Hello Friend,

I’ve now done 30 weeks of these little blogs. And I’ve been pleased with how they are helping me get a better idea about my photography and maybe get a few others to think about their creative journeys as well. Though, during the past few weeks and months, my photo side has been put on the back burner as I see how this writing thing comes together. I’ve still been out photographing a lot; I just haven’t had the time and energy to look through and edit as I would like.

One of the reasons the writing has been consistent is I have scheduled the time to write. But I have not been as good about this on my photo side. (I do have an upcoming blog on scheduling and creativity. Stay tuned.) When I was taking about this with my wife, she suggested I could maybe alternate weeks on my blog: one week of writing and one week of photos. So, as I thought about it this week, I decided this might be a fun experiment for a bit.

This would help me find time to go through my images, and it would help me look at my photos slightly differently. One of the themes I hear a lot in the photo world is to be working on projects to help look beyond the “single pretty picture”. And on a few different podcasts and in articles I’ve read, I keep hearing about looking through my photos to find patterns, textures and common themes that I might not have noticed before. Since so much of the way I photograph and organize my website is by location, I thought this could be an interesting and helpful challenge for myself.

Anyway, for a while, I’m planning to alternate weeks of a writing blog and a photo blog. Even though I have spent part of this week writing about my change, this will be my first blog focused more towards photography. For the photo weeks, I am planning to post 6-12 images that I think work together in some way. I’ll have a little intro and then dive into the photos. And I’ll see where things go from there.

To round out June and Pride Month, I thought it would be fun to do a color spectrum of photos. When I did one of my shows at 4P Studios, the owner arranged my photos in a rainbow around the room. Since I was still new to landscape photography I hadn’t even notice I had edited and then given her a body of work that could be hung that way. So, below is a collection of work that I hope accomplishes the same thing. Thanks so much for your support and encouragement, and I hope this change will be fun and interesting for all of us.