A Fresh Start

DSC_0208, originally uploaded by bjhiggins.

I had let this space fall dormant, unused for nearly two years.

I decided it was time for a fresh start, wiping out the eleven posts that had previously resided here, hoping that this attempted reboot will be more fruitful than previous attempts.

What exactly I'll be posting, I'm not sure. Sometimes, it will be a picture I inexplicably love, or perhaps a shot I'm proud of, or maybe something significant. Some photos will be new, and some will be from my archives. Some will be digital, others will be scanned negatives from when I worked with film.

Mostly, this will be a space where I show you my photography, a sort-of digital portfolio with commentary. If you know me, you should know what to expect - the camera mainly seems to find time to come out when I'm in Disney World or when I'm doing a show, so a lot of my shots are Disney-or-Theatre-centric. However, as I dip through the archives, we can expect a wide variety of things.

Hopefully I'll be able to keep this iteration of the blog far more active than my previous attempts...I'll certainly try.

Now, the photo above. I took a trip with seven friends to Walt Disney World. I took over 6800 pictures while I was on this trip, and that shot was the last picture I took. It seemed to be a fitting ending to the whole trip, since I experienced a great majority of the trip through the camera's viewfinder. I was shooting while we rode Splash Mountain and Thunder Mountain. I was shooting in Animal Kingdom during Kilimanjaro Safari and Expedition Everest and Finding Nemo: The Musical. I had two friends get on the stage for the American Idol experience, and the camera was pressed to my eye for the whole time. That's not to say there weren't times when I put the camera down, but a large chunk of the trip was spent with a lens between me and my friends. To cap off my photographic journey with a reflection of this seemed entirely fitting.