In my previous post I recounted some of my blogging history, but neglected to mention my photo blog. After buying a digital camera the summer before last, I started posting photos in galleries (divided into topics like political protest, wandering around town, my trip to Japan, etc.). After a few months I set up my own photoblog to highlight specific individual photos, usually to match themes suggested by several photo-of-the-week sites.
A lot of the photos have some political relevance (protesters and police at this summer’s Democratic and Republican conventions, for example, and at other Boston and New York protests), but most are nonpolitical — street scenes, landscapes, flowers, patterns. The photographer friend who took the photo of me at the top of this page tells me I put way too many photos in my galleries — instead of the best, I go overboard trying to give a sense of an event or location. She’s probably right — certainly she’s right on artistic grounds– and someday maybe I’ll reorganize the galleries more selectively.
In the meantime, I’m happy to just shoot things that interest me, though I’d like to find time to boost my limited technical skills. For really gorgeous work by another critical psychologist, see David Nightingale’s site.
Thanks Dennis