My wife told me today that she thought I was lucky because I am happy and I like what I do so it doesn't seem like work. True that. Lately I've felt overwhelmed. I have too many irons in the fire. I love to do everything I do, just not enough time to do it(and I don't know how to be adequately compensated to hire help...or know how to have help....well help!) I do love making pictures, seeing something--or a part of something and interpreting it in some fashion with a camera(or cell phone). I've been embarking on several new projects at work and even personally. The iphone has brought me a sense of the sketch again, something to record quickly without feeling the pressure of having to have a finished product. I feel this will help me see the world in a more rounded way and perhaps in a way that I did 25 years ago when I was learning how pictures can really...really show us something about ourselves. I am lucky to have found this out about myself for sure. One of my side projects are these iphone sketches. These are taking on many different forms, but one series of images that is beginning to develop are looking at abstract looking small areas of reality and trying to record them. I've post a few here and expect that this series will be quite rewarding to me as I go on. These are all taken through the hipstamatic program which gives a finished/processed look to the photographs and emulates many old school photographic devices/ films and processes---they also sometimes give the appearance of age. So they are not direct recording of reality by any means, but using the tool knowing what it does is becoming a fun means of making a different type of work. How serious it becomes, well...it'll be as serious as I approach everything--serious--but fun! Photographs by Richard Sayer