My first lame attempt at blogging occurred sometime in 2005. That was when I was working in downtown St. Louis while Busch Stadium was being built for the St. Louis Cardinals. My personal photo project started quite innocently. One day, three or four months after the construction began I went down to the site on my lunch hour and took a few pictures. This was before I bought a digital camera and those first few shots were on my old Canon film camera. I went back a few days later and took more pictures.
In October of 2004 I bought my first Digital Rebel and by then I was going to the construction site every few days to take pictures. By opening day in April of 2006 I had nearly 788 shots of the construction process. I printed most of these photos in 4x6 format and have three huge three-ring binders of photos in chronological order. I uploaded each batch to my dotphoto account as well as saved the high rez files onto disc.
As I was shooting, printing and uploading pictures every few days or weeks I would share them with friends and family. Many people told me I should try to "sell" them. Well, to whom? In fact I found the email address of someone at HOK Architects and emailed that person a link to the pictures. I got a nice reply that said basically: "Nice pictures. Thanks for sharing."
The problem with "selling" -- and the correct term is "licensing"-- these pictures is that I know the Cardinals, their architects and construction companies hired professional photographers to document the construction. Added to that, I wasn't the only civilian documenting this project with pictures. I saw a lot of people with point and shoot digicams on the site and I'm sure these pictures are unfortunately floating around in countless computer hard drives and cyberspace.
So, if you're interested here's the link to my collection.
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