And, to that end, I haven’t had time to work on anything personal. My Sundays off are more concerned with doing necessary things, like laundry and the like, rather than going to Tampa and taking photographs. I’m also dabbling more in music these days, since my guitar is right here - but, give it another month or two and I’ll be back into photography. That’s just how I work.
Anyway, the last time I worked on a personal project was, amazingly, twenty-five days ago. Right before I started working at NYNY, I read about this thing called SoFoBoMo, where the mission is to produce a book of thirty-five original photographs in thirty days or less. (Look it up - it's a very interesting premise.) It had me intrigued, so I read hurriedly, stored most of the info in my mind, and went to King Corona early the next day.
The amusing part of going to Corona before a photography project is this: writing out photography plans is like trying to fight a war via text message - it’s pointless to sit there and write out your plans when you can actually go out and do them. Still, I never learn - and here, as you can see, I attempted to plan my solo book, and then cursed myself for ordering a large-sized café con leche, as it quickly dawned on me that light was failing:
Gloomy Sunday - photographs by Shane Guy.
The idea was to document, quickly and cleanly, exactly how Tampa was on March 1st, 2009. It was overcast outside, and the air had a bite to it - I thought it’d be interesting to document Tampa in this kind of weather, not the balmy-sunshine-palm tree way. It’s Sunday. Downtown is abandoned. This is how it really is - not like a brochure, but still very beautiful in its own way. Hence, Gloomy Sunday.
I thought I would shoot about one-hundred or one-hundred-and-fifty frames, take them home, and pick and edit the best of them - and then pick thirty-five frames from that pile, which would be my book.
Gloomy Sunday.
However, I got downtown and it didn’t feel right. For one, there was a fierce wind blowing, and sand was getting all over the place. For two, I didn’t bring a jacket, and I was freezing. For three, I had no idea if the project start date had occurred, which cast a feeling of doubt over the project - that is, I could have busted my ass and shot a lot of frames, only for them to be theoretically worthless. So, I took some frames, was disappointed, and went home.
So, twenty-five days later, I finally found the time to transfer those frames, edit them, and post them. And yes, they are quite useless for the book project - since they were shot a full two months ahead of the start date. But now, they are a small collection of their own, which is still pretty cool. So there.
I have so many blog ideas - but no time to write them. One day, one day.
