soon, it will be over

[rover]

He will be back in the game soon.

Look at me, I have stopped buying, and selling how many times?

Right now even my dogs don't like hanging out with me for fear that I will post a FS ad for them.

"OT/FS Large yellow lab, very friendly but with an occational gas problem...."

I guess in addition to photography, I also enjoy the act of the trade and comerce.

 

[taffer]

He will be back in the game soon.

Look at me, I have stopped buying, and selling how many times?

True, and not only you, I've seen so many members here do the same...

Right now even my dogs don't like hanging out with me for fear that I will post a FS ad for them.

"OT/FS Large yellow lab, very friendly but with an occational gas problem...."

*lol* !

I guess in addition to photography, I also enjoy the act of the trade and comerce.

Not to mention 'winning' on the bay...

 

[Grumblepunk]

Joe, I am compulsively passionate about my interests. It means nothing to me to sell most of life's necessities to fund those things that I *think* that I need, at the very instant that I think that I need them. I am the type of fool that the dime store junk at check-out lines was made for.

Needless to say, I had to make a move similar to yours. I sold everything that wasn't absolutely dear to me, from every past flight of fancy I'd ever had, so that I could concentrate on the one thing that always stays with me. The photography. This 'purge' pretty much left with a English Longbow that I made a few years back with John Strunk and a FED-2a to keep me shooting, while I hunted for a new camera.

When the dust settles from all of this, I hope to have 1 strong M body and 1 strong 35mm or 50mm lens and that is all. I will concentrate on learning that lens completely, using it for everything, as a means of disciplining my eyes and methodology.

Not sure why I'm babbling all this out, except to say I know where you're coming from and I completely understand. Just remember that HCB used 1 lens his entire life and think about what he was able to accomplish. I keep using that as a mantra to assuage my eBay finger.

I just hope nobody waves a black paint Canon P under my nose, through it all...

 

[GeneW]

Good resolution, Joe! It feels good to take a philosophical stand now and then. Let us know if it affects your relationship to photography!

Gene

 

[Doug]

no, soon i will re engage myself and re initiate my inner drive. i will re set the goal and concentrate on making photos that have impact and that i can show with pride.
soon i will re affirm that it is the photo not the gear, the eye and not the lens...
my focus will be photographs not cameras.

I wish you success and fun, Joe! Generally I think it’s more effective to announce or demonstrate what one has done/accomplished, rather than what one intends to do. Good intentions can evaporate. But that can be an embarrassing outcome! So, another reason to state intentions is to use the avoidance of this embarrassment to stiffen one’s internal resolve not to falter. I’ll guess that’s what you’re doing, and I’m willing to be “used” in that way! So I’ll be watching, Joe, anticipating your photos with impact, and watching your progress! Best wishes!

I too have plenty of gear to produce photos with fine technical quality, and should not let pursuit of further gear distract or substitute for honest photographic efforts. :angel:

 

[back alley]

i DO like the announcements in life.

too much, do you think?

joe