For the most part, winter is a pretty uneventful season, photographically speaking, in West Texas, especially for a guy that does quite a bit of his location portraiture outside! I’m not bashing West Texas, I’m a huge fan, but I have to work around the common brown of the ground and empty sky (I’m picky, but when you work with the guy that basically defined the Texas Sky with his photographs on a regular basis, you pick up like tendencies)! Most of my recent work has been indoors, which is a blessing in itself sometimes, because it can get oddly cold on the Llano Estacado.

While winter is uneventful in terms of shooting much outside here, it does create opportunities to get some much-needed maintenance and reflection accomplished! It really gives me time to think about this perfect storm (no, the shot above was not taken in West Texas, actually in south Texas in The Valley), a mesh of uncertainty on the same level as a great deal of opportunity! The economy is a pain right now, a real hassle for a greater part of the nation, and I’m lucky enough to notice how it’s affecting me but able to not let it take total control of how I operate my business. In fact, it is breeding creativity in pushing work where I never have before, and this fact can be attributed to my sentiments in a few posts back. I get to do what I love everyday, all day, and no matter how much the economy forces me to eat sandwiches and macaroni, it’s worth working toward a more “golden” opportunity in the future, no matter what happens (dang, I told all you I wouldn’t get “inspirational” on you again).

So on to what this is really about. You’re reading this on my newer blog, a transition I made a few weeks ago, and part of a greater transition of my presence on the World Wide Web. I’m in the process of updating my official Web site to integrate my Photoshelter (good guys over there) archive, which means that purchasing prints and other products will be an easy, efficient and effective process in the future. You’ll no doubt see changes take place on this site as well as my overall Web presence, but it’s all in mind to provide content in a more suitable fashion and style! Thanks for being patient with me.

The blog content will change somewhat in the sense that I will be adding newer content in the form of reviews, news, and hopefully guest blogs and/or interviews. I think these additions will be worthwhile since I get to teach some of the greatest students ever at Texas Tech University! However, hopefully they will not be the only ones benefiting from this content. The photoshoots and stories behind the people and places I visit will still play a heavy role in the blog, but there will definitely be more interactivity.

I hope you enjoy the changes that are to come, and I look forward to your viewing, comments and suggestions! Thanks for sticking around, and I hope you keep coming back. If you have anything in particular you would like to see on the blog, just drop me a line in the comments, or e-mail me: jerod.foster@gmail.com.

As for now, I’ll leave you with this awesome video clip of an interview on Conan O’Brien, thanks to Tom Chandler at The Copywriter Underground! The video really made my day, and I hope it makes you pause to reflect a little (in a humorous, life is good and not going to get worse kind of way of course).

More on the way!