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last year seemed to be a high water mark for everything. while i didn’t mean it to be my attempt of photographing everyone who spoke to me turned away from away of making the trip personal and to remember those with whom i came in contact with and became more of an exercise pathetic midwestern art schools would foster.

that is not true for the most part those i photographed last year had the importance of those of the past, but i could feel myself become more sanguine to the point where it became a photographic portrait session. there were a few times when i was with the wrong camera - it seems that during the navegatio of 2008 the people camera became the digital - and would ask the people to wait while i got the proper one. talk about spoiling the mood.

even in 2008 i was worried that the process of getting the photograph was more important than the underlying reason. last year was worse.

this year there is no running back for the correct camera, in fact i have photograph few of the people i have talked to as the chat was more important than the photograph. there are a few times that i regret this - fred in her machine telling me about potlotek, the guards at marine atlantic escorting me back to my machine after i left the confines to get something from tim’s, the scandanavian who befriended me but with the exception of fred they would have all been the type of image that the documentary expert in the department would have made - completely soulless ripe for theory.

i like this new moderation, as again the moment is more important than the photograph, marianne who cut my hair with her next customer - joking about a may december - “november i’m not that old” relationship, tom coming back and the camera being raised while we talk about the time that has passed since i was at the bank or montréal building.

last year was a good wander, while part of it bordered on pure mannerism and it seemed that i forgot why i like to wander, not to get some place but to go, it allowed for all the excess in what i thought i was supposed to be doing run through my system and i am much better for it.