“…you don’t have to travel across the globe to experience new things. Your own backyard is the farthest place away to someone else on the other side of the world.” ~Joey L – Photographer
I’m reiterating this again…
Yes, it’s been awhile since I posted last – As David Hobby has said:
I don’t want to be a full time blogger who also does photography…
But over a year since the last posting?
Yeah, I know…
“…you don’t have to travel across the globe to experience new things. Your own backyard is the farthest place away to someone else on the other side of the world.” ~Joey L – Photographer
As a self trained photojournalist and editorial photographer, I’ve been privy to many of my colleagues lamenting/believing that if they could just photograph/document someplace else, they would have a better understanding of the world and a better portfolio…
I don’t fully agree with that belief.
Now that 2016 is in full gear, I’ve begun to think how to rebrand/rebuild what I’ve been doing professionally for over 30 years. As Joel Grimes put it, if you’re not producing self generated work at least once a week, you run the risk of falling into obscurity. So I’m pushing myself into areas photographically that I have not felt very comfortable with.
But I realize it’s necessary to grow even at this stage of my career in a profession I have loved in 1977 when I received my first camera.
I initially started LaneCounty360 as a sideline project but it has languished off and on since it’s launch back in 2011. I recently realized that the site is more than just a project for me. It provides a purpose for creating unique images of people, places and things that are a part of the community. So I feel it’s time to relaunch and I will do my best in posting to this online visual journal about all things Lane County, Oregon on a regular basis.
Her’s the original announcement from four years ago:
It was announced today that the buyout of National Geographic by 21st Century Fox earlier this year has resulted in almost 200 staffers being let go.
The very idea of what photojournalist and colleague Patrick Downs stated as “They’re (21st Century Fox) gonna mess up the jewel in the NGS crown” is a severe understatement.
And yet, the very technology that resulted in the demise of the publication as it was known in the past can very well become an asset.Continue reading