This shot of the moon is what you would see if you stood in my driveway for one-third of a second.
I’m going through my portfolio right now for a little presentation at the Illinois Press Foundation/ Eastern Illinois University high school journalism workshop down in Charleston that I’ve helped at for the past few years. Looking through my photos got me thinking.
It’s bizarre to think about how many hours I spent shooting the photographs for several years worth of assignments and editing down everything I shot that day to a few images that help show people what happened in front of my lens at that moment.
Add up the time spent getting the information to add to the cutline so the photos become more than just something to look at, but a way to record history…
Throw in countless nights narrowing hundreds of thousands into just a few frames in a portfolio for jobs or contests or presentations like the one I’ll be giving in about eight hours.
Thinking about all of that made me realize that I’ve spent days, weeks, maybe even months of my life on this portfolio… but according to the technical data in my photos my portfolio equals just about one-third of a second.
That blows my mind.
