Mechanics cars tend to be in dire need of repair. Who wants to fix their own car after spending all day fixing other peoples cars in the freezing cold of winter?
This is where I find myself. I spend Monday to Friday every week either shooting pictures and video or editing them (all for other people). Weekends are mostly free with the family, but picking up a camera to shoot personal stuff doesn’t enter my mind much these days. Worse than that, the thought of having to edit any personal pictures, after spending too many hours in front of computer screens doesn’t exactly thrill me.
I miss photography for the sheer pleasure of it! I miss the challenges we used to set as a group here at Kage. We always produced when we had deadlines, themes, and quite often limitations. These haven’t been happening for a while now and we have grinded to a halt.
My two favourite cameras (of all time) are the X-Pro2 and the X100V. My favourite lenses to shoot personal work is the Fujicron’s (X-series has always been about small size for me). So my self imposed limitations for this project will be the following:
Week 1 - 28mm (full-frame) using the X-Pro2 & 18/2
Week 2 - 35mm (full-frame) using the X100V (possibly the X100F too)
Week 3 - 50mm (full-frame) using the X-Pro2 & 35/2
Week 4 - 75mm (full-frame) using the X-Pro2 & 50/2
Having just bought a new Nord Wave 2 synthesiser and been blown away by the quality of the sound it can create, I would love to incorporate some music in some way. But this is just hope and at the end of the day, I probably won’t have time. We’ll see.
As for what I will shoot…I have no idea at this point. It might just be a series of random snapshots in the end, but it will be February 2022
Good luck to my fellow Kage members. Good luck to all that are struggling.
Derek Clark
January 30th 2022
