(embiggenable) • early CANON G series Powershot camera
(embiggenable) • early CANON G series Powershot camera
(embiggenable) • early CANON G series Powershot camera
(embiggenable) • early CANON G series Powershot camera
(embiggenable) • early CANON G series Powershot camera
GOING BACK TO THE EARLIEST-CIRCA 2003-SAVED DIGITAL PICTURE FILES in my 7,766 finished picture file library, I have been pulling out what might be considered as the "best of" my ku, aka: nature / landscape, pictures. My reason for doing so is 2-fold.
First, I have been contemplating the purchase of new hiking boots. Second, I consider it kinda like a refresher course, re: how I made pictures of the Adirondack landscape / natural world. The first and second reasons are intrinsically connected inasmuch as I want new hiking boots because I want to get into the woods much more consistently to, once again, start making Adirondack landscape / natural world pictures. Somehow, for some reason, I feel as if I have to do so.
However, that written, while going through my landscape /nature pictures (which number in the high triple digits), I have begun to question whether or not I have anything more to say about that specific referent. Inasmuch as my vision, aka: what pricks my eye and sensibilities and how that dictates how I picture it, has not changed in any significant manner from what it was 40 years ago, I am concerned that the best I could do returning to landscape / nature picture making is to repeat myself.
On the other hand, while I believe that I have made some really good, even outstanding, landscape / nature pictures, especially intimate landscape / nature pictures, maybe, sine qua non wise, the object is to create a new 20-30 picture body of work that represents the ne plus ultra of my concept of landscape / nature photography. That idea seems like a worthy and doable undertaking.
In any case, I am getting a new pair of hiking boots.