Shutter to Think

I have been delving a bit deeper into photography lately during the rare and precious moments I have outside the office. I haven't ever fallen in love with a hobby to this extent before. I did not think it was possible. It consumes me, and yet it has always been there. I just never knew I had any interest in it.

Anyhow, I've started a new project that I am calling Traveling Without Moving. It's a series inspired by very short pieces of ambient sound captured around the world and married to photographs shot in a single room in Manhattan. It's a work in progress and I will be writing an artist statement and formalizing the project this weekend but for now, it's my little way of dreaming about travel again.

There is only you and your camera.

Broome Street Nights, originally uploaded by alexisstember.

“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.”
-Ernst Haas

I've started uploading pictures to my Flickr site. I'm just getting back into photography so this may be slow going but there are a few things to look at now. Unfortunately, Blogger is in the habit of brutally cropping photos but you'll be appropriately redirected if you click the image above.