Who

I often start blogs and abandon them, it's kind of a personal trademark of sorts but I am hoping that this one sticks. I decided to start chronicling my journey in photography in weblog format, this journey started about 10 years ago when I took a high school photography class where I worked with REAL film and a dark room. I enjoyed the change of pace from my academic schedule and I was actually pretty decent but I never really had any desire to further my short lived interest. Fast forward 10 years, we chronicle everything today in photo format, we post on Facebook, Twitter, blogs (ahem), and society as a whole has embraced photography as not only art but as a form of communication.

I feel that in some ways photography has almost become a competition, who can post the photo that insight the most interest or generates the most comments by friends. Photography also, in my opinion has become over processed in post editing and I myself have fallen into this trap. Don't get me wrong, I love artistic license and filters, shading, overexposing and burned edges all have a place, but when a whole photo-shoot is masked in edits it loses something and I would dare say that it's genuineness (is that a word?).

So, am I a good photographer, will I post images that will get you talking, that will move you to comment and praise my work? No, but in all fairness a lot of my work is not for you, it's for me. Photography is not always something I enjoy (although I am sure my husband would disagree citing the camera that is constantly in his face), but the artistic release is, I also like to paint and sculpt.

So this blog is for me, a regular photo-jane, another girl in the crowd with a DSLR. I hope that from time to time you visit my blog and let me share with you a glimpse into my world behind-the-lens and maybe behind the brush and canvas as well!