A New Monday

Posted on December 15, 2008
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Some of you might have noticed that the “My Favorite Color” category on this site has recently been renamed, “Monday Morning Photo.”
It’s a little more self-explanatory, seeing as it is exactly that – a photo I post every Monday morning.

Since I started this Web site, my friend Lindsay has been kind enough to contribute some of her beautiful photography each week.
But starting the first Monday in January, I’ll be taking over because Lindsay is working on starting her own blog — and the second it launches, I’ll have the address posted nice and big on my site for everyone to visit and admire.
(I know this post just piled on a crap-load of pressure for her to get it done, so, World, say it with me, “Lindsay, there’s no pressure…but do it fast because we can’t wait to see it.”)

I’m not a photographer, but I have a lot of fun with my point-and-shoot (actually, I use the one I got The Boss while I look tirelessly, and with no avail, for my camera’s charger).

When I first started working as a reporter at a small hometown paper, part of my job was to be the photographer that followed myself on assignments.
At the time, it was totally tedious and drove me nuts, but I realized that it was actually really therapeutic.

Over the weekend I started to go through some of my old photo boxes and found pictures I snapped with an old Cannon in the mid-1990s. One of my favorite photos was one I had taken from near the top of the Eiffel Tower. There was a couple getting married in the gardens below, and from hundreds of feet away I snapped a picture of them. It’s a little blurry, and maybe not worthy of any photojournalistic accolades, but even as a kid, I had the right idea of which moments to capture.

The Boss bought me my first digital camera for my birthday a few years ago and I went crazy with it. I took pictures of everything I saw, and then put it away for a few months when I realized that I could only take so many pictures of the outdoors…and myself with the timer.
But when my cousins moved to our area with their three beautiful children two years ago, I got new subjects to shoot and my second wind.

I don’t know much about exposure times and shutter speed, (or Photoshop for that matter) but the photos I share with you each week are with the hope that your Monday morning will get off to a better start.