From 2005, I ran a photoblog by the name of Writing With Light. It covered a period of experimentation through which I shifted from a Lomo LCA to a Pentax ME Super, and finally a Canon 350D.
Then I lost the love.
Not sure when it happened exactly, but somewhere in amongst the relentless tweaking of Photoshop filters and actions, the lust for faster lenses and sharper images, I lost sight of why I was taking pictures. So I stopped. Goodbye, photoblog.
Except, of course, that wasn’t the end. I kept shooting, on and off - mainly documentary shots for the London Tap Jam. Somehow, I convinced myself that I needed an upgrade and traded my 350D in for a 500D (more megapixels! moving pictures!), took some documentary shots and video for a poetry project in Chicago and slapped a web portfolio together.
But the passion wasn’t there.
Christmas 2009, two things happened that pulled me back. I got an iPhone (3G!), and a Yashica 124G. I’ve spent the early part of this year playing with the 2MP camera on the iPhone and while it’s been fun, over the past few months, the Yashica has overtaken it as my go-to tool for shooting. Sure, I’m more likely to have an iPhone in my pocket than a TLR, and I’m not giving up on “iphoneography” - particularly since there’s an iPhone 4 somewhere in my future. But the time has come to push this site a step forward.
As of today, For Then & Ever More is growing up. No more limits. Anything I shoot with will be fair game. That’s most likely to be the Yashica and the iPhone, but I burned through a range of cameras before settling into these, and it’d be cool to give a few of them the opportunity to shine at some point.
Welcome to my photoblog.
No more exclusive focus on the iPhone, and possibly a bit more writing in between shots. Hope you don’t mind too much…
