That’s what an attention whore does, you know. Put stuff out there and hope people will say nice things about it.
The feedback has been pretty good, but I’ve noticed something.
A lot of the contributions remind me of stuff I shot in my 20s when I had a camera and lenses but no idea what to point them at. I must have shot a million frames of crap – fortunately I was buying my black and white film in bulk and processing it myself.
An awful lot of the contributions to JPG Magazine online are themes I thought were cool when I was in my 20s and didn’t know shit about life. Stuff like:
- Flowers
- Abandoned buildings
- Young people looking pensive and pretending to have profound thoughts
- Abandoned cars
- Cemeteries, especially statuary
- Alleys in cities
- Bare trees
- Still lifes
- Detail shots of cars, trucks, motorcycles, etc.
- Public restrooms
- People with tattoos and/or piercings
- Grizzled looking old people
- Homeless people
- Rusty objects or things in decay (youth has a fascination with decay and death)
With a few happy exceptions, I don’t think I started taking decent pictures until the late 1990s when I bought a Nikon N90S to keep up with Maria, who had also become a Nikon shooter. Maybe I’m still not taking good pictures, but I’m having a lot of fun. Much of the time, it feels like magic happens when I start shooting and the addition of HDR has added a whole new dimension of creative possibilities.
Most of the photos I like are of people and animals doing things. I don’t know why. They just appeal to me as moments frozen in time. I don’t pretend they’re art.
You can find my stuff at jpgmag.com under johnmflora.
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