I have spent most of September shooting editing and uploading weddings... I have had no time for my thesis work ..or any personal photo work! The boys (my 3 sons, Dan Kevin & Harry) are in school and have been reacclimating to student life. Sports friends homework and dances have been taking up the rest of my time. I don't want to miss anything but I can't do it all. I have yet to make a time to meet my mentor and mid-semester is just about right now. Complain Complain Complain!
My new students at Salt are really very nice and I think they will do well. I look forward to seeing the work they do and watching them grow through the process of Salt.
I had a great conversation with a very close friend of mine about the way images have supplanted text as the predominate way of comunication on a grand scale. We are so used to images in our everyday lives that we don't stop and really look at what is in front of our eyes, maybe because there is so much of it that we are overwhelmed. There is no de-coding of imagery, we accept what is in front of us and assume that the image has been manipulated. We SEE that the image has been"doctored" or cleaned up, smoothed out, but we don't stop to think why was it manipulated. It's like fast food it is meant to be consumed mindlessly. Photographs are not reality, especially today with the powerful digital technology that can create the illusion of something really being where it never existed.
I think I'm rambling, too much time in front of this machine and not enough in front of the trees and river surrounding my house.
Time for a break.
