Starting Off...

Toward the beginning of this semester I thought about starting a photoblog to display what I shot. Nothing fancy, but someplace where I could put up things for my family and friends to see. As I debated the merit of such a blog in my head, it dawned on me that I wished everybody would do this; I have lots of friends who are excellent photogs but I actually see very little of their work, aside from that which they deem to email me or is published in The Battalion. Likewise I know that they have many friends who also shoot and produce excellent work. So, I submit to you this blog, cheesily called “A Shared Vision”.* The idea is for photographers to be able to share their work and see and learn from that of others.

I want anyone who is a member to try to upload pictures at least once a week. I’m reasonably sure that, at least initially, everyone here will be some type of college student and therefore will be laden with all accompanying workload and stress and whatnot but this thing will shrivel and die without anyone contributing to it. If you work for a newspaper or yearbook and can include captions, please do. Also, if you can use an outside source for hosting (personal site, smugmug, flickr, whatever) please do so as well.

The thing that I am really excited about in all of this is getting to see things from guys/girls who I don’t even know (at least at the start) who will be posting on here because they know Philip or Preston or Spencer or Wade or me or somebody. As far as I can tell there will be some sort of strong Texas A&M/Oklahoma State bonding going on here, for which I am definitely game.

To start things off lets do the following: post a picture you’ve shot within the last week that you like and your favorite picture from this semester thus far. Or “one of your favorites” if you can’t narrow it down. Also your name and if you shoot for anything/anyone (publication, athletic department, etc). You will need an account with Blogger. Email me when you get one and I will add you to the list.

I am still figuring how to work this all myself so bear with me (us).

-Stephen Fogg

* The name comes from the idea that we show each other our pictures, thus sharing our “view” on things. That and “Shared Vision” was already taken, thus saddling us with the inferior indefinite article laden title.