I made this image of downtown Victorville back in August 2014 in the morning. Photography is really a kind of therapeutic thing
for me. I don’t know if I’m mentally
unstable or not (I don’t feel like I am) but I feel really good when I’m
creating images. It’s just something
about #photography that challenges me to take what may pass as ordinary and to
try to make it extraordinary. I don’t
think this image is that but that is always the goal. But this image does is a part of my
continuing Victor Valley Project and you can look as some older examples of
that at my web site if you are so inclined.
Though not extraordinary, I think this is a strong image though.
I live in a scenic paradise – the Victor Valley. I know, some people would say, “What? #Victorville,
Hesperia, Apple Valley and so on, are a part of a scenic paradise?” It’s all in how you form your own thoughts
about yourself and your life. You want
crap and feel like crap – I guess you’re crap.
I see what I see and I see a scenic paradise. This is Mt. Baldy as seen east of Deep Creek
Road at the top of the hill on Bear Valley Road. It is part of the San Gabriel Mountains in
San Bernardino County. It is above 10,000
feet. It is magnificent. And it is an image I like a lot.
It’s been a long time since I wrote something here. Well, I have been busy. I graduated from Cal State San Bernardino in
the summer of 2014. I got a job later
that year. I worked at that job for
almost a year before I got the really great job I have now. And I closed on a house last October and got
my kids out of that horrible apartment complex we lived in for too long. Yes, I would say that I have been a little
preoccupied. But #photography is my thing
and I miss it tremendously. And this
blog is a good vehicle to show some of it. So I need to get back to it.
