Two photos I shot were just purchased by a travel book about unusual events around the United States. They are photos I took at a Bastille Day waiter race. What’s a waiter race? Well, it’s pretty much exactly what it sounds like. Waiters put a couple of things on a service tray – usually glasses of liquid – and run a course trying not to spill. Of course, Bastille Day, the day commemorating the storming of the Bastille and the uprising of a modern nation, makes perfect sense as a natural place to hold these. Cause, you know, revolutionaries love really fast service.
Now, those of you who know me personally know my absolute love of the absurd. Strange events, odd happenings, unique places? Count me in! Therefore, to have pictures bought by a book about just such things feels like a personal moral victory about indulging my time in seeking out such things.
To be quite frank…I don’t love the pictures. They were more of snaps I took on auto settings, rather than actual thought through photos.
This totals 7 pics that have now been bought for everything from travel guides, to art institutes, to books. Woo-hoo! Now, not that I’m looking to start shooting professionally, but it’s something that I’ve come to really enjoy, that I haven’t been doing enough of. To be honest, having been a filmmaker for as long as I have, it doesn’t shock me that photography is something that comes fairly naturally to me…I see the world in pictures…I always have. BUT…the fact that other people like them? That, I’m pleasantly surprised by. Hell, I’m always pleasantly surprised when people like films I’ve done. I suppose I need to work on my ego and hubris. Especially if I want to move up in the industry.
I didn’t shoot a lot last year, in fact there are things I did that I didn’t take a single shot of. Mackinac Island – not a single picture. Frankenmuth – the first time I went there, not a single one. Toronto – yup, again, zero pictures. I’m not even sure if I shot anything of Napa or Phoenix when I was there. I am going to actually go through the 700 pictures I did get in the past 8 months, and get back to putting them up regularly.
