Japan in the library

 

After I finish up here at the library, after 31 years, my darling wife and I will be going to Japan for awhile.

Naturally though it is all starting to blur a bit together.

The lost archives of... the last few hours

 

Over the last couple of days I have been digging deep in the clerkmanifesto archives for some of our best overlooked photographs. I have more of these today, except, well, these were mostly made in the last several hours.

That doesn't mean they weren't deep in the archives!

You wouldn't believe how fast I can forget some of this stuff. Also I cannot keep up with my organizational systems. An hour after I finish a series involving baroque redesigns of flowers, or images turned into chinese tattoos, they are as lost to me as a bonus fox and skunk picture from the time of covid.

I'm just saying that simply because some of these pictures were done today doesn't mean they aren't forgotten treasures pulled from the deep archives of clerkmanifesto.

More pictures from the archives

 

With so many photo projects swirling around clerkmanifesto these past months, many very nice images were left on the cutting room floor. That is why over these few days I am presenting some of my photographs that missed their chance to appear on clerkmanifesto.

How sad they all were!

How happy they will be now.

Outtakes and forgotten delights

 

In the feverhouse of my photography endeavors, there are many things that have gone unseen here on clerkmanifesto. Some have gone unseen because alternate versions were published. Some have gone unseen because I lost them in the tumult and shuffle of making, showing, and organizing so many pictures. And some have gone unseen because they didn't fit in with any theme or group and so were set aside.

Over the next few days we rectify all this!

We will be showing pictures, which, is, um, something we do a lot. But the exciting thing about these pictures is that they have nothing to do with anything, have no theme, and are probably pretty random.

I'm not sure that's an exciting thing, actually.

But maybe all this excitement on the Internet hasn't been good for anyone!

Maybe it's made everyone drunk.

Oh.

Everyone on the Internet is drunk!

I think I have stumbled upon the very... well, nevermind.

Here is a cup of water, so to speak. It will help you not have a headache later:

My walk in Disney

 

There isn't any reason to complicate this.

I went for a walk today. I went to one of my favorite spots down by the river, with woods all along it. I took some pictures.

I tried to take the very best pictures I could, but I could see right away they looked a little lonely, the pictures. The places I took the pictures of didn't seem lonely. They seemed happy. But the pictures seemed lonely and I wanted to cheer them up as soon as I could.

So I gave them animals. Well I mostly gave them animals. I gave a few flowers too. And a mushroom.

They watched me over my shoulder and said, change this and fix this and could you put a flower in the squirrel's mouth.

I could put a flower in a squirrel's mouth.

Then they were quiet for awhile.

"Do you want them to be less real?" I asked.

"Yes please." They said quietly, in a small voice I could barely hear.

"Should I make them look like Disney?" I asked.

They thought for awhile and then they shook their head yes.

I made them look like Disney.

They shook their head yes again.

I walked home. When I was almost there I looked at them. 

I thought, wow.

"Were the woods I was walking in really this pretty?" I asked.

They looked over my shoulder again.

"Yes." They replied. "This is exactly where you were." 

Which is just what you want your photographs to say.