Man, things have been full on since returning from the trip to Washington and Oregon. It’s hard to believe that is was almost three weeks ago now. One observation I made was that taking photos digitally rather than on film created some changes in my photographic process, but in some ways my behaviors are slow to change. For example- after my trip to Denmark and Sweden to see Etta, who was studying over there, I waited about a week to develop the film that I exposed in Europe. Whether anxious anticipation or plain old laziness prevented me from getting my eyes on the negatives as soon as I could, it took a while for me to get around to doing something with the photos I took.

The same sort of thing has happened with the photos that I took on the PNW trip, even though I was able to look at them as soon as I shot them. Maybe perfectionism is the delay here, as it so commonly is. The photos mean a lot to me, so I want them to be the best that they can be, but if I’m busy, then I cannot give them the time that they deserve. In reality, it doesn’t take long at all to sit down and go through a few photos here and there, make a few tweaks, and publish a few. That there is what I have done, and here are some photos from day one of the PNW trip.