me at 38
Disclaimer: Photographer shown in photo actually aged 37 at time of photo. Photographer is at-this-minute not in a Culver City hotel room as pictured.
low resolution photography by davin risk
notes
Tonight I finished spotting and colour-correcting around 118 images that will make up an on-demand photo book of images seen on this site over the last few years. Since I post here less than I used to I felt like pulling all of the shots that I thought were my best from the site together into a book would be a nice exercise and also serve as a tangible archive for myself and anyone else interested.
Over the past three and a half years I feel like I have progressed with photography and I do have a much better grasp of what I want to photograph and why. In fact, I now have the knowledge that I do want to photograph which wasn’t really on my radar back in early 2003. I still pause before calling myself a photographer half the time but I also can’t rightly just call it a hobby at the same time. Except for a couple of photos that I’ve taken “on assignment,” I take photos for myself and don’t really have any urge to become a “pro.” But as my primary mode of expression, photography means far too much to me to think of myself as a hobbyist.
But why is it that with 4 years of a Fine Arts BA distantly behind me, calling myself “an artist” also seems like the wrong title — or maybe too connected to a world that despite my education I never pursued. It’s not that I don’t think I’m good enough. I feel like there is so much more I can do and learn but I am also truly proud of some of the images I’ve made. I realize that these are sort of get-over-yourself kind of questions and their answers aren’t critical to my sanity or anything but there is still a part of me that feels a twinge of “shit or get off the pot” on occasion.
Maybe I just owe it to myself to spend the time I need to realize what is the most comfortable “next level” is for me and photography and to probably respect myself enough to call myself a photographer and an artist and worry about what those terms might mean later. Just taking the photos is the important part after all.
Okay… internal monologue over. As you were.
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Gayla has just released a beautiful calendar filled with her botanical images.
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“Get inspired through 12 months in the garden. This full color calendar features 30 rich garden and botanical images along with a selection of organic gardening tips, growing techniques, and creative ideas. Learn about tasty edible flowers, growing great garlic, making your own seed-starting mix and more. Photography and text by Gayla Trail creator of the acclaimed gardening website YouGrowGirl.com and author of You Grow Girl: The Groundbreaking Guide to Gardening.”
two at dusk
We launched a new version of SUPERfantastico today. It’s taken us a long time to get all the pieces together and it’s really great to have passed a phase. There’s still lots of work to be done to get where we want to be but we are really happy with what’s there now. Take a peek, we even have a few photo-related products and we’ll be adding more soon.
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Photos from the recent Photogrammetry show are now on sale. The prints are 7″ x 10.5″ and there is a single print of each photo available.
Please also take a look at the beautiful prints that Gayla has for sale.
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