These days everyone and their moms claim to be "interested in photography" on their resumes, and have all the fancy equipment and SLR cameras. I don't recall interest in photography being such a ubiquitous thing before -- perhaps the transition from film to digital has made photography more accessible since you don't have to pay for having the film developed or have to do it yourself in a dark room. Anyway, having a super shallow depth of field and cranking up the contrast on your computer, or Adobe Lightroom-ing a photo to make it all yellowy and vintagey-looking, seem to be what pass as good photography nowadays, at least on blogs (and no, I'm not saying mine are any better). It bugs me that it's a formula for creating aesthetically pleasing pictures and that's what everyone (but not literally everyone) does Where's the creativity? I just think it leaves something to be desired.
I just came across this guy's comic blog, xkcd. He has a great sense of humor and I've been browsing through his comics at work because obviously no one gets anything done on Friday afternoons (good thing the only people around to hear me lol are slackers too). It's a weird mix of science and poetry and humor but somehow it works. For half the them you need to understand something about engineering or programming to get the humor, but for laymen like me the rest are still great. Check it out!
"We made it so far together but then I lost you in the trees."
