Yes, when the photographs you take stop interesting you is like when your girlfriend stop doing it.
Yeah, maybe it’ll start doing it again, but just doesn’t do it right now.
And things happen in the meanwhile, … if it does it again.
I developed my last roll of film about one month ago. I didn’t have a look to those frames.
Just put them in the archive leave and there they are till today.
It happened to me some other times of course.
For example I stopped taking photographs for about a couple of years and painted more than a hundred oil paintings instead.
One of them is called This is not a Picasso, because I liked Magritte time ago.
Here you have it
I called it first This is not a pipe, but I recently hanged it in my new house and changed its title.
I was in love with Magritte work for a long while.
But at the end I thought he was too cerebral, too for the mind instead of for the eyes.
I like surrealism in some manner, … to express what is beyond the obvious, the touchable.
But Magritte stopped thrilling me one day, the same your girlfriend can.
Love is a difficult subject, of course…
I was thinking of start painting again, but I won’t do it.
I showed one of my gum prints to a girl friend of mine the other day and she asked me like surprised if it was pictorialism.
100%, I replied.
Yes, I keep on doing alternative photography.
But that’s another stuff.
Let’s get back to my last roll of film.
Well, the point is I’m been having another things in mind and between hands for a long while in the last times.
And that can be a good excuse to think that I was not taking photos or interesting in them because I was busy in some other things.
And it is true. But also it isn’t.
A bit like photographs: they are and aren’t true at the same time.
Ok. The roll
But first, yes, I eventually had this kind of photography lack some other time.
And I returned and kept on taking photographs.
As told in marriages for the good and for the bad.
It’s also a while ago that posts and notes in here don’t call my attention really.
Sorry for that. There are good reasons for it to me though.
Perhaps it’ll come back again…
Let’s go with the roll:
Leica M7 with Leitz Wetzlar Elmar 2.8 50mm
Rollei Superpan 200
Happy weekend
Thanks, George. Great images and I love your painting.
Some of your posts I like for the photographs, and other posts I like for the words. Here I like them both. They remind me of my own in-between times and to remain hopeful.