I'm a little more than half way in my first PAD year. More than a few times, I've felt really out of my element. For a guy who's never been particularly artistic or creative, the talent and creativity of so many pbase members in general and PADers in particular can, sometimes, be dispiriting. There's been more than one time I've felt completely out of inspiration and energy for anything photographic. But all of this has been more than compensated by the incredible friendliness, encouragement, cooperation, and humor of PADers.
So, I look forward to another year (or at least the months to my PAD 1 anniversary) of obsessive photography, inspiration, humor, voyeurism (heh, heh), friendship, and general PAD craziness. On the other hand, maybe I'll take up plumbing.
Happy New Year.
PS - Crop; tonal adjustments (contrast, levels); removal of tattoos, knife fight scars, crossed eyes, and other facial deformaties (through cloning, dodging/burning, massive gaussian blurring, and general dillusion, and mytochondrial DNA); convert to monotone (with channel mixer action); framing and signing.
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