This blog was elsewhere to begin with, but I think I'd like to move it to blogger.com. It just seems like a nicer place to be. I'm going to try to repost everything i'd posted earlier...
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Ok then, here we go.
I'm not sure I like the idea of a blog and this page may disappear by the end of the day...the week, whenever. I'm going to try and keep it crib free, but given I'm a garduate student that's a bit quixotic?
Also I'm going to try and keep it centred on photography... lets see how that goes. A cursory look at my site indicates that I'm a wildlife photographer...whatever that quantity is, I shoot critters, and vegetation. I find people interesting, but harder.
But now I'm beginning to find the whole business of shooting wildlife complicated too. Theres so many categories...
Wildlife to most means wilderbeest in africa, wilddogs at a hunt somewhere...you know 'large charismatic animals' or birds...or if you're nick nichols, habitats and crits that are rare and threatened, on the edge. the journalistic /conservation angle thats a newer angle to the business. Or the folks who look at little creatures, Moffet, etc the macro guys...then theres dalton who does the extreme action stuff even if its on little things like butterflies....
the point being that everyones got what is usually a fixed style, and even when they try something its more like an excursion, less a change of direction...and well i begin to find that boring...i think i've narrowed my obsessions sufficiently when i've said wildlife photography. its harder to go further down that path...
the other things that somewhere along the line I'm still a biologist/ecologist. I dont see alive things in any way other than fitting together in some way. and yet a lot of people i've mentioned have pushed the envelope based on the very narrowness of their obsession...
sometimes this whole business makes it hard to edit, to ask if a picture i've taken is any good. good for whom? for me? and then why? where does it fit? whats it worth in the larger body of work it's part of? there a few hundred photographers in bangalore alone...some (a good number) make technically sound pictures, some, interesting pictures...why should i be adding to this corpus at all?
