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September 04 2023; As I celebrate today, my 73 trip around the sun I have been reflecting on what I would like to do differently while I am on the next rotation around the sun. First off I have never seen myself as a photographer, I am a painter. (My paintings can be seen by clicking on the link at the top of this blog.)   Rather I take snapshots daily to continually train my eyes and mind to recognize design elements, and in some cases humor, in everything that I encounter.  I started posting on Tumblr on July 01, 2011, as a classroom exercise for my drawing, painting, and design students in the media arts program at Cypress College. I challenged them to record, using a simple camera phone, images that documented the interesting elements that comprise our day-to-day mundane reality with emphasis on design and composition using a square format.

In the summer of 2015, I retired from teaching, as a full professor, after 38 years in the classroom. I have been posting a new picture ever day since the first post in July 2011. Tumblr reports that image is the 6,559 image that I have posted to date. Not bad, considering that I have never missed a day posting a new image from day one. Nor have I ever reposted any images.

Anyway, after giving it considerable contemplation I am going to take a long vacation from posting and spend more time working on my paintings. I will be back (God willing) I just have not set a timeline to rejoin the game.