@Gray: I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels like that way! Some of it feels sentimental and yet, it’s all random bits which seem so out of place in a story.
Permissions. Unfortunately, i’ve been trying not to look at that too hard, as I’m not making money from the use of peoples’ image and most of it is used in good context. But you did remind me that I need to take more measure in the future about getting contact information from those I shoot.

@Ben: Thanks for commenting and dropping by Ben! Yeah, I guess great minds think alike– I’m trying to test that theory out a bit with these photo/video essay posts I’ve been doing. Perhaps that’s the best that can be done for such short stories!
@Steve:You’re totally the man for producing THREE a week. Wow. That’s ambition! Video does tend to have a lot of loose bits that you can get to feeling precious about… or sentimental, even if it’s just 20 seconds. An end-of-the-week compilation sounds like a great solution.

I guess in cases like this, just let the picture do the talking. I have a few posts where I’ld just write 1 or 2 lines wrt the picture. Let the readers decide if they like it or not. If they do, they’ll comment on it like this post of yours here 🙂