(June 12) A decisive moment.

Today was an all around rough day—I didn't want to be at work (at all), I was feeling a bit depressed about my future, and felt trapped in circumstances beyond my control. I almost didn't have a photo for today; and while that'd be just fine, I'd probably regret not taking the time to make at least one worthy exposure.

I took a few pictures that were focused around line and perspective studies, but they really lacked any sort of story or message. After all, they were just lines and lacked any sort of meaning for me. I drove a bit further down and saw this sign...ordinary, yes. But it represented a bit of my day, being at a cross-roads and needing to make some decisions about things—one of those decisions being to keep plugging along and not to give up.

I really want to be in the photography field someday and out of the boring routine of web design—it's really lost its appeal. After all, I've been doing it for 12 years and I've become pretty bored with it these days. But would I become bored with photography someday, too? What's to keep me interested and active with it? Probably a series of decisions like this photo...I can turn left and give up, moving onto something else; or I can take a right turn and keep at it.

I think I'll make a right turn for now.

On a technical note: this photo really was quite ordinary looking to begin with. But with a significant amount of post production and tweaks in Adobe Lightroom, it turned out to be something quite a bit out of the ordinary. I was surprised how the arrows seemed to glow and the gloomy sky and silhouetted trees seemed to help depict the mood I've been in today.

(June 12) A decisive moment.

Today was an all around rough day—I didn't want to be at work (at all), I was feeling a bit depressed about my future, and felt trapped in circumstances beyond my control. I almost didn't have a photo for today; and while that'd be just fine, I'd probably regret not taking the time to make at least one worthy exposure.

I took a few pictures that were focused around line and perspective studies, but they really lacked any sort of story or message. After all, they were just lines and lacked any sort of meaning for me. I drove a bit further down and saw this sign...ordinary, yes. But it represented a bit of my day, being at a cross-roads and needing to make some decisions about things—one of those decisions being to keep plugging along and not to give up.

I really want to be in the photography field someday and out of the boring routine of web design—it's really lost its appeal. After all, I've been doing it for 12 years and I've become pretty bored with it these days. But would I become bored with photography someday, too? What's to keep me interested and active with it? Probably a series of decisions like this photo...I can turn left and give up, moving onto something else; or I can take a right turn and keep at it.

I think I'll make a right turn for now.

On a technical note: this photo really was quite ordinary looking to begin with. But with a significant amount of post production and tweaks in Adobe Lightroom, it turned out to be something quite a bit out of the ordinary. I was surprised how the arrows seemed to glow and the gloomy sky and silhouetted trees seemed to help depict the mood I've been in today.