New Year New Insights

Haven't been here in what seems to be forever. Busy here and busier there. But the camera is always with me....

Brought into the Olympus digital system about two years ago - tis strange since in the past century I had a film Olympus camera: the ever-popular OM1 then later the OM2. It didn't last long though, before I swapped those out for a different camera. I cannot count on both hands and feet the numerous film cameras I've had, and now in this new digital era the story is the same: I cannot count on both hands nor feet the digital cameras I've gone though!

I currently have two EOS R5s with a few RF lens, and will be swapping those out for a single Sony A7c, replacing the Sony camera I picked up over a decade ago while in San Francisco, and now that A6000 is in Andalucia with my grandson Dylan. Hoping he'll enjoy it as much as I did!

The R5s were just too heavy to carry and I am NOT getting any younger! I need lighter and just as robust and capable, and liked the way it handled and the great sharp images it gave me!

It's raining in western New York (WNY) as I type. My leased Hybrid Kia Niro is now just a wee bit over a year and a half into a three-year lease, BUT if I could trade it in for an EV or another hybrid with a better range and eMPG at a price NOT in the clouds, I'd do it in a heartbeat. 

Other news: today closed my only active site featuring my imagery for sale, and now have only this blog and a portfolio online now. I just had waaay too many websites and it's difficult to stay on top of everything. I do NOT know how others do it all, and are successful on their virtual platforms. I ditched facebook a few years ago, this time permanently. I was back on twitland for a few months, but I just closed that just minutes ago also. 

Now I'll have more time to "image-archive" which is changing also: now instead of archiving, I will just simply delete all my images.

I am not a famous well-known photographer and I don't didn't ever get a lot of visitors to my many image sites. You know what happens when one isn't getting the foot traffic to a physical store, and virtually it must be the same. I see no sense in populating a site with my imagery if few will even take the time to see my imagery let alone purchase one. It's a huge world out there, and with more people thinking they are master photographers which I never have been, to compete with....  well. It was just a matter of time that I closed up my shop. No one will miss my imagery. No one will miss me!

Hoping everyone is staying as possible. The wife and I still wear our masks at the ready - around our necks -while outdoors to wear so we try to keep ourselves and others as safe and healthy as possible.