Wet,red and yellow

It has been a little over a month since I returned from my long stay in Scotland. During that time I have gotten much more involved with photography. Discovering flickr.com has to be the main reason. I made my living as a photojournalist a long time ago but my work with a camera had fallen through the years to the level of just taking 'pretty kid' or 'hello mom' or 'we were there' shots. I would still see the other kind of shots but there was no gallery or any way to share them so what was the point. Flickr and digital photography has changed all that. In the first month of my serious use of flickr.com I have gotten a thousand views of about one hundred pictures. That would be a satisfying turnout at a gallery, at least in this part of the world. A link to the flickr site is posted in the sidebar.
During the month I thought about this blog and what, if anything I would like it to become. As you see all over the web, so much of this kind of stuff turns into some form of ego-casting and I would like to refrain from that as much as I can. Writing to a blog like this exposes many weaknesses; patterns of thought, inability to spell...lol...weaknesses in grammar, and has to result in some self promotion, even if it is only that implicit in the form. Cain't make no cakes without breaking a few eggs though.
The positive side of daily blogging for me lies in necessarily creating the discipline to write on a daily basis and to offer, in whatever limited form, the result to the world. My hope would be that a carryover from daily blogging would result in more writing on the fictional projects that I have at hand, both in poetry and fiction. Having MSWord cuts down considerably on the spelling and grammatical errors to which I am prone.

Whether or not I can keep from talking about politics remains to be seen. I am not bashful about politics, but I don’t like much about either side of U.S. national and international politics and I can usually anger both Democrats and Republicans within a couple of short sentences and I am finding that at this age, losing friends over such nonsense does not make me feel better.

I don’t expect many readers and I am not going to feel like I have to try to increase readership. If some find it interesting, that is good. I hope to post daily, including a photograph. It may be that Blogger can’t handle that many photographs and I will have to cut back, but we can deal with that later. I may try to make a separate blog on digital photography and digital moviemaking at a later time.