Ever get hung up?

You know the feeling….you’re fixated on one thing, can’t see the whole scene,
you feel confused and stunted. Disconnected.

This occasionally happens to me when I’m shooting. Circumstances and juju
climb on top of me and I can’t get out from under. Call it: A Bad Day. Every-
one has them. Problem is, in my line of work failure is not an option.

There are those shoots where, after it’s all over and I’m driving home, I can’t
stop thinking about what else I could have done. I wonder why things got so
gummed up.

Often, in these cases, it’s just me being too hard on me. The client is pretty
much satisfied but I feel like I’ve somehow failed.

Fortunately I’ve been shooting long enough to have a bag of tricks I can fall
back on. When I’m feeling hung up I reach into that bag and pull something
out. It doesn’t really satisfy me but, hey, I’m never satisfied.

The reason I bring all this up is because I got hung up trying to figure out
what to write about today. Its been a slow week, shooting-wise. I’ve been
chained to my computer doing post production on pix that I can’t show you
here and now. (The hi-light of my week was one day where I was dealing
with people in 5 different time zones: Vancouver, Toronto, London, Zurich
and Sydney).

So, being hung up, I rooted thru my archives and came across this image:

I shot it in Ohio, 2005. Did a scan and some post production on it and then
just kinda forgot about it. It didn’t make the final edit from my Ohio trip and
until today (when I was desperate) I’ve never really considered it again.

Now that I look at it, though, I’m pretty much fixated on it.

I tried to find some other shots that I might use to flesh out this post. But,
in the end, I got hung up on this shot. I wonder if that’s because, to me,
this image, all by itself, seems to sum up what’s going on down in the U.S.A.
right now? You know…..the whole end-of-empire scenario that seems to be
unfolding right before our eyes.

MASHKULTURE

Couple of weeks ago (or something) the hits to my blog and web site went
way up. Turns out mashKULTURE featured me on their web site.

Kinda weird since mashKULTURE’s mostly about about kool caps and kicks and
shit, with the occasional art thing thrown in. I’ll take it though since their site’s
pretty international….for instance, here’s the thing in Hungarian:

To check out mashKULTURE (in English) go here.