MOLESKIN

There’s no other way to describe it but to say it’s pure excitement!  Most people will get excited about a new car or a new gadget, and trust me I do to, but this is something that I know few people to get excited about.  I just picked up a new notebook…  I know I know, why would you get excited about a notebook?  Well to me a notebook has so much significance.

Yes, I’m a photographer.  But I think that much of the creativity that I use in my photography flows out elsewhere as crazy and wild ideas of inventions, artwork, moving sculptures, and strange products to sell on infomercials at 2am!  The thing of it is, I’m a photographer, and if I was constantly chasing these other ideas, I wouldn’t be a very good photographer.  So the thousands of ideas that I’ve had over the years end up in one place, a notebook.  The floating cars, and new and improved trash cans are all worthy causes, but simply I have no time to develop them.  I know that focus is one of the keys to success, so I continue on my path as a photographer because I know the more I focus, the better I become.

So these notebooks are sort of my way to, umm, get it off my chest.  I have to vent them somehow and many of my friends and family are sick of me coming up with these ideas and not pursuing them.  So the notebook is like my friend that’s always there to listen.  Listen to how my day went, how I figured out a new way to lift the lid on a toilet using a lever system so you wouldn’t have to touch the rim, and how my last photoshoot went.  I love my friends, but none is as faithful as my trusty notebooks.  They take all of my ideas, listen to them as I write on their pages, and carefully hold them for years to come.

Actually, I have a bunch of notebooks.  Enough that I’ve had to start storing some of them in my garage because my room is getting full of them.  If you’re ever in need of a way to keep your boat from sinking, give me a call, I have a half notebook on that one.  Or what if you were looking to keep your wine bottle from dripping after you pour your glass?  Well, I have about thirty pages on that idea.  In the mean time though, just call me for some pictures.  Because that’s where my focus is, and that’s what I’m really good at… and becoming even better.  Here’s a little quote to encourage you to focus on what’s important.

~Alexander Graham Bell