Same old route, same old routine

I takes da pictures;
I edits da pictures;
I posts da pictures;
and den I start all over again
and again...
and again...

Insanity is defined as the act of doing the same thing and expecting different results. I'm trying so very hard to avoid burning out but I feel my motivation to take up the camera and do the necessary back work is ebbing. I feel like I'm getting further and further behind in showing the images that I take. I haven't been able to make any progress on getting the website rebuilt. Though I'm close to having a gallery space, I'm afraid that if I get it, I'll have spent so much energy on getting to this point that I won't have any for advertising, building sales and such. Sales... yeah.. For as much of a reputation as I have, sales just aren't zipping along. Yes, a gallery would help as would a website.. Damn vicious circles...

This blog is looking more and more like a photo gallery and less like a place for me to post my thoughts and whims. It's not that I don't have things to say. It's more that I get to the computer and find myself struck by an amazing sense of writer's block, apathy or mental exhaustion. That's probably fueling my frustration in photography as well.

On that note, I finally remembered to upload 70+ images from Ego Likenss's show last November. I'll put them up in a separate and less frustrated post.

Ego Likeness – Live in Nashville (2009)

Singles and slideshows


( Photos [xx behind this cut] )

( Slide show )

Abandoned Places – Hartselle, AL Wander – Summer 2009

Every little town has them, the little store or shop that closed for no particular reason. Here in the southern US, these places spring up on the roadside like wildflowers in spring and fade away after a few years. Sometimes they’re well established and sometimes they’re holes in the wall. Here’s several places I found in and around the town of Hartselle, Alabama.



( Small town memories [13 behind this cut] )

Weather and Grrrrr

I was supposed to do a set of photos at 11am with a local model I'd wanted to work with for months. We decided to reschedule the shoot at 10am because the clouds and threat of weather were bad. It's now 11 and the sun has broken through the clouds in several places. I know that the minute I call back to ask if she'd like to try again today, the clouds and rain will roll in. Sigh..

Video of the Whatever - Alice in Chains (MTV - Unplugged)

Nutshell was the lead song of the show and related CD. I've always found the song to be a poignant reminder of the late Layne Staley's incredible talent.