Adventure awaits at every turn. Started out the day in ER at
Methodist getting treated for the six, what I still believe were, spider bits
in both of my armpits. Doctor says they weren’t but I say they were. Anyway I
hurt much more when I left than when I went in. Tomorrow morning is the
remaining cataract surgery. After that I do hope that the adventures will come
fewer and farther between. It’s been a roller coaster of a month.
Went to an excellent talk at NWHPC tonight. Dion McInnis
gave a talk on What You See Is Not What You Get. Lots of memorable lines that I
would like to talk about. But to boil it down to the essence you have to get yourself
into the photograph and not worry if other people do not see what you see. You
do that by using photographic technique not to mimic what wins ribbons, or what
someone else is doing. You do it by understanding the language of the
photography, what the technique means, and knowing how to manipulate that technique in order to convey the
message you intended.
The talk emphasized a lot of the things that causes me
problems with camera clubs in general. It also emphasized the problem I have
with VAA and telling other people how to make their art. I would really like to
find a group or start a group to simply discuss photography—no competitions, no
rules. But to do that the photographer has to be able to talk about what they
are doing photographically and few can. Best I can tell, few photographers have
any idea why they are photographers or what they want to say through their
photographs. And here I swore at the beginning of the year that I was no longer going to
care about such things.
I really miss the group in Wichita Falls that met weekly in
Theo Gresham’s ham shack. I am a much better photographer today than I was then
but that will probably always remain the highlight of my foray into
photography. I miss you Skinny, Theo, Phillip and all the rest. I have greatly
enjoyed the course set at those meetings. Thank you all.
Gary, you continue to care because you love photography and because it is an outlet for your creative abilities. Don't stop ranking and raving, the message is worth it.
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