jjmaccrimmon | Photo updates and plans

The last 3 months has been a welcome change and reprieve in my photo activities. Before shuttering the "Nature Photo of the Day (NPotD)" for a well deserved though unexpectedly long rest, I was getting seriously burnt out on the necessities of photo editing and tagging. As it was, that necessity played out earlier this month as well discovered someone had been stealing massive amounts content from the "AbandonedPlaces" community and posting it on their personal blog (with some credits) without permission. All the copyright tags were key in removing content.

I went in to do some substantial storing and editing in my filing system day before yesterday. I organize the various photo shoots by year, then by broad subject, then by individual shoot and store them all in an external drive after they're edited and published. This year's storage folder was filled with many modeling sessions, shows & events, family mayhem, nature images and more than a few abandoned site hunts. I realize I haven't posted as many of them here as I have to Facebook, but that's been the issue more of time available versus desire and content appropriateness versus prudish hosting services (PhotoFuckit). Several modeling sessions and events have been published exclusively over on my mature content location on FetLife (gasp and shock).

I'm still playing catch up on edits and posting. I likely will be for years to come I'm afraid. In recent shoots, I've been facing the prospect of having too many good images to weed through. There are worse situations I know. Because I'm my worst critic, I have taken to uploading modeling session pics to "Dropbox" and sending the model the link. Then I make them chose a percentage they want edited. Usually these correspond with images I'm selected and sometimes I'll add several more.

Because the photo studio and associated website are on hold due to the financial situation, I'm kinda vacillating on what to do and where to proceed. I have been enjoying the break, but I'm also afraid that if I put this aside for too long I won't return with any enthusiasm. While some will disagree with this, my experience with the SCA and being unable / unmotivated to return to play even in such friendly environs as here is concerning to me.

In any case, the coming year ought to be interesting photo wise.