Random Images To Ring In The New Year. January 2, 2009
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Happy New Year.
Yeah, I know. I’m late.
And I’m not happy.
But it is a new year, and I’m gonna go out there and see it, and live it, and take a little bit of it home with me to share with you.
‘Cause unfortunately, that’s all I got.
I mean, I have a head full of ideas, some so vivid and pressing that they drive me off the Goddam road, yet they won’t come out, not from my lips, or through my finger tips, not onto this page, not onto the palette of my life.
I’m a little bit lost, and entirely reduced to spinning a few dials and pressing the shutter release, and being disappointed with the results.
Not that the results are awful, mind you; I suppose they’re passable, as snapshots go. But they’re certainly not a way out, and I so need that.
Well, anyway.
Here are a few from the last couple of days, and no, I’m not pleased with them; I’ve stepped on them pretty heavily to get them this far, and it isn’t far enough.
A Rural Route to Nowhere:
A Sunset Stubbornly Refusing to Happen:
Trees in Fading Light:
And this, plucked from the single-digit night, with fingers blistering as my tears froze in the wind:
Damn, it was cold!
And finally, a visit to Sunset Strip:
Same place, different tears, mere minutes later.
I’ll get beyond this, I know; the days will grow longer, and life will return beneath my feet.
But for now, this is how it is.
Dear CR, I’ve been worried about you and just had a feeling something was not good about the place you had suddenly or not so suddenly found yourself. Your photos may not be enough to please you, but they are exquisite as always. I know that doesn’t help lift you from the place you find yourself right now, but I wanted you to know that you have so many friends that care so deeply and I’m one of them. It’s a dumb thing to say under the circumstances, but please do know that as a friend, I’m here for you. I hope the sun comes out for you over the weekend. Much love to you, Sylvia
You need to listen to the Annie soundtrack. And when you have finished, you need to come to our reception, work clothes and all. We have a place to scrub you up a bit and make you presentable. I’m not just trying to fill the place with friendly faces, but part of what you’re feeling is a bit of staleness. You need to get out into the world a bit more and start shooting other places. Places you don’t know like the back of your hand. Just an idea.
Tschuss!
I think Frau Biergut has a good point. When you’re off for the winter, take a trip to the Adirondacks or to Montreal to see Mark.
And even maybe experiment with photographing non-standard stuff (for you, since you are a nature photographer).
Remember that cool self-portrait? (no, not that one!) of you making the peace sign? That kind of thing.
And it’s winter, which always manages to make me sluggish and a bit depressed.
I’m glad EP is with you; and soon US, too. But I’d love a turn with EP; I miss her!
Is SAD catching up with you? You sound so like someone else I know who has a real problem with winter. Your pictures are fine enough to please anyone – except you apparently. You need a boost of some kind. Sunshine might do it. It might do it for me too. Let’s run away together. Well, that might not be practical.
Just wait until March. You’ll hear me making noises like yours are right now. By March I’m usually ready to flip out.
Bobbie, you managed to get a big smile out of me there!
And yeah, you’re all correct, I’m SAD and stale and stuck.
But today is sunny, and I’m going fishing for some viatmin D for my Solar Sex Panel.
See you all soon.
Oh, and Gina, might we do a swap on Monday evening? I’ll be going to G’field to get SG2, a.k.a. US… we’ll talk.
i liked the peace sign!!!
i hope you feel more at ease with yourself soon. i know how it is and it isn’t easy.
but you are a good man and you have good friends!
smile for that.
The pictures are beautiful as always. You have a talent, my friend.
It seems like you have good people around you who care very much for you. I hope you’ll let them brighten your days until the sun comes back.
You are late? Look at me, just getting here.
Oh you must know that on 12/31/08 my family and I were in Saratoga Springs for First Night festivities.
One respite from the cold was an art gallery in which music was being played. The crowd around the musicians was wide and deep and I felt restless, so I wanted to see the actual art.
Among the many pieces hung on the wall, there were photographs. Now they were very lovely photographs, but again I am biased to photo art, but I thought they were fantastic.
However, what was nagging me was that your work is as good or better than what I saw there. I am not saying that to flatter you CR, not at all.
I am saying that to tell you that you have a gift, a profound gift. That you share it here with us is good and important, but there is more.
Your work is crying out – IMHO anyway – to be published. You have a gift, please share it more widely if you can.
Dear, dear Fran! I know you’re busy, and hope things are settling in at your new (!) job. Does that tell you how out of the loop I’ve been?
Excepting Pagan Sphinx, who has been close to my heart for going on thirty years (yikes!) yours is among the longest associations I’ve had here in the ’sphere.
And chief among the attributes which I ascribe to you is an unflinching honesty.
So I have to say that I believe you, and I know that I should try to do something with this passion, and if I had the courage to commit to this mystery, I’d have made a resolution to do so in this new year.
This may be as close as I can come to doing so without perjuring myself, as I’ve suffered from a life-long inability to follow through.
C’est la vie, but ce n’est pas my destiny, not with friends like you. Or so, at least, I hope.
All of you, thank you so much for your support and encouragement. You’re more than kind, and without you I’d have taken up billiards long ago.