Chewuch River
from "Elements of Change"
Here in the American South, we are accustomed to hearing people talking about “Fixin’ to Get Ready to...” For those of you not familiar with this phrase, it means simply means that preparations are in the offing for some event. No progress has been made, but soon something just might happen.
So it is with the 2014 photo safari. The safari is that annual activity where Brooks Jensen and I go out and pretend to be Fine Art Photographers. I’m fixin’ to get ready for this event. We’re not sure where we are going to wind up this year because of all the forest fires in Central Washington, but we will wind up somewhere making what we think are Fine Art Photographs.
One of the things I’m fixin’ to get ready to do is how to do my daily blog updates. I have always blogged from the field. (Really. Go on back and look in the archives during the month of September.) This required my laptop and photoshop. The laptop is now old, underpowered and really heavy. This year, I think the blogging duties will be handled by my trusty iPad mini. I have everything I need for blogging in one thin, smallish electronic gizmo. I’m hoping I can figure out how to use that device to create a blog post (with a photo or two) to let you know what's going on during the trip.
Seeing as how we are going to be heading out in about a month, I think I better do a little bit more than start fixin’ to get ready.
The picture in today’s blog is the Chewuch River near Winthrop, Washington. The photograph was made in 2008. The aftermath of the “Thirtymile Burn” is very evident seven years after it devastated the Methow Valley. 9300 acres were burned that year. This summer’s fires were much larger. I don’t know how that will affect our photography. A minor point to those whose lives were devastated by these fires.
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