Do drop in on Southeastmain as it is and does what June says. I wake up to it almost every morning.

I’m pleased to see some “quotidian” work. Jer (husband) and I have a blog that centers around where we live and travels we have gone on and part of the goodness (in a basic sense) of that activity is that we must record the quotidian. I very much like going back over the record occasionally, just to re-taste the something of the bygone days.

We’re very disciplined about our postings — we take turns, we post every day, and we use the post mostly for visuals, so each of us has to be aware and thinking about our awareness of our daily lives. It makes an interesting difference.

Are all of these photos (except the first) from the “more complex and interesting” stage? Do you have a personal favorite among them?

I also got inspired by Birgit’s post and an earlier one by you where you describe photography as meditation. My goal is not so much to make photographs as to look more carefully when I take my daily walk. I’m interested in how the process of making photographs alters “normal” visual perception into something more “focused”, no pun intended.

It depends on the photographer and what they do. Years ago I assisted for a studio photographer who never took her camera on vacation. “Why would I do that? Photography is work.”

I tend to have fewer boundaries between personal and professional work than most people.

Doug

In terms of photographing practice, amateurs like myself run the gamut, and I imagine pros do also. Is it your impression that daily photographing is more widespread among pros, who depend on those chops for a living?