One hit wonder, The Best of, or Stay tuned...

Resuscitating my blog! Seeing many of my fellow friends and artists write about their personal thoughts and observations of late has inspired me to revive my own blogging which has been mostly neglected four almost four years. Looking through some of my early posts I found this one which is still relevant to me today so I will begin with one of my favorite posts from 2008. If you enjoy what I've posted in the past on FB, follow my blog for my unique and personal view on life and experience.

Photographers must withstand, with the help of their families and friends, the psychic battering that comes from what they see. In order to make pictures that no one has made before, they have to be attentive and imaginative, qualities partly assigned and partly chosen, but in any case ones that leave them vulnerable. When Robert Frank put down his camera after photographing The Americans he could not so readily escape the sadness of the world he recorded as could we when we closed the book.
Paradoxically, photographers must also face the threat that their vision may one day be denied them. Their capacity to find their way to art, which is their consolation-to see things whole-may fail for an hour or a month or forever because of fatigue or misjudgment or some shift in spirit that cannot be predicted or understood or even recognized until it has happened past correction. For every Atget, Stieglitz, Weston, or Brandt who remains visionary to the end, there is an Ansel Adams who, after a period of extraordinary creativity, lapses into formula. excerpt from THE EDUCATION of a PHOTOGRAPHER, edited by Charles H. Traub, Steven Heller, and Adam B. Bell.
I often think about this potential fate. You see it often with artists/writers, they produce a great body of work for a period of time and then reach a plateau in their career. The work becomes average instead of ground breaking or innovative. Will I succeed? Only time will tell. A one hit wonder or a visionary to the end?