There is nothing more I enjoy more than spending an evening with a good friend and sharing my love and passion for photography.
Having them touch and feel the great works of photographers in my growing collection of photo books
.. and watch a Flickr slide show of my favourites folder and allowing the free exchange of ideas and expression as we attempt to articulate what we like about the individual images as they move across the screen.
Of course, what really converts the apathetic, is a viewing of an episode of the six-part BBC series "The Genius of Photography" ... and to observe your guests zone out, totally absorbed as they watch what should be essential viewing for any budding photographer or lover of the photographic art. (I time-shift recorded the entire series when it played on cable a few months back).
You know, no amount of explaining can really rationalise the fact that, while in their company, you are continually snapping away with your SLR. That the reason you are getting up so close an personal is because you have your fisheye on the camera.
So photo-nights are always accompanied by an ample supply of red wine - which seems to target the same area of the brain as gets stimulated when viewing really great photography and allows you the liberty of poking a camera in the faces of your guests.
So, at the end of tonight's photo night, I have just enough gumption to actually blog the nights events.
And yes, I did take some shots of myself, using the timer function on the camera. - But I decided the Fisheye made me look fat. So I'm not posting them.
Here's hoping I wake up tomorrow feeling this blog posting was still a good idea.
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