f.8BeThere YouTube Channel is LIVE!

I have been thinking about this one for a very long time, and the concept may change and it may fall flat, but make no mistake – IT IS REAL.

I want to take my own journey back and forth in time, and bring anyone interested along for the ride. I think it is time. It is time to get so much out of the past, take one last look and throw it in the fire.

And that is exactly what I hope to have the time to do. I have a bit of experience in the YouTube world, and although it is NOW in a state of constant change, I am doing a fair job of keeping up – as we approach the quarter-point of the 21st. Century.

What I hope to do is just tell stories, my stories. Stories related to an unremarkable life in photography, the people I knew, worked with, and a few I wish I had never met. Yes, I will drop those names. I would love anyone who does a “search” to find the memories I have – for what they’re worth … not much.

Read the video description if this self exposure, intrigues you. This journey, should it take root in my daily planning and execution, will go back to the middle of the 1980’s, and even take a brief sprint back to the 1970’s if you stay tuned long enough.

In conceiving this project, that I expect not to end anytime soon, I started thinking about the chronology of how to tell it. My mind labored at the idea of that thought – start now and go back, start at the beginning and go forward?

I decided to take the memories as they come, and try to get them down on video before they go.

Focus shift. It is just that simple.

While success is grabbing me by the air, missing completely, I decided to take a long look back with a little help from our favorite past time – YouTube.

SUCCESS HAS MANY FATHERS

Failure is an orphan. And so it goes. The time just seemed right for a full monty retrospective (heck of a big word for my career) … for no other reason than to put it on the record and hope someone somewhere gets something out of it.

WITNESS

Make no mistake, I have witnessed some things in my life. Things that were mostly great to me and no one else, but they are my tapestry. It’s a tapestry that is getting tattered by time now.

Photographic memories are slowly fading, and there is no one who can help me recall them with precision, the precision demanded of my past photographic life. Still I wonder to myself, “Why should anyone care, or read, or watch what is about to come?” I can’t think of a single reason.

BURN DOWN THE PAST

At the end of it all lies a bonfire, my bonfire of my vanities. It is only right to destroy the record once it is recorded, and I am satisfied with that. This is my last trip through the past, and it takes no prisoners while giving me a late release from my prisons of the past. Names will be named, and no sugar will be coated.

PART ONE

In part one, I change the name of the YouTube Channel for my photography to something more fitting. That is done today! The BRAND NEW YouTube Channel name for the upcoming record is f.8bethere

In the grand photographic scheme, these stories to come are insignificant. But if for no other reason than to burn the negatives, they must be finally told, small though they may be.

PERHAPS one reason for the telling, if there is one, is to say, “This is how it was, how it was for me, in the short life of a photographic living, a visual life. An honest living cut way too short.”

Give Me My Plane

By now we were all supposed to have our own airplanes, or hovercraft or some flying cars. It hasn’t happened yet. But that hasn’t stopped me from being a photography futurist – to this very moment in time. I love digital. I love the control. I hate the mystery of film – and I will tell you why!

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