2024.12.08
Musing on the criteria I want to use for photo curation, the balance of "this is a visually interesting photo" vs "this person means a lot to me" (and sometimes estrangement or having drifted apart complicates the choice) There is also my kind of weird urge to focus on old flings as a kind of cheap but reassuring nostalgia.
Also - do I want to go back to the mixed frames (which I thought forgave any unevenness in hanging) or should I go for "all square crops, same frame" or split the difference...
But also, I want to get better at making new photos. Firefox's default page brought me this article on being a better photo subject - it's almost stunning how pedestrian most older Westerners become when posing for a photo! Like the simplest variations - tilting a head, closing eyes, putting a hand on a hip, whatever - can just give an emotional energy beyond "hey look, I was here at this time", or other facile cliches like the fingers-in-V peace sign or heart-with-hands.
(It reminded me of how I've become obsessed with the first ten seconds of the intro to the anime Dan Da Dan - I love how the characters all strike a playful portrait pose, and am trying to figure out how to replicate a parallel effect elsewhere.)
Just read an old Retrogamer magazine with an interview with Betty Ryan - she was the first woman coder at GCC, which was the company that was Atari's secret weapon in the early 80s.
Damn, Giants really working vs the Pats for that draft pick