i used to get e-mails asking why i update my photo galleries so rarely; some of these expressed disappointment, others expressed condolences in case they had accidentally hit a raw nerve and i had in fact no photo assignments to cover, resulting in the gallery’s dry spell.

now that i don’t get these e-mails anymore, i wonder if it’s because people have given up on my galleries and don’t visit anymore, or if people have altogether stopped believing my promises to update. (my photoblog being a slightly neglected entity and proof of the unreliability of my claims.)

for that, i went back and looked at the heaps of pictures i have lying about my hard drive and in CD format, and realised that i have been pretty shabby. as a small update, i uploaded my not-so-recent shots of gabriel and adele’s fun day, where i lurked about shooting a photo shoot of them.

that’s right: i shot a shoot. (how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood… yeah, yeah. i get it.)

and i’m finally going to jump on the flikr bandwagon. i’ve resisted it for as long as i have, because i’m generally resistant to things that are so automated, and that “everyone’s” on. buuuut, that automation has risen and waggled its butt at me because it’s exactly the unautomation of my current gallery system that has prevented me from posting more often in the first place.

and going back to basics, i found a whole stash of 20 rolls of film a few days ago. which will give me the impetus to go back to my noisy, noisy but beloved FM to escape the nervous tick-like bad habit of checking the LCD preview screen on my digital SLR after each shot.

also, there’s a certain satisfaction, a strange comfort level afforded by the *CHK* of the shutter when it fires. no, it isn’t a click. it’s a *CHK*.

so here’s yet another vague promise to myself and to whoever would care to listen, on beginning to organise my stock photo work, refiling and burning digital work, and most importantly, to shoot, shoot, shoot again.