Velcro Strips Can Rig Almost Anything
Far is Now Near
Years ago I travelled relatively far to get my shots. I would pack up
the car and head out here or there for an all-day or half-day trip. I
was always after this and that, here and there. I must confess at
that time I was something of a “gotcha” photographer. In fact I can
graph my transition over time from far away to near home as an
ever-converging spiral ending right at my home or very close to it.
It would be wrong (and a cheap shot) to say that it is just because I
am getting older. That plays a part but not a great one. My
enthusiasm would get me “far” as I had a mind to.
The way I explain it to myself is that my eye for beauty has
developed over the years. Where before I had all kinds of
expectations and demands about what I wanted to shoot, what was