I need to start photographing strangers and finish my “100 Strangers” project. I’ve got 4 so far but need to get at least 2 per month. It does a couple of things, one it gets you used to talking to strangers and getting their photo and two helps you with portraits.

I really love photography…probably to much. I look back and growing up most all of our pictures would fit into a few albums. I have 25 or more albums full of pictures of the family. It’s to a point when I print photos I look and think do I really want a hard copy of this. Is it worthy of print. I know growing up there are years that their is not one picture of me. It goes from like 5 to 9…WTF, and then skips to 12 and then to 19 or so. No photos of me in high school, no photos of me getting my drivers license, or going on my first date. I have photos of every event in my children s life. Hey I lost my first tooth…got it. I got my drivers license… documented for the future. So at least they can never wonder, I wonder what I looked like at 13 years old.

I think I’ve over documented the life of my family. My future relatives are going to look back and think… wow, great great granddad really took a lot of pictures of everyone! At least that is my hope.