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karen.wattie{at}fanciful.org wrote:

> ->
>  I find that when I flat-spot in one medium, switching to
> -> another medium can be extremely refreshing.
>
> I'm amazed how many people think I've hit a flat spot.  That's not the
> problem.  Just every once in a while I come to realize my pictures are
> just that....just pictures, not often anything special.

We have met the most severe critic and he is us - to paraphrase Pogo.

I was much reassured by Ansel Adams saying that if he got one really good
shot a year, he was pleased. No one shoots an endless string of
masterpieces. In fact top commercial shooters will go through dozens of
rolls just to get a single ad shot that does the job.

I always try to shoot the very best shot I can under the given set of
cirumstances. It may not be a masterpiece, but it is the very best I can do.
I can live with that. Perhaps too, like becoming blasé to our surroundings,
we also become overly familiar with our own work.

>  -> In a couple of months it will be spring again, and with spring seems
> to come
> -> new optimism. If the camera - like the grass - lies dormant for a
> while, no -> problem.
>
> That's true.  But it wouldn't be like me to put it away that long.  I've
> just found out about a group that meets 30 miles away and they have guest
> speakers, etc.  One that has caught my interest is about polaroid
> transfers.  Ever since I saw some of those last spring I have thought it
> would be fun to try that.  If I can get there, I'm likely to go.  But,
> it's the same day as my new painting course starts, so I'll  likely be
> too tired to attend.  Sigh.
>
> I'm not bored.  I'm just over tired.  That depresses me a bit but I'll get
> over it eventually.

Long dark days to that to a lot of people. In Anchorage, the sun did not
clear the mountains until almost noon in mid-winter. By 2:30 pm it was
getting dusk again. Made on feel like joining the bears and hibernating.

larry!
ICQ 76620504
http://www.larry-bolch.com/

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