Taco cart vendor, Salt Lake City
Only one more photo, he said. Then he started flipping tortillas. I kept shooting
While I am tapping my toes with anticipation for the move to the ranch, I’m pretending that I’ve already moved. I am trying to experience Salt Lake City as I will when I come visit for the occasional teaching gig or shopping trip. When getting street tacos on New Year’s Day will be a treat. I have lived here almost 19 years–I wonder how many new things I can try here in the few weeks before moving day.
Already on the list: a visit to the Leonardo, with some dozens of pals from Photowalking Utah. Join us on the 21st, won’t you?
Friendly reminder for the new year: update those blogs and webpages, Lightroom watermarks, and in-camera settings to 2012.
Free! (Charlottesville, VA)
Looking back at my productivity in 2011, or lack thereof as this selling my house-moving-building-temporary lodging transition sucked a huge amount of time and creative energy. With the house really underway, I am refocusing on I want to accomplish next as an artist and I’m not waiting for this year to drag out any longer.
One thing I am going to be free of in 2012 is the idea that I have to keep all the plates spinning at once. I made a list, GTD-style, of all my projects I might want to do, and all the next conceivable actions for each one. It’s an exciting and daunting list: at least 3 book-length photo series, some more writing, an apple orchard. Instead of trying to do them all at once, I am picking no more than 3 projects a week to work on. Next week, it might be 3 different ones.
It’s going to be interesting to see which ones I move along the furthest in the course of the year. Trying to do them all at once is crazy-making, so this is really about maximizing happiness of the process of making art, and indirectly productivity. I can juggle 3 balls at once–that’s plenty for me right now.
Adirondack chairs in a Buffalo, NY, public park
No one will be taking these without bolt cutters. I debated briefly whether to clone out the cable, but it stayed. Yes they’d be prettier without, but so would a lot of things that get anchored down.
Statuettes of St. Jude at San Xavier del Bac in Tucson, Arizona
If I lived in Tucson, I would photograph at San Xavier del Bac every chance I could.
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