I spent a few hours at the 3rd avenue street fair. I actually shot three rolls which is the most I've done for one location. All M3. I guess I'm always surprised by what I find at these events. I really only saw one other "pro" photographer there. Ladened down with two big zoom dslrs. I just felt so comfortable with the camera. I put an ND filter on (my trade secret) because I really do like to shoot at about f5.6 if I can and I don't like using more than one film type.
Speaking of Tri-X, I finally spent time printing some of the recent shots. Three very good prints. Funny thing: one handheld of the Crucified Christ at the Met - just very dark and mystical. And a few shots done on the tripod at night.
I had a thrill when I saw the 8 x 12's. Even did one 11 x 14 which held up well. Pretty productive day.
I wanted to write something about today being 9/11. In fact, I wrote two posts and then saved them as draft. I could feel myself falling into the chasm of red-state blue-state opinions. And the media is filled with that spitting head syndrome. Does anyone think their mind can be changed by some photographer's opinion? I doubt it. Do you think my mind could be swayed by argument. Nope.
Some states believe the country is going to hell in a red handbasket. The blue states think the handbasket is blue. The independents borrow from each handbasket. Locked in battle to the death. So I think I've only said that the country is polarized and everyone knows that. Now if I can keep my mouth shut about New Orleans disaster, The Supreme Court hearings; the war in Iraq; the use of SUVs; Homeland Security et. al.
Fair and balanced from now on. That's my motto. What does it mean? It means what I say it means - no more - no less.
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The Red State-Blue State things is bunk. It started simply as an artifact of displaying how the electoral college vote went some years ago and then it was blown up into a paradigm by lazy reporters and columnists.
The majority of people,
I'll bet something like 60%, are clustered around the political center - people leaning to one side still would find a lot to agree on with people on the other side. Another 10-15% on either side form each main party's "base" and have stronger opinions. But then there is a very small segment on each side that sometimes captures their respective party and drives the agenda. This happened in the early 90's with the Republicans, but lately it's the far Left that has driven the agenda of my party, the Democrats... MoveOn.org, George Soros, ACT, NARAL, Michael Moore, Medea Benjamin, "Starhawk"... etc, etc. The ironic thing is that this small group raised and spent about $150 million last election (mostly from huge-money donors) and managed to do exactly nothing. They never realized that all they were doing was preaching to the converted, not engaging new, :"unconverted" voters.
Most of us are purple.
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