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Jeremy Green “Retrospective” 10/03/21

Four days of shooting in LA pre-dawn to post-sunset this week left me in need of some R&R. In my life experience the most idyllic setting in the lower forty-eight is Santa Barbara, less than a hundred miles up the coast from LA. I had gone to photography school there in the mid-1970’s and always felt that it was a privilege to have lived there for several years in my youth, without a care in the world, immersed in learning. The other night I was traipsing around the waterfront in the fog with a camera and a tripod, and it hit me that I was doing the exact same thing in the same place as I did forty-five years ago. In the time between I’ve had a photography career, and my camera has taken me around the world, has introduced me to some of the world’s most prominent people, and has enriched me in so many other ways. In spite of the camera gear I was lugging, this photograph was captured in deep darkness on my iPhone 12 Pro Max in just a few seconds, hand held(!). I never could have imagined such a thing when I was in my early twenties.