The district of disappointment

While I was at the Mountain Workshop, Scott Strazzante gave me some excellent advice. He said that when you propose a project, people tend to get visual expectations and preconceive notions about what good pictures will come out of it. In order to avoid this, Scott shoots the whole project with an open mind, and is almost finished with it before he presents it to the Chicago Tribune.  While I should have entered the Washington D.C. road trip without pictures in my mind that I planned to return with, I was not so smart. Instead I ended up with nothing I expected, and taking about one-fourth the photos I had planned on, due nasty weather and influenza. (Both of which I feel don’t count as good excuses.) I did manage to have a fabulous time, however. It was my first trip to capitol, I stayed in a really expensive hotel suite at the cost of Mr. Kernel, had probably the best coke float known to man-kind, and saw my first real live panda bears. The trip wasn’t disappointing in a vacation sense, more in the sense that I’m disappointed in myself for returning with such few images from a city so visually enticing. But I can’t lie, I did need a vacation.

Enough of that; here are a few photos from this weekend. enjoy. Here are a few photos from this weekend:

This was a kid sitting in the subway. Its not that great of a photo, but I’ve been trying to watch for graphically appealing type things. I really need to build up my single photo skills.

This I liked simply because of the little moment in the right corner.

I really wish I had gotten this from a different angle. But I liked how everyone surrounding the saxophone player is blurred.

high time

It’s a wonder I haven’t created a blog before now. I like pictures, I like words. I take photos, I craft thoughts. Thanks to Brad, for the much needed push to get one of these going.

Moving on, I returned from the Mountain Workshop to mounds of homework, so naturally I turned to Starbucks for a supportive boost, where I ironically found a quote that I wanted to share. I felt like this quote I found on my cup made of 90% recycled material really summed up my life as a photographer right now.

“The most important thing in life is to stop saying “I wish” and start saying “I will.” Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.” -David Copperfield.