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Occasionally we all have those moments when the brain is just not engaged. You look with intent, but do not see. You ponder issues at hand, but never find the mark. I was generally dissatisfied with the entire shoot and everything I produced throughout... I metered, checked, and rechecked... I couldn't figure out what was amiss. Last night I figured it out. I'm an idiot. Now that we've cleared that up, how is your morning? I am still in the midst of deciding what to do with my forthcoming (albeit brief) vacation. I really like Joe's suggestion of consulting the Mother's Milk during the decision making process, but that most likely wouldn't work out in the long run. My credit card company would love me, but EL would unleash the terrorous wrath of her kung fu upon me. I missed more SMS texts and phone calls this weekend. Generally speaking, when I'm at home on the weekend, I put my cell phone in my closet and don't look at it but once or twice a day... if at all. If you know me well enough to ask me out for a beer, then you know my home number or you know that there is a good chance that unless enough advance notice is given for me to get the message, I probably won't get it. I'm sure I miss out on a lot of great times that way. It's a shame. My coworker is out on vacation this week, so it's quiet in the office. Well, it's usually quiet in the office, but it is even quiet-er. No fax machine R2-D2 impersonations, no muffled phone calls from the adjacent office. Only the soft murmur of my laptop cooling fan and the occasional whoosh of passing traffic on the street in front of the building. I haven't purchased any photography related equipment in a long time. I was thinking this morning about the Singh-Ray circular polarizer/color intensifier glass filter and how curious that little piece of glass makes me. I use a Cokin P system largely out of cost/convenience... not so much for the quality. Singh-Ray filters are probably the best quality filters on the market and I've long wanted to replace my graduated ND filters with their Singh-Ray equivalents. Considering Cokin ND's are around twenty bucks and the Cokin polarizer is about fifty, the jump to $170 for ND's and about $340 for the polarizer I mentioned is a tough one. I certainly wouldn't need those for any of the stuff I've been shooting this year however, a trip to involving landscape shots would be greatly benefited. I wanted the Singh-Rays for my Switzerland trip last year, but couldn't get them in time even if I had the spare coin laying around. I miss being in the field. I miss framing the shot in my mind and setting up the exposure just so... making something to take away for years to come. It's my favorite flavor of photography. I'm sure of it.
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