The Maid of the Mist tour boat at Niagara Falls (Canadian side, 2019.) Fuji X-T20, 16-50mm Fujinon XC lens.

My regular readers (all five of them) will probably have noticed that my posts have been a bit sporadic of late. As I write at the foot of every post: "I post every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday unless life gets in the way." Well, life has been getting in the way.

I began blogging in August, 2011, wrote six posts in a row, and quickly realized I couldn't keep up that pace because of my lack of personal discipline and the realization that it took more time than I was willing to commit to. So I shelved the whole thing for eight years.

In December, 2019 I restarted the blog and made a commitment to post three times a week. I've mostly kept that promise, with more  than 775 original posts over a span of six years.

But now, however, life is indeed getting in the way more intrusively in three ways:

First, I'm not making new photographs. I don't find Knoxville to be a very fertile place to make the kinds of pictures I want to make. And it takes time and miles of driving to get out where the pictures are.

Second, Louise and I are both getting older. Her back is an ongoing problem, so many times when I might have been able to go out rambling with my camera I needed to stay close to help her.

Third, my own lack of mobility. Since I had the bad fall at Potter's Falls in August, 2024, walking is not enjoyable. It's hard to make my kind of photos without doing at least some walking, including up and down hills and on uneven ground.

So in short, I'm not creating new content and that makes it difficult to keep the blog going at the level I've established. 

I don't want to quit blogging, so for now I will commit to at least one post per week. I might post more often if I have something especially interesting to share.

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Photography and text copyright 2026 David B.Jenkins.

I post Monday, Wednesday, and Friday unless life gets in the way.

Soli Gloria Deo -- For the glory of God alone.

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