more often!
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