Photo of the Week 2017-12-04

Quietly they sit unnoticed. Tucked away among many of their kind. They wait for their moment, for their turn to be liberated.

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I'm speaking of those 'gems in the rough', those image captures that reside in your storage media. They've played their part and been backed up, racked up and stacked up, all in the name of archiving.

Then one day they catch your eye. Something has changed. Not with them, but with you, the photographer. Perhaps just the right amount of time has passed for them to suitably marinate in your subconscious. Perhaps you have been stirred by some recent work from another, words of an instructor-mentor, obtaining new skills in the craft or some other experience on the current leg of your Photographic Journey.

Once noticed, they command your creative attention and you work with them, on them, and when all is done ... sometimes they see the light of day.

DJE