This year, I resolved not to go looking for pictures, camera in hand. Instead
I'd wait for them to find me, and take only those that jumped out and asked.
Not too surprisingly, I didn't take very many. That was of course half the
reason for trying this: I had a huge backlog of unsorted pictures from 2004.
The other half of the reason was that I felt (and feel) a little bored with
those pictures, it was starting to look like I could find the same pictures
anywhere. So I hoped to find, well, something... perhaps about how things look
in person, rather than at the editing stage.
1
My Apartment's Windows
2
Home Revisited
3
Africa's Dry Mountains
I suppose it's not surprising how many of these feature unmanageable contrast:
it took a long time to learn to when the light was and wasn't suitable for slides.
And with it the rejection of a good part of the visual experience.
The Drakensberg's light is invariably harsh except for a few minutes at each
end of the day. The last 4 here are from the Magaliesberg, a system of narrow
canyons which only ever get noonday sun and deep blue shade. This
picture is one of the only ones I have which captures a bit of what it's
like.
There are some earlier home pictures in Home
33, and also these pictures
from Cape Town.
See Also...
These weren't quite the only pictures I took this year, there are some from
(the last 2 days of) a road
trip to Kentucky, and from the
top of the customs tower, Boston on my Brown website. (Plus Snow,
and Zaatar.)
And I was in Rome last
December, and Sardinia
in January.
