Kinda Sorta...Untitled

Today is good. While sitting here thinking of something to write and not knowing what to say, the following things surfaced...in no attempt to be cohesive I will just list them:

1.  Regrets should always be anticipated and actions should yield towards avoiding them. Always. 

2. The line between appearing very collected and the urge to scream is dreadfully thin.

3. Sometimes hiding in the bathroom to indulge in a New Yorker article about whether or not Timothy Ferriss has any self help guru advice that I might relate to, is my guilty pleasure.

4. Listening to Bon Iver has enchanting effects on my smile.

5. Beautiful people are often untapped, and sometimes they have a small little black cloud with them even in the happiest moments...it helps them to never forget about the suffering in the world.

So I guess I am in not much of a mood to write.  I suppose I will disappear into my Lightroom and revisit Coney Island. 2007. With Jeremiah.

The School in Prehistoric Notions

The camera is a writing tool.

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Digital photography allows an infinite amount of second chances and I must be careful that I don't "overwrite" my photoshoots with many versions of the same photograph...Meaning if I had a roll of film with 36 exposures on it I would use the whole roll and hope that there were at least 10 good pictures on it.  I would then develop a contact sheet and choose a few that I really wanted to take the time to process and I would spend the afternoon in the darkroom perfecting those images.  Sounds almost prehistoric but it really taught me to decide which photographs summed up the moment the best whether it was an ominous day at the beach or photographing a newborn baby. Just like a book that is long winded and wordy, too many photographs can distract from a beautiful story as well. One of the most memorable things I read recently implored photographers to take thousands of photographs but delete almost all of them in the end...that is when you start to SEE your photographs and of course, learn how to let some go.