That's very kind of you to say that, Seamus.
Up until maybe fifteen years ago all of my best photos were singles, that is, I'd happen to be in a good place when the light was right and something worked. At some point I started trying to put together bunches of pictures from the same location, and as I've heard others say, I've found that going back over and over to familiar places often yields new images that don't just totally duplicate what I've seen there before.
Plum Island in Massachusetts is my extreme example. I had been going there for many years before I got a single photo that I liked. Then one day I was there in late afternoon, with a low sun, as the tide was ebbing, and the place suddenly seemed magic. I now go back there a few times each year when the conditions are pretty much the same, usually in the winter when there are fewer people there to leave footprints.
This past year I think I was especially lucky to encounter several new places that seemed immediately like visual "candy factories:" The Boiler room at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and the Boston Waterworks Museum, plus a few others.
The kind of street photos that you come up with I have great admiration for. I find that kind of photography much harder than what I do.
Cheers,
Eric
