Blinded

 After a lovely dinner with my brother and his family, I decided to wander the streets. As you all can tell I like to wander around at night. I find that wandering in the dark provides me clarity. It also brings out my creativity, I see things that others don't see. I see beauty in the night, I also have. I find it romantic, creative and eye opening. Most of what i take photographs of seem to represent my life in some way. I recently had my portfolio looked  at by one of my mentors who used to wandering the streets of NYC and was very good friends with Garry Winograd. Don, stated  I  do very well with reflections and this one, in the dark conjures up the spirit of night in the frame. It speaks, or rather reads well and I feel the loneliness of a lost soul. The street, blogs  lights etc are lonely also and yet there is no direct attachment for the spirit or street to hug each other. It is interesting how you can know a person by what they create. I have to say if I wasn't introduced to this creative outlet I don't know where i would be. Photography has given me a new outlook on my life, a purpose if you will . I can say that it has very well taken over my life.  It' s all thanks to chance meeting 7 years ago.
 
"I only thought I loved you before; it was nothing like this certainty that's in me now. Was all this so wonderful only because it was brief and stolen? Were we acting for each other, to each other? Was I less I, or more I, and you less or more you? Is it madness to believe that this could go on? When and where would the drab moments begin? I study you so much to discover the possible flaws, the weak points, the danger zones. I don't find them—not any. That means I am in love, blind, blind. To be blind forever!"
— Henry Miller