Today’s post is number 100. Hopefully they’ve been enjoyable for you.
It’s been an experience for me as I return to a part of what began my career many years ago. It’s been quite some time since I wrote a weekly newspaper column about photography. One day I’ll have to go into the fading print archives and see how relevant those articles are to today’s more rapidly moving news and information age.
I’m suspicious that if you substitute Microdol-X and Dektol for Lightroom and Photoshop, ASA for ISO, grain for noise and pneumatic tube for FTP, things haven’t changed all that much.
The techniques and processes may have changed. Yet, still, a good photo from 50 years ago is still a good photo today.
The quality and direction of light hasn’t changed. Pleasing composition is still an absolute. Precise timing is still required.
What continues to be most important is to choose your photos so they teach us a little bit about today, about ourselves and about who we are as observers.
Hey Gary.
Congrats on number 100! I really enjoy your blog, and try to drop by regularly. Westerville is lucky to have someone like you documenting, not only the images, but the stories that surround them.
Here’s to a few hundred more articles.
Michael Corder
Thanks Mike. It’s been a good time the last couple of years.