The Birth of a Blog / by tomas fiferna

It's hard to know exactly how to start a blog, but here I go... It feels as though this will end up being very much a stream of consciousness type ordeal without much structure. I imagine I'll use this format to ramble on about photography in a personal and general sense. There will probably be posts about my own struggles (there have been plenty) and successes (there have been some of those as well). I will most likely offer up my own take on common topics facing the world of photography... and of course there will be pictures. Many, many pictures. On that note, here is a random photo:    

Well, now that I think about it, maybe it's not so random. Since this post is a birth of sorts, I suppose a case can be made that uploading a picture of my firstborn daughter shortly after her birth is somewhat relevant. In fact, I think I'll name this post something dramatic like, "The Birth of a Blog". Anyway, it was at this point that my obsession with photography really started. Or at least, this was when photography began to really mean something to me. I had it in my head that I needed to document her life so that she could have a record of times that her memory couldn't account for. Well, it was something like that. It certainly started a journey that eventually led me to a point at which I would be writing a blog on a website devoted to my photography. I'll go ahead and end it at that. Stay tuned for more!