Some people would have had a day like this, taken one or two group selfies, posted them to instagram, and called it a day. I, on the other hand, took maybe a hundred pictures, waited six months, made selects from them, let them sit another two months, killed the duds (photos that just don’t work for whatever reason), did proper toning and exposure adjustment on the rest, and then now I’m posting them to my own damn web site.
Instagram is not my friend and it’s probably not yours either; this site, to steal a line from my friend Robin, “… doesn’t collect any information about you or your reading. It aspires to the speed and privacy of the written page.” That’s why it’s fast, despite using the biggest images I can get away with. There’s no bullshit loading that you don’t see. Anyway. Here are some nice pictures from a lovely day in the park with friends, sometime last year.
Some people might say, matt, why you gotta go so hard, and to them I say: I don’t know any other way to be. If I’m gonna do something, I’m gonna do the thing. I picked up the camera when I was fourteen and I’ve been taking pictures seriously ever since.
