Yes it's cold. Walking about in -20 wind chill temperatures is not fun. We managed to do two or three short journey's a day around the neighborhood - no Preble County.
For two days this week the wi-fi has been down. Not clear what caused this, perhaps the cold weather. Seems to be back and running nicely.
Spent time reading, finishing the bits and pieces left over from 2017 and preparing for 2018. While working thru the stack of reading material, came across an article on Stephen Shore containing the following:
"I could go on producing Uncommon Places pictures for decades afterwards.
What was not easy was to recognize that the questions I had that led to that work were essentially answered, and that I needed to take the more challenging path of pushing myself to something else."
Those words spoke strongly to me. Been documenting the Midwest for a long time. Perhaps it is the time to move on.
Don't believe the shift will occur suddenly, but as new questions come to mind, a gradual change will begin. In reviewing the collection of 2017 photographs, discovered a shifting selection of subject and composition.
Early in the year photographing a new location would begin with wide views.
Greenville, Ohio.
After taking establishing photographs would retrace back selecting sections that achieved the same message.
Union City, Indiana.
As the year passed there were fewer wide views and many more images containing a fragment of a scene.
The question was changing from location specific to universal specific.
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