Attention, my tens of readers:

I have initiated a pilot program to expand the content on this site. The new, probably soon-to-be-abandoned project is pretentiously titled Visual Narrative and appears as a link to your right.

My goal with this section is to have, you guessed it, a “photo blog.” I’ve tried before, but this time, I swear, I’m sticking to it. I’m splitting the photographs on this section into the Gallery, which serves as my “image dump” area, a vast repository of snapshots, and the Visual Narrative, which will serve more as a “showcase.” I’m trying to keep things simple and minimal for now. One can just navigate from photo to photo (click on the little pointing hand in the middle above the photo).

What? You say the little pointing hand is not in the middle above the photo, but skewered awkwardly to the right or left or absent alltogether? I’m sorry, I haven’t tested the CSS-based layout on anything but Safari for Mac OSX and Firefox on Windows XP. You may be experiencing something that I am not interested in experiencing, but let me know, and I’ll see if I can fix it.

In fact, I’m actively soliciting feedback on this new feature. The idea is to showcase my theory that photography is the easiest refuge of artistic scoundrels. Sure, there are many very talented photographers with weblogs, and the quality on these sites is evident, but just about any charlatan with a digital camera or a scanner and access to the Internet can make a photoblog, and photography is, to me, subject to the monkey with the typewriter theory like very few other artforms. It only takes a second to take a photo. Take enough of them, and you’ll end up with something cool. Great photographers know how to edit their output.

I’m not claiming to be even a good photographer, just reserving some space for my lucky shots that illustrate either what I feel to be a decent photograph on its own merits, or a photo that is special to me for whatever reason.

I think you’ll at least be mildly amused.