The Time Traveler

As some of you know, I've joined the ranks of our members who also maintain a blog (yes, I have other bad habits as well!). My subject matter can be just about anything and recently, by reader request, I've started a simple how-to series for the user of the family 'point-n-shoot.

This week I went back to my bad habits and have gotten one of my strongest positive responses on the post, so I thought I would share the entry among this esteemed group for additional feedback.

http://www.essentiallight.blogspot.com

Thanks for any thoughts or comments you may have.

Jim,

I'm glad I read your story. Very nicely written and engaging enough to want me to keep reading to the end - which is always a successful mark of a good piece of writing - good story telling.

I enjoyed reading it, but do have a critique/comment. You start out discussing the concept of "time" and photography. I was getting geared up to read that you had solved the "time continuum" or something beyond the shutter speeds and "moments in time" (my theme too btw, so I was very interested in reading what you had to say.) In the end the story finishes with simply the capture of an image you had wanted for a long time. Certainly something we all can take pride in when those things happen, but I was left wondering what happened with the "time" theme. You almost tie it back in with your last paragraph, but the word "time" isn't even there.

Don't mean to be a English story telling critic here, but the classic thing I always remember is: Tell me what you're going tell me, then tell me, then tell me again what you told me.... or something like that.

Ignoring all that jibberish, I liked your piece.

Lon

Lon,

Thanks for taking the time to comment. I do appreciate it. I'll keep those comments in mind for future entries.

Thanks again!