For Christmas Heather got me a binder filled with pages for organizing and archiving negatives. So, yesterday, in an uncharacteristic show of enthusiasm for slow, tedious tasks, I put all my negatives into this binder, segment by segment. When I got that done, I decided to put all the corresponding prints into an album we had been given for our wedding but never used. Flipping through my pictures got me excited again about photography. I find it easy to get discouraged – I’m not an experienced photographer and I tend to be highly critical of any creative output I might venture to produce. However, looking through these pictures got me energized about taking photographs. I had been meaning to put together an album on my photo gallery of all my favorite SLR shots, but I got bogged down at some point and gave up. Fortunately, with all the prints in an album, I found the task of picking favorites much easier than trying to do so looking through pictures online. So, I present to you, my favorites. I have this gallery broken up into 4 sub-galleries: people, places, things, and events. I hope you enjoy them.
Below is one of my absolute favorites, from the Ringling Bros. Circus visit to Boston in October, 2006:
You’ve really got some great shots! I especially enjoy the “things” category. We could decorate our house with your artwork. I’m glad you’re excited about photography again!
Nice photo!! I like elephants. I’m sure if I knew more about photography I could say it had good composition or something, you know, the contrast between the gray of the elephants and the clouds reflected on the building…
Also, I really dig the picture in “things” of the chairs on the tables at Dunkin Donuts. You’re pretty good for “a non-experienced photographer.”
Thanks. I do my best. I’d like to get into it more but it can be a very expensive hobby and expensive hobbies and grad school don’t mix so well. I’ll keep you posted.
Yeah Colin, I like your photos. Your People series is my favorite.