This is a lazy photo. A clean example of an iconic car in a unique color in the literal Swiss Alps, taken on slide film with a Pentax 6x7 and the 105mm. The most difficult part of this whole situation was developing the slide film in my bathroom when I got home from this trip (which I am fairly proud of, honestly).
Don't get me wrong, I love the fact that the absurdity of my life has given me the ability to do things like shoot a green on green W124 on top of a mountain in Europe. But I've noticed a trend lately as the brain rot from social media at large has set in. I don't think about photos as much as I used to. I wave a camera loaded with some kind of interesting color film in the general direction of a cool old car, often with some sort of scenic backdrop. Magic internet points ensue. Endorphins are released. Brain gets a little more broken.
Anyway, hello! This is my first post on this website that for a while I thought was too difficult to use. I'm trying to sever the connection in my brain between what I actually consider a good photograph, and the number of magic internet points it collects on various other social media platforms. So here I am, giving this a shot in earnest.
A good friend of mine has started doing a post-a-day thing on here. That sort of triggered something in me, because for years I did the same thing with Instagram. Back when it was a chronological feed of shit I actually wanted to see, and I could interact with people into the same things as me. Now it's an algorithm-driven cesspool that obscures my friends posts and dishes out garbage with ads for horrible slot games in between every three posts. I made a conscious decision last month to stop posting on Instagram for a variety of reasons. Maybe permanently, maybe not. But it wasn't serving me in any positive way anymore. And Twitter was never great as a photography platform in general, let alone now with its, uh... problems.
So anyway, here we are. I guess it's kind of a fresh start. There are thousands of my favorite photos I've shared on Instagram over the years, and now I get to share them here anew. Some will be ones I'm proud of. Some will be garbage photos that have some meaning to me. Maybe I'll have another stupid wall of text to go with some of them. Maybe not. But what I really want, is to engage with my friends about photos again in some kind of useful way instead of continuing to engage with the platforms, that in all honesty, have kind of started ruining both cars and photography for me. And in addition, I want to be more deliberate in the photos I take. Less color. Less cars. More attention to detail and noticing the beauty of the rest of the world around me. Lets fucking go, I guess.
Cheers.
