Because I can
“why did you choose these pictures for your website. I like all of your other photos, but anyone can tell that these pictures are out of focus and blurry”
I have to say thank you first and foremost for liking all of my photos but 2. In actuality, only ONE was out of focus. The second was taken through a fine mesh screen, hence the blurriness. But that’s being nitpicky. So let me elaborate on what and why I choose to post here on my site.
I choose to put any photograph I take on my website for mainly one reason. Because I can. This photography blog is by description, a companion to my personal blog. Sometimes I have really profound entries, sometimes I just have complete nonsense. Here on Picturing Reality, with the weekly photo meme’s, I have really great photographs, and sometimes I just have photographs that are to show something that happened in my daily life.
The 2 photographs in question are of the cardinal in the post Backyard Nature. Yes, I know they’re not the greatest, but they came with the excitement of purchasing my first home. I haven’t had “nature” in my backyard for 4 years. I was thrilled that I could show people that OMG i have birdies in my yard, and I can get closeups of them. Guess what, I have about 20 more photographs of backyard nature to post. Some are good, some are total crap. But I’m gonna post them, because I can.
Not every photographer out there has “omg perfection!” photographs, by far I have very few that can come close to being just “really good”. Normally I do strive to post the best that I can take on my website, but daily life isn’t perfect. Sometimes, it’s blurry and out of focus and you just have to work with what you got.
March 30th, 2005 at 8:05 pm
Ummmm can I just say…. RUDE MUCH? Personally I squee’d with delight over those photos when you showed them to me. And you can tell that at least one of them was taken through a screen. Constructive criticism is one thing. Rudeness is another.