Ash from the Fire

The best-written and best-edited photo blog I know is Mike Johnston's "The Online Photographer." In a recent post there, Gordon Lewis asked: "What Is Your Photographic Legacy?" Friend Fiertel sent a comment to the effect that the finished work is "ash from the fire" and that it's "the doing that matters most." I couldn't resist adding my one cent (lightly edited here).

"The doing matters most" (from N. Fiertel's comment) might as well be "Only the doing matters." As far as I'm concerned, when I die the world ends. Is there life after death? (Your life, my death.) Don't know and don't care. Making photos gets me out and about and gives life the illusion of purpose. One foot follows the other. If anybody applauds, that's gravy.