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[Photo: “Newscoop,” by John E. Simpson. (Shared here under a Creative Commons License; for more information, see this page<\/a> at <\/em>RAMH.) I like several things about this photo, which I won’t detail here other than the one more or less insignificant detail I briefly mention in the post.]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the last several weeks, I’ve been nibbling away<\/a> at the fringes of the fast-food meal of what passes for my writing aspirations. In the meantime, a hungry little insect has been nibbling away at the me who’s been nibbling away at the fringes of etc. To wit: photography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The specific trigger here, or rather now<\/em>, is the daily Instagram series (black-and-white, with occasional splashes of color) I’ve been running since October 2017 — specifically, the approach of Day #1000 in the series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My Instagram account is here<\/a>; the hashtag I’ve used for the series is #everydaybandw<\/strong>… which, alas, is also in use by a other photographers. That’s “alas” because Instagram has never supplied a means to search\/filter by both<\/em> the account and<\/em> a hashtag. So the only practical way of seeing #everydaybandw<\/strong> photos specifically by me is to view my account page, and tap on individual pictures in the grid. (Note: some of those in that series are tinted<\/em> black-and-white — e.g. this<\/a> one — or contain “color splash” effects, like this<\/a> one.) You can also see a selection of my favorites from the series over at SmugMug<\/a>, with the caveat that it’s updated only occasionally. (If you want to see all<\/em> #everydaybandw<\/strong> photos, by anyone<\/em>, try this<\/a>. Most of those right now are mine, but not all of them.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, there’s nothing inherently special about reaching Magic Number 1000 (or any other — even Magic Number 1<\/em>). But I’m at a point now where I think I’ve got about all the satisfaction I can out of a series of “one black and white photo a day, of everyday scenes\/objects\/moments, which have been shot, post-processed, and posted with minimal effort.” At the time the series began, I desperately needed to spend some <\/em>time “outside my head,” as it were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n