Photography Is Personal To Me

I randomly selected an image to illustrate this post. As soon as I saw this photograph, instantlyI remember making it on Deal Island, Maryland. It's a photograph that I've always liked and when I saw this scene, I knew I had to make a photograph of it. Just as I was composing the photo, the deadrise oyster fishing boat motored by. Lucky, I guess, as it added a nice element to the image. The photo was made in December, 2012. (click to enlarge)Very seldom do I write anything personal in this blog. But the other day, I encountered a couple of photos that really tugged at my heart. Seeing those images flooded me with emotion. They were about something personal of which I had completely forgotten. Seeing those photos reminded me how important photography and photographs can be and have been to me.Throughout my lifetime I have traveled to hundreds and hundreds of places. Over the past five plus decades, I have made more than 300,000 photographs, first on film and later with digital cameras.…