Land of Scape

There I was on social media again as too often has been my habit lately since 2009 and the discovery of Facebook. Prints I had taken thirty years ago and never seen by any could be viewed by all. Well, by those on your wall and even not most of them, but still. And so I scanned and shared. It was grand. 

And then I found Smug Mug and Fine Art America and any number of other sites where they( for a fee) would print and frame and send the photos for you, leaving me to shoot. And so I did. And in came rolling...not exactly. One-two annually? 

And then I joined the local gallery and for again a nominal fee, they would hang your work for all to see. And so again I was on my way. Not exactly again.

And so I saw where a particular person made several million from one print down in a canyon and another just purchase himself another Pentax 645Z for over 8 grand, and i again realized, I am doing something wrong.

I am chasing dreams with iPhones and little point and shoots, the DSLR I seldom even use. And when I go to enlarge that small sensor shot, well, 8x10 is about the limit. 

So what good is all this running about? Capturing everything happening within a twenty mile radius? 

The need to capture, where does that drive come from? To just shoot and not market? It sure makes for a poor man who cannot afford an 8k Pentax.