Cleaning Time
I’ve only had this new website up for 5 months and it’s already gotten cluttered. I suppose it’s not surprising with the shear volume of photography I’ve been doing, but it’s time to clean my galleries up. I want my galleries to represent my absolute best photography, and for the most part that means my most recent photography. The blogs remain a sort of “sketchbook” that get posted and left as is, and the galleries are a living document.
So I’ve consolidated the galleries down to six (Landscapes, Birds, Textures and Abstracts, Plants and Flowers, Bugs and Insects, Wildlife), and cut a lot of photos out of them. Many of the cut photos still live on this site somewhere in the blogs, but a lot of the cut photos are from my old website and aren’t in a blog. So this post here is basically just a dumping ground for photos that I still like, but were cut from galleries and need a place to live on the site.
Since ‘Landscapes’ make up the overwhelming majority of photography I’m doing right now, that was the hardest place to make cuts. I don’t know if I have a specific number of photos that I want to keep it under, but it’s more a sense of “does this photo represent me now”. Which is a qualification that changes frequently!
‘Wildlife’, ‘Plants and Flowers’, and ‘Bugs and Insects’ galleries remain largely untouched, since I haven’t been doing much of that photography lately.
‘Textures and Abstracts’ is probably my favorite gallery and only got a few cut.
‘Birds’ is another tough one. I’ve gotten a lot of bird photography practice on this trip, and I’m slowly moving past the “just get a clean, sharp, properly exposed image” phase of bird photography. Documenting new birds I’ve seen with a clear photo is something I’ll probably never stop doing, but I also want to expand to ‘birds in their environment’, ‘birds doing interesting things’, and ‘birds as art’. You can see me working on that with some of my recent Blue Heron photos. I’ve taken more than enough documentation photos of Blue Herons, so now when I see one, I can take the risk of trying something different with the composition.
It’s probably best that I never try to pursue photography as a profession, because I certainly gnash my teeth about it enough just as a hobby.
