New Journal Entry - Just Another Day...

miketaylor01

I just posted a new journal entry. Kinda different than my past ones. Go check it out if you have a few minutes and let me know what you think. Here is the link. It is the last entry on the page.
http://www.foveonx3.org/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewforum&f=7

pathfinder

miketaylor01 wrote:

I just posted a new journal entry. Kinda different than my past ones. Go check it out if you have a few minutes and let me know what you think. Here is the link. It is the last entry on the page.
http://www.foveonx3.org/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewforum&f=7

Once again very interesting reading, Mike.

wxwax

Mike, a great journal entry. Please keep finding a way to express those emotions, I gotta believe it's a good thing for you. And thanks for giving us just a small insight into what your world is like right now.

Take care of yourself.

Sam

miketaylor01 wrote:

I just posted a new journal entry. Kinda different than my past ones. Go check it out if you have a few minutes and let me know what you think. Here is the link. It is the last entry on the page.
http://www.foveonx3.org/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewforum&f=7

Sometimes the hardest thing to overcome in a situation like you find yourself in is the mental one. Do what you need to do, talk to who ever, to keep your balance. Becoming desensitized is normal self protection mechinisim of the mind.

I wish you and all your fellow soldiers the best.

Sam

miketaylor01

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Thanks to everyone who took the time to go take a look at my new entry. This was a hard one for me to put into words. Im glad I did though and im glad it might have helped some of you understnad what being here is like even if just a little bit more.

I was wondering though if anyone had any comments on the photos themselves though. I love doing this journal, but it seems like most of the time I never get any feedback on the pictures themselves, just the journal as a whole. If anyone had any thoughts, good or bad, about the pictures themselves I would love to hear them. I can only get better if I know if what I am doing is right or wrong. Phtography wise of course. Thanks again.

ian408

Mike,

Thanks for writing what you feel. Valuable stuff to me.

As always, your pictures are revealing.

Ian

lynnma

miketaylor01 wrote:

Thanks to everyone who took the time to go take a look at my new entry. This was a hard one for me to put into words. Im glad I did though and im glad it might have helped some of you understnad what being here is like even if just a little bit more.

I was wondering though if anyone had any comments on the photos themselves though. I love doing this journal, but it seems like most of the time I never get any feedback on the pictures themselves, just the journal as a whole. If anyone had any thoughts, good or bad, about the pictures themselves I would love to hear them. I can only get better if I know if what I am doing is right or wrong. Phtography wise of course. Thanks again.

Mike I think what happens is we are so involved with your journal that for me anyway the shots take second place. They are so revealing and surreal to me I can't critique them. Mike.. time and time again I say to husband of Lynnma (we are pretty old now) how can they come back.. how can they sit in this diner with its bacon smells and bright lights and wholsesome fat girls after where they have been.. the emotional shock must be mind bending. I think one of the great burdons of being overseas in a combat situation (like what the hell do I know) is just that.. you can never be the same again.. you can't unlearn what you know.. I guess you have to try to weave that into a new part of yourself and try to make it an inrichment.. how on earth one does that who knows. I'm not saying this for you really, I'm struggling to understand as well.
Thank you so much for sharing these deep and major issues Mike. How can we ever thank you enough... all of you boys out there whose lives are forever changed.. whose America is forever changed and whose small town will never be the same again. You struggle with your life there, we struggle with your life there.
Stay safe Mike and keep writing and sending pictures.. maybe some of the others can critique them ... I certainly cannot.:cry

miketaylor01

Holy @#$%
Umm just to let anyone who might try to go check out my journal know.. the site might be down for a little while. Apparently someone put a link to my journal up on a very popular blog site called instapundit.com and over 250,000 people in the last 48 hours have tried to log onto my journal. Needless to say the server hosting the foveonx3 site crashed. I tried to get onto there after finding out from the guy who runs the site what happened and still cant get on to it. He says he is working on it, but it is a very small server and was never intended to support that kind of traffic. Since I couldnt get on there I decided to check my smugmug site to see how many hits I have gotten this month and couldnt believe it when it said 70,000. Just curious if anyone can explain how the hit system works to me. From the explanation on the page each one of my journal evtries would create an equal number of hits on smugmug for the number of pictures linked to smugmug. Is that correct? Otherwise I dont really understand how it works at all.

Also, thanks for the kind words. It helps alot.

wxwax

Hey Mike, what's up man? How you doing? You OK?

Dee

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miketaylor01 wrote:

I just posted a new journal entry. Kinda different than my past ones. Go check it out if you have a few minutes and let me know what you think. Here is the link. It is the last entry on the page.
http://www.foveonx3.org/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewforum&f=7

Usually I can just read your journal entries without signing in...