Over the years I have had several opportunities to think about grouping images into small, themed collections.  A photography museum here in Charlotte used to have an “annuale” where photographers would submit a group of 7 photos, to be judged in the context of a theme.  I made submissions over a number of years but was always frustrated by the winners, which I deemed to be too “weird,” especially compared to my boringly “normal” photos. Pictures of subjects like roadkill and out of focus body parts seemed to take priority over what I felt was my best effort!

More recently Lenswork magazine had a feature from which they published a number of books titled “Seeing In Sixes.”  I never submitted to that one, although I probably should have.  I’d have a better shot there than trying to compete in the “art photography” world here in Charlotte.  Later editions of Lenswork have featured “Image Suites” which are groupings of similarly-themed photos but without a specific number.

While going through my images for updating my website I realized that I had also come up with a number of groupings, most of the smaller ones for decor purposes but also larger ones for books, such as the now defunct (I think) SoFoBoMo.

Even though I only have a few of them so far, I decided to add a new section to my website to show the groupings I have made.  As I go through my images I’ll likely come up with a few more – we still have some empty wall space in the house, although not much!

So here is a link to my latest website gallery Groupings.  Hopefully to be a work in process.