I am sure I am not the only artist who goes through phases of despair only to be followed by the highs of inspiration. Of course to be followed by a middling, “Okay, let’s see if this is possible”, realism. I do have a sort of idea, sense, inkling for a new series to possibly be FOS 6 sometime next year. It has something to do with last things, that feeling in the air right now of some sort of ending  possibly leading to dark(er) times. Not sure yet.

Usually what happens I get a few images which gives me an idea, a possible path and then I go out and try to make new images headlong into the wind. Unfortunately we are in the middle of a heatwave and there is no wind to go head long into and if  there were it would surely shrivel me up. So I decided to do the next best thing. I went searching for images on my hard drives. All photographers have far more images than they will ever show. A lot are truly terrible and actually should be deleted, never to see light of day, but some just have not fit in anywhere. My hard drives have a “working” folder and a “raw” folder. In the working directory is where I develop files into tiffs for possible use in a series. The working folder always has a bunch of subdirectories of possible image series. The raw files are just dumps of all images from the SD cards – good and bad.

It’s the working folder that I went mining for possible images to include in this new series of images. I found a few. It helped  in sort of giving shape to what I am intending. To clarify I looked through the working directories of about 5 years worth of tiff images – 5TB of stuff and came up with less than a dozen. But at least it got me thinking.