I was so excited and happy taking these shots.
marina series
Then i posted them and remembered that maybe a couple of people might find them interesting? good? worthwhile? And it just sucked... Whatever this place called steemit is i have no clue really. How do you feel when your best work is just ignored... it's not correct without a charming and cordial endless blog... ok. So there's my blog. Is it going to make me friends. Heck no. My depression and feelings of hopelessness are not attractive. Not at all.
"pull yourself up by your bootstraps!" "be a man and quit complaining" "it could be worse" ...
I wish i was born in an earlier era. Long before computers. When there was open space and room to breathe. before a single apt cost more than $1500. I probably would be dead by now. Which might not be a bad thing.
Hi Ross,
Thanks for sharing your photos...The text, well in all honesty, made me a bit depressed. I get it though, the feeling that your work, work that you are proud of, is largely ignored. It happens to some very excellent content creators, just like it does in real life too I guess.
I see you have been around since December 2017, and are still posting despite your obvious negative feelings about steem which I think is quite admirable. I have come across you before, even thrown you a vote or two I believe. Your photos are quite nice and I can't really say why people may not be engaging with you much at all...
...What I can say is that I believe people want to follow and engage with people they like and feel they know...To that end I make a lot of comments; You know, read someone's post, make some remarks, engage a little, like am doing here with you for instance. Those who respond, engage with me a little in return, and continue to do so are those I follow and support in turn. It's a simple formula and one that has increased my enjoyment, and driven my brand, such as it is, a little better.
I'm not here to hand you a silver bullet, to motivate and encourage you to stay around...That's yours to do...However I would like to say that there are some good people, many who would certainly engage with you and your work, if only you seek them out. Yes, it takes work, effort, however nothing worth doing has ever been easy right?
I'll end with the phrase I end all my posts with...It's a life ethos that I follow diligently. Thanks for sharing your photos and I hope you hang around and find some reward through engagement. (I don't mean financial reward either.)
Design and create your ideal life, don't live it by default.
P.s. I'm almost 50 and am an analogue dude...I agree with your last comment.
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I wish you could give a class on how to take photos like these!
Very nice!
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I could show you in person fairly easily. To write it out? That's just too much for me.
First key is a camera with a zoom lens and manual focus. Put things like railings right in front of the camera and then focus on things far away. It sounds hard but its not :)
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Thank you very much! Your explanation is very clear! It sounds okay to me! I think I can follow this easily! But I have to find a SLR camera first! My old one doesn’t work any more!
Cheers.
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I totally get you. Sometimes I post something and it takes off when I least expect it as I don't think it's my best work. Sometimes my favourite photos don't get as much response. People's tastes are very subjective.
I love your photos and as I've said before you inspire me to look at the unusual. I'm not in it for the money but it is always welcome and things are improving.
I'm not great either with having to write a blog but I've realised it's better to show who you are. It is worth the effort. It doesn't have to be of a professional standard. I just ramble on with any old shit! 😊
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Oh shit... I'm a miserable complainer. I just and hour writing one reply with two fingers.
I miss just talking in an art gallery or a museum or a coffee shop. Rambling on is so much easier without a freaking keyboard.
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I've got better talking to people as I've got older but I think I will always be an introvert.
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I'm pretty good at talking to people face to face. I found out i'm really good with talking to strangers lol. Maybe because they haven't got a whole bunch of ideas about me yet. And i usually never see them again. If only blogging wasn't a thing. I haven't been able to put together just exactly how much it sucks and how it reduces everything to this bizarre lowest denominator. Ugghhhh.
I also admire people who are good at it. I will have to concede it's become an artform in itself. It's utterly disposible and worthless within less than 48 hours. So i guess i would rather have a book or a photo or a garden or...
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Oops i forgot i'm living in the fantasy that i'm an artist and that what i have done is somehow worthwhile. Sorry for that arrogance.
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It really isn't arrogance!
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First of all Ross, I wish I could have taken that first photo. They're all good, but there's something about that ethereal gray stripe in the first one that I really like. Some kind of symmetry to the photo that really appeals to me.
Secondly, I'm with you on Steemit. Most days I can only find the motivation to make one post. I can't tell you how many times I post to a single challenge and sit back waiting, certain my image will be tomorrow's thumbnail, and then not even getting a mention. Hint: it's happened a lot lately. And the Steem the posts earn? Depressing.
Thirdly, my wife and I always say that we're glad we're as old as we are, and wish we were older. The other day we were debating the best decade to have been born into, but: 30's? The Great Depression, 40's? WWII. We really find ourselves more and more out of synch with the world today, or at least US culture. The sheer pace of change and the ridiculousness of much of it, reminds me of the end of a fireworks show, when everything and anything is going off in the sky...right before it all fades to black, and smoke.
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Yes, The first one! Haha, I like that one a lot. I sat down in front of the railings at the marina. It's very close to the camera lens and i manually focused on the water in the background. There is a piling there too. The railing itself mostly disappeared and the piling is... haha. Now i'm getting confused. It's same piling in the second shot. The manual focus and moving between the railings made it totally different. Oh boy is that confusing! Now you see why i dread writing about my shots.
I take so many photos... i love taking them and even editing to a point. I am not sure why i want to post them all haha. I guess it's a response to the cliche of the artist who's closet, under the bed and garage are full of art that no one sees. I must have made a choice a long time ago to not be be that person. And at the same time i have filled every space with art... and much of it has never been seen. Haha. So there's the good thing about the internet. AND also the trap. I don't do shows in "buildings" anymore. Hmmmm, i'm realizing just now that i've actually retreated to the seeming ease of posting online. It was harder to put everything up on a wall somewhere. Wait. That's not really true. It was so much more rewarding. Having an opening! I loved those! Selling some work and talking to people. Online i come across as a super-duper miserable grouch. And it's true when i have to type with two fingers and and just send it off to nowhere. Things we could talk about in minutes and have an actual exchange. It takes me half an hour just to write a comment this long and i barely touch on anything.
I was fantasizing about the guys who came back from WW 2 and lived along the coast of California and business was booming and there was so much open space. Of course they filled it all in with shit to make their millions... The whole living in an another era is such an endless complex fantasy. Woody Allen made that Paris movie about it right? I was freaking out when Owen Wilson started meeting Hemingway and Dali and Picasso and all the artists. Then the dream girl wants to go even further back! It's endless. Hmmm
I wonder too about the thousands of years of the coastal natives. That would be quite something to live in California like them. To wake up in the morning in an absolutely unspoiled land. Neil Young has been writing songs about this for a long time. Now i've completely lost my this thread looking for some songs on youtube
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Have you ever looked into a compromise between a show in a building and posting online? Something like a Farmer's Market, Maker's Mart, or Craft/Art Fair? There must be something around the Harbor on weekends. You would have the satisfaction of seeing people react to your art and the ability to talk one-on-one in real time, and maybe even make a little extra cash.
BTW, "Midnight in Paris" is a perfect reference for that feeling we were talking about.
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