Colorado Photography by Chester Bullock

Sometimes I think I am a crazy person for believing in some of my photographs the way I do. Take this one for example. It is a crop of a larger image, but there were some things in the larger one that I didn’t like. Rather than editing them out and going through all that (which I deperately need to learn how to do better), I just cropped the image down to the piece I liked. Unfortunately, that operation left the Saguaro cactus in the middle of the image. In all of the images I have seen of Arizona, I can’t really say that I have seen any others like this. Which made me think I was crazy for liking it.

Fast forward to this past weekend. I was reading a book on exposure, and lo and behold, the other had taken a similar image in Arizona. Going through the book more, I saw other shots similar in nature to the ones I had come up with all on my own. Knowing what the publishing cycle is like, I know this guy was there before me. But we saw similar things. That is really encouraging to me. To see similar photos published in a book alleviates any thoughts of being crazy. It reinforces my thought that I might know at least a little bit about what I am doing.

BTW – watch for the book review soon, I am almost done with it. And not too soon – I have 3 more books coming in from Amazon this week.