April 30, 2007: A House in Prospect Heights
It's harder to keep up a photoblog than a regular blog. The reason is simple: to keep a text-blog filled with fresh content, all you have to do is come up with new ideas and type them out. Sure-- that may be difficult, but at least it can be done from home. Keeping up a good photoblog requires a constant stream of fresh and interesting imagery-- and that's not easy to fake. The same streets and sights quickly become old. You've got to keep moving on. In short, you've got to actually go out and live. And even if you do that, there's a pretty good chance someone else has already gotten there before you and taken the same shot. So you've got to keep on, despite that-- to keep on shooting, even though you know you're just endlessly duplicating a reality that already exists, has already been shot, and is completely indifferent to your interest. So that's hard.
Just beautiful photo! Sure, I understand, but I think you always have a new and amazing seeing (novo e incrÃvel olhar) to the reality!
But your shot will never be exactly the same as the next person's. The light will be different, the graffiti may have changed, the sky may be blue instead of gray and cloudy -- there are any number of variables that make your pic your own.
Plus, you're documenting your subject at a certain point in time -- if someone else takes a similar shot two weeks later, that shows how the subject has changed in the interim. I think of this when I take street art pics that a dozen people seem to have taken before me. At least I can show how the work looked on the day I was there, and by comparing it to the other photos, people can see how it changed (or not) over time.
It is true, though, that every scene changes every day. It's like that movie 'Smoke', with Harvey Keitel. He takes a photo of the exact same street corner every day for years, and every day it's different.
I hear ya, though. Keeping up a photo blog is hard work. I hate to repeat myself, so I'm out there shooting every day...
yeah, i agree with all of the previous commenters. and as an example of what you're talking about, here's my shot of the same house:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tracy_collins/426696752/
whoa, my hood! i live a few buildings to the right in dahlia's old apartment. the lighting is just great in this shot.