Don’t pay attention the next time I complain about how sucky shooting in Northern New England is in the winter. It’s just a matter of patience. Beautiful morning on Lake Fairlee in Fairlee, Vermont and worth freezing my fingers off.

Every time I question whether or not it’s worth all the challenges of shooting 120 at events I get back a shot like this. Yeah, sure, not the world’s greatest image but the textures and depth, for me, remain singular and what I’m after. And, at least, different. Which is good, because the funny looks, ranging from pity to full-on scorn, I get when standing among the photo pool with a clunky old 67 can make me doubt the wisdom of the entire enterprise. BTW, the flare from the flash on the left side of the frame was just a lucky coincidence. But as Henry said in Barfly, “Dumb luck. Yeah, but that counts too.”

The lull is over, I think. Things seem to be pointing back towards busy. Just home from a quick NYC weekend with Ben F and hanging with James and co. All this on the heels on getting a totally great bit of recognition from the culture luminaries at Selectism. So trying to finish up a couple reasonably successful personal projects before the travel starts in earnest week after next. Unfortunately the travel does not include a trip to Tabor for CX Worlds, but we have enough cold and bluster around here, even if we’re missing the world class CX racers.

Thanks in large part to Jeremy and some last-minute frame salvaging down in the basement, my photo show, HOME AND AWAY, is now hung at Bloc11 in Somerville. It was great to see all the prints all in one place and all framed to look as good as possible. Especially the C-prints and the 4×5 Polaroids, I love the way they look. We’ll be having an opening at some point in the next few weeks I think, but in the meantime it’s worth swinging by and looking at show.

When not shooting ice fishing, making the winter scene in Boston has become how I pass this winter. How excellent: eating greasy spoon food, talking my model into pounding a Stella at lunch (Stella glasses look great), riding the T for hours. And not freezing my fingers off. But speaking of freezing fingers, it’s off to MN next week to finish up a project we started back in November. One of the best projects I’ve ever worked on, stay tuned.