I unapologetically promote my photographs on Fine Art America, and personal, limited editions advertised on this website. However, I would continue photography and other art if I never sold a thing. I am very grateful to those who have bought and collected my work and allowed me to continue photographing.

Rarely, I get an email or someone posts a comment on a photograph I have published. Usually it is a compliment on the work. Any comment at all is rare. It takes time for someone to write something, and I appreciate them as much as someone purchasing a print.

I received an email from a gentleman about the photograph here. It is a tight view of several buildings in downtown Atlanta. I captured it while sitting at a traffic light; a quick grab shot with a slightly different point of view. The IBM Tower is in the foreground. The "Batman Building" and Promenade are in view too. The bare tree limb and the hand at the crosswalk are in the original, and not AI additions.

They change names of buildings every time some real estate company purchases them. I cannot keep up with them. So, I use the local nicknames.

The IBM Tower, the most prominent of them in the photograph, is meaningful to me, as well, because I have a close friend who, in daredevil fashion, convinced the construction crew to put him in the bucket, attached to the crane at the very top, swing him out, and allow him to photograph the building top to bottom using a very antique panorama camera. That is another story for another post. He gave me a copy, a large print. My son, whom he really liked, has the photograph in his home. It is in several businesses and in the permanent collection of the High Museum ("IBM Tower Under Construction", https://lnkd.in/eJgWQzaE. Used by permission) .

The person who sent me the email had worked on the the Tower and the other buildings in the photograph. I managed to capture his work in one photo. He said he was too busy to photograph his work at the time, and he lives too far away now to visit. He thanked me for making the photo.

That means a lot to me. We take a billion or more photographs a year. I read that somewhere: kids, birthdays, our lunches, and lists of things as reminders. How many of them are memories. Here is one photograph, out of all the billions taken, which struck a nerve in someone, and it recalled a memory.

I think one reason I continue to photograph is to make memories, both for me and for others.

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