Okay, this is going to be a list my reso–actually, I’m tired of saying that word, let’s substitute goals.  Here is a list of goals that I want to accomplish this year.  Not in any particular order.  I know that we’re three four months into the year, but I’ve been late with a lot of things in the past; it’s how I rolled:

• I didn’t get a cell phone until 1999, and I never had a pager; if I wasn’t at home you were going to talk to my answering machine

• I didn’t start using digital until 3 years ago, and I bought a old D1X(which was 6 yrs old at that time)

• I waited until age 33 to actually get serious and try to make my dream (photography for a living) a reality, why didn’t I try 10 years ago?

My 2010 Photography goals:

1.  Get physical with my imagery – Since these days so much is done digitally, alot of my photos just end up on my hard drive, or on this blog, nothing like the old days, when you had physical results from taking photographs.  You took photos,

You ended up with negatives or slides.   Some of those ended up in the form of prints

I want to make something physical – maybe put on my own show somewhere; something small, but something where I have an end to go along with the means.  Maybe I’ll do a photozine or a book, but something that I can hold in my hand, and in turn hand to someone.

2. Film – A while ago me and my wife were watching Kalifornia, in that movie Michelle Forbes is a photographer, and she spends the movie shooting with a Nikon F3 (I believe) and she asked me if I missed shooting film.  Even though I tailed off shooting film seriously over the last 10 years, it took me a little by surprise.  I did miss film somewhat, I recently ran a roll of slide film through my F4, I had forgotten how colors pop on slides!  So, I’m going to shoot more film this year, I’ve collected enough of it over the past 5 years that I haven’t shot

And I’ve accumulated more than enough film cameras…they need to be shot with.

3. Get project oriented – Come up with some projects that interest me, and then make them happen, not sitting around saying “I wish I could shoot, blah,blah, blah, maybe I’ll get to do that someday…”  Why does it have to be someday?  And when I start it, finish it.  What good is a project that you start, attack with full steam, and then just give up?  Even if it doesn’t work out like I envisioned – at least I can say, I finished….

4.  Keep a creative journal – this I’ve actually started:

and started: and started: and started

But it would be nice to keep it going, not write a page, or couple of pages, but actually have a book that I can come back to for inspiration.  And when I put ideas down in it…actually come back and try some of them

5. Take more personal photos -  life moves so fast it seems these days, the only way that we can remember the little details is to write it down, video it, or take pictures.  Like these of my wife and my niece decorating Easter cookies.

Something little now, but how are they going to feel about this moment looking back on these pictures in 10 years?  15 years? How am I going to feel?

6.  Network – get myself out there to other photographers, become part of the community.  It’s how you learn and how you find and create opportunities.

7.  And probably the most important thing on this list; getting comfortable with at some point I’m going to have to tell people that I’m a photographer.  Saying that phrase is heavy; there’s so much expectation attached to it.  You can read the books, take the workshops, the classes, do the TFCD work, do the photo zines, the 365 projects.  All that is so you can live it.  You can love it, because it’s what you are.  The moment you say that phrase, it’s what you do.