Last night I had this strange dream. It was one of those super realistic dreams that seems like it is actually happening – not one of those crazy green elephants performing backflips on a trampoline made of peacock feathers, dreams.
So in this photo-realistic dream, I’m returning to my office and the first think I always do is check my answering machine (I’ve got an 800# and while I always try to answer in person, sometimes I’m meeting a client, or at a shoot, or can’t quite get to the phone in time so the machine gets it). The little red light is flashing and there is one missed call, and one message waiting for me.
I press the button and I’m greeted with a voice I vaguely recognize, but can’t quite place. The message goes “hey Eric, where the Heck are you? For the last two weeks I’ve been checking your website everyday and all I’ve been getting over and over is the La Dolce Vita slideshow. When are you going to make another blog post?”
Then I wake up in a cold sweat. OK, It’s not a cold sweat, but I do wake up. You see, for the last 15 days I’ve been traveling with my wife in France and Spain. So my internal clock is all back to front and my days and nights are switched by 9 hours. And that’s the reason there hasn’t been any new content on my little wedding photography blog.
Sure, I could have brought my Apple Macbook Pro, and dragged it all over the continent, looking for a WiFi signal I could steal, then plugged in my FireWire CF card reader to download all the great photos from my Nikon cameras and Lenses, that I’ve been taking of the people and places I’ve seen on my vacation. But instead, I went Old School Photography.
I chose to travel light – a single carry on bag for my clothes, and my handmade Italian leather satchel on my shoulder with a few guidebooks, maps, my Leica with a single 50mm lens, and my favorite lightmeter.
And just this morning I dropped off a large ziploc bag full of exposed film to my favorite local lab, Holland Photo, in Austin. Tomorrow afternoon, I’ll drive down, and pick up a stack of positives, and CDs, and before the cash register drawer closes, I’ll be pouring over the slides on the light table, and marking my favorites from the trip. And over the next 2-weeks, I’ll be sharing the details of my trip with you. So stay tuned, and subscribe to my RSS feed so you don’t miss a single post.
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