a couple years later...

read a thought-provoking blog today, Paul Romaniuk's The Bertie Project, about photography in the digital age. i felt compelled to respond to his blog, and my response led me back to this blog, created several years ago and promptly forgotten. since i have no idea how to delete posts, thought i'd post a quick update...

--have changed the title of the blog.

--have no expectations that anyone will ever read this.

--love the fact that i'm returning to this blog just as everyone is predicting the death of blogs.

--cannot figure out whether all this internet stuff is beneficial or just dust in the wind.

--have created a web site. have created a facebook profile and page.

--no twitter. no google+. just a name on linked-in.

--too many passwords for this tired brain.

--no pinterest... thank god.

--it's overwhelming.

--how do i simplify?

--do i even want to indulge?

where i belong is behind the camera, or in the darkroom. not sitting in front of a computer wasting time and talking to the vast empty void of cyberspace.

so i remain totally confused and conflicted.

--do i go with my private journals or the potentially not-so-private blog?

--do i continue to create and manage my cyber identity, or just try to be content with my actual self in the flesh and blood world?

it's hard enough being me. do i really want to be a cyber me?

i'll get back to you in a couple years. i'm heading out now to crouch behind a few trees and take some photographs.

This is harder than it looks, Part II

here, to the best of my recollection, is what should have appeared above...

"i thought this blogging stuff was going to be a snap...easy as pie. just type my thoughts and fire them off into the vast, overpopulated, hyper-chattering blogosphere, where they can wander, lost and lonely, for all eternity.

i am now on my fourth draft (make that the fifth) of my first blog. say what????

so, to put myself out of my misery, i think i'll just preview (this is where i went wrong) and then publish this post, hoping that it's like jumping off a high board...terrifying the first time you do it, but, once you hit the water, something you want to do over and over again until your lips turn blue.

before i take the plunge and push those dreaded computer keys (you can see above where that got me) let me just say that I LOVE PHOTOGRAPHY!!! i love how it takes me OUT OF MY MIND (hence the title of this blog). and i want to share my thoughts on all things photographic...and artistic...and poetic...and aesthetic...with myself (does that make sense?) and my friends and my followers (who, at this point in my blogging career, amount to me, myself and you know who).

so, here goes....this may be my first and last post. or, today a blogger may be born.

the suspense is killing me."

that, in a nutshell, is what should have appeared above...my first post, now relegated to my second. how apropos...confirming all my latent computer/blogging fears. maybe it's for the best. i have now successfully written my second post, thereby guaranteeing that i will not be a one hit wonder.

This is harder than it looks!