I'm being forced into a break in putting up photos due to lack of access to a film/photo scanner, so that probably won't start up until October or so (the thought of which makes me cringe considering there are still photos from March that I haven't posted yet).

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In my last blog I linked to the photo blog of an acquaintance of mine (I don't actually know him at all, really). His new one is here. I don't know what it is about these photos that keeps drawing me back... They are just the right amount of messy. If they were more neatly done the effect wouldn't be the same. It'd just be a photo of a road or a dashboard or a person sitting at a bar. Maybe I'm drawn to the way he totally owns the underexposure and the so-so focus and the non-traditional composition. Or maybe it's the (somewhat romantic) idea of giving up control of the photo. Using expired film and shooting from moving vehicles and catching blurs of colors and shapes and the hazy, indescribable feeling of the moment, instead of worrying about exposing for the sky or getting your friend to step a few feet to the left so the fat lady in the green sweater isn't in the shot.

Not that there is never a time for control. Just seems like there is something to be learned from almost everybody.