So, I really need to catch up in my post production for my images. There
is so much I want to do but can't until my images are ready to go. I guess every photographer has that
situation. Oh well, this is a shot from
my phone in the Target parking lot in Apple Valley, CA - where I live. No post production, just the shot from the
phone because I thought the clouds were really dramatic looking. Truth be told, I think it is fine as is.
So I changed my website a little bit.
I want to give a go at moving my art work into something that can
sustain itself. It’s kind of like
letting the art do the work. That was
silly but you know what I mean. I will
be updating it with more current work and getting back to competing too – I’m
referring to art contest. We’ll see how
this turns out but in the meantime the link is to the revamped website.
They look like sentinels guarding something. Or maybe they look like large cranes in the
shipyards. Then again, it could be
robots waiting for the menacing dark robot that is advancing on their
position. They are just #mustard and
mayo dispensers unless you let your imagination go.
I am really drawn to images of the eastern sky at dawn in
particular. This image is from where I
use to live in Victorville looking east towards Apple Valley – where I live
now. I wonder, did I know something but
was not aware of it?
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.
