something has kept me la-stuck and states-stuck… i’m trying to get all un-
Counting the days until I’m off. The new passport is here. The old one came back, too. I’ve already started changing my seat on the flights. Thinking about outfits and images. Can you tell I’ve finally gotten excited?
This will be the first trip with the dslr. I’m nervous. I want to take in so much. I was so timid and tentative when I was in France. It was the first time shooting dig, I hadn’t read the manual and I didn’t want to look like a tourist. Yeah, whatever. It shows. Over it. Kinda.
I’m so glad to be able to have the immediacy of the dig. Glad that I can work on getting better and learn more in the moment. I doubt that I would have seen the growth from what I shot in Paris to what I’ve got from Montagnac if I hadn’t seen what was captured right away. I’ve still got undeveloped rolls and disposable cameras with long gone photographs taken all over Europe.
I’m in prep mode now. Feeding my shooter’s brain with images that captivate me and studying more about how to read and manipulate light. I want to knowingly craft more photographs than have happy accidents.
I hadn’t looked at the stuff from France in a while. I lost a lot in the Great Hard Drive Crash of ’06. But, I notice so much from just these few old pictures. So much of who I was and how I approached seeing and being seen. I can’t wait to discover how much has changed and find out what’s left to conquer.
Nikki♥