TECHNICAL DETAILS
f/8 and be there. Still life, 2015 Leica V-Lux (Typ114) Focal length: 80mm (effective) ISO 800 1/500 at f/8 The camera was on my trusty old Bogen tripod. The main light is an Excalibur head set at about 400 watt seconds bounced off a Photoflex umbrella high camera left and a Photoflex gold 28″ relfector on a stand camera right just in front of the bag. Developed in Lightroom CC.

10,000,001: A BLOG ODESSEY
The world is in desperate need of the 10,000,001st blog on photography. Fortunately, I am up to that challenge. Clearly, that implies that this journal is meant to be pretty introspective, since I’m not convinced that anyone else might read this. That’s ok. I need a place to record things for me. The founding of this site is really about more than photography. Technology is a key component, too. Moving this site to WordPress from my previous site, which was run on DotNetNuke, gives me the opportunity to learn another prevalent technology. WordPress is the most widely-used content management system on the web, and it’s a critical demand factor in my professional life as well. So, the ability to put up my own site and really understand the technology is as much a driving interest as recording my ponderings on creating images. The discipline of writing consistently and sticking to it is another one that requires as much practice as shooting photos. In the dim, halcyon days of my youth, I worked as a writer for radio production at Earthwatch. It was an award-winning, 2-minute daily spot that (in the pre-podcast era) aired on a couple of hundred radio stations around the upper Midwest. As a staff writer, and later voice, for the program across nearly 4 years, I was challenged to sit in front of my typewriter daily and produce consumable content. Yes, I said typewriter. I remember how thrilling it was to gain access to a word processor sometime after I started there early in my graduate school experience. It’s a long way to this online journal. But regardless of the technology, I soon established a rhythm and learned how to write consistently even when I wasn’t particularly inspired by a given topic, or feeling in a creative mood. Those scripts that were the hardest to write still went into the studio every other Monday morning, eventually making their way onto the broadcast spectrum whether I thought they were ‘good’ or not. Part of establishing this journal, then, is to re-learn some of that discipline in communications, both verbal and visual. How long will this last? Who knows. I’m going in with an open mind.

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