New photoset: "A winter walk through Uptown."
Yeah, I know, for now this personal-personal blog of mine continues to mostly rely on photo updates, now that I finally own my first-ever decent digital camera (a Nikon Coolpix S550) and have been shooting just a ton of shots around the city for the last several months. And hey, I guess that's not so bad, to just rely for a little while on mostly photo updates to this personal blog; I spent four years when younger, after all, primarily expressing myself through images instead of words, so I guess that's not such a bad thing to rely on again for a bit, while I go through an especially productive time in my professional writing life right now. (I'm managing to get four to five book reviews written per week these days, each of them a thousand words long, plus a new guest essay for the HarperCollins UK blog twice a month, plus am working behind the scenes a lot right now on the next couple of CCLaP's original books, coming out this March and April, as well as a virtual book tour for the center's first published author, coming later this month.)
Anyway, just wanted to let everyone know that I got a new photoset up at my Flickr account recently, a collection of random shots during a winter walk this week through the Uptown neighborhood here in Chicago where I live; they came out really nice, I thought, so wanted to let you know about them. Here's what I have to say about the set over at Flickr...
"Can I just mention again how flabbergasted I am by the richness of this camera's black-and-white mode? Maybe it's because I shot almost exclusively in black and white in college (for financial reasons, natch), which is why I think about it a lot more often than others; but the fact is that my little Coolpix just on any given day can naturally capture the kind of super-rich range of graytones I would've killed for most of the time in my old film-and-paper days in the '80s. The fact is that almost no 'digital darkroom' work was done at all on these images; that's a far cry from my old physical darkroom days, when extensive work would have to be done nearly every freaking time I walked in there."
Anyway, hopefully more personal updates coming here more regularly this winter; but for now, at least lots of new photo updates regularly. I hope you enjoy.
Anyway, just wanted to let everyone know that I got a new photoset up at my Flickr account recently, a collection of random shots during a winter walk this week through the Uptown neighborhood here in Chicago where I live; they came out really nice, I thought, so wanted to let you know about them. Here's what I have to say about the set over at Flickr...
"Can I just mention again how flabbergasted I am by the richness of this camera's black-and-white mode? Maybe it's because I shot almost exclusively in black and white in college (for financial reasons, natch), which is why I think about it a lot more often than others; but the fact is that my little Coolpix just on any given day can naturally capture the kind of super-rich range of graytones I would've killed for most of the time in my old film-and-paper days in the '80s. The fact is that almost no 'digital darkroom' work was done at all on these images; that's a far cry from my old physical darkroom days, when extensive work would have to be done nearly every freaking time I walked in there."
Anyway, hopefully more personal updates coming here more regularly this winter; but for now, at least lots of new photo updates regularly. I hope you enjoy.
