Here is the start of a a framework for exploring photography. I’ve dabbled with photography for years, but have been unsatisfied with the results. Not necessarily aesthetically, but personally. It’s not that I could never produce pictures that were visually attractive, but they just didn’t do anything for me. Or else, I found myself unmotivated by them.

Basically, I found that the fun, and even the challenge, of simply making nice looking pictures wasn’t motivating. This realization may have come about from starting with virtual reality photography. Although I tinkered with standard photography, most of what I made were spherical pictures (virtual reality photos, or VRs). Something was missing, but I still felt drawn to explore it. Continue reading →

Long ago, a ship traveling far out at sea became stranded in the open waters. It quickly became obvious the ship was going nowhere. Since this happened in the days before radio and far away from other shipping traffic, there was no hope of anyone coming to their rescue. But in the far distance, the passengers could just make out an island. As time passed with no other option, the passengers realized their only hope for survival lay in reaching that island.

They set to work devising a way to get there.

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