Many, many years ago I was into developing and printing black and white. I was just ok at it but really enjoyed it. Over the years photography kind of fell away until I even stopped buying disposable cameras. A couple of years ago I bought a Nikon D40 with the idea it would get me back into photography...Well its been a slow go getting the passion back....but the murmurs are growing louder...

Although the morning was young, the hazy mirage was up.The uncertain air that magnified some things and blotted out others hung over the whole gulf so that all sights were unreal and vision could not be trusted; so that the sea and land had the sharp clarities and vagueness of a dream. Thus it might be that the people of the gulf trust things of the spirit and things of the imagination, but they do not trust their eyes to show them distance or clear outline or any optical exactness. Across the estuary from the town one section of mangroves stood clear and telescopically defined, while another mangrove clump was a hazy black-green blob. Part of the far shore disappeared into a shimmer that looked like water. There was no certainty in seeing, no proof that what you saw was there or not there. And the people of the gulf expected all places were that way, and it was not strange to them. A copper haze hung over the water, and the hot morning sun beat on it and made it vibrate blindingly.

John Steinbeck, The Pearl