Creative Juices Start to Flow

Slowly I have started to make more photographs.  Over the past few weeks this has been in short supply. However this does appear to be changing and I feel a whole lot better for that.

This revelation, if that is what it is, may come as a bit of a shock to people who know me but it is true.  My output has shrunk to a trickle but now I am able to concentrate on making photographs that I want to - without having to try and produce some photographs for the course.  I suspect that this has been responsible for the release I am feeling - lets hope so as this should be a good sign.

Tomorrow promises to be a bit of an ordeal, only a bit.  I have to have some fillings replaced and so will feel numb after that.  I have a wonderful dentist but it always fills my with a little bit of apprehension walking into the surgery.   I'm sure it will be nothing as bad as I fear.

So where to go from here?

Bradgate Park - part of the Leicestershire Landmark series

Day one of the next phase of my life.  I had hoped that this day would not have arrived for another year or so but this was not to be.  So what to do with myself?   Get better is number one on the agenda.  Enjoy the summer is another.  But these are somewhat short term.  What about beyond that?   

The answer to this is a that I just don't know.   I have so many things I want to do but at the moment I am not sure I have the motivation to try and achieve them.   This, I hope, will pass.   I have decided that I want to try and document the life of the reed warbler in my local park.  Not sure how this will progress but this is a bird that has always fascinated me.   Such a small creature yet it manages to fly from africa and nest not 200 metres from where I am sitting to nest and bring up its young.   I have also become fascinated with the effect of neon lights on the the quality of light at night.  Then of course there is my long term project about the Leicestershire Landmarks.  I have so many ideas for this that sometimes I don't know where to start,  Then there is....and so on.  What to do, when to fit them into my life.  Perhaps there is life after the course after all.  Only time will tell.

Another Night Out...

Just got back in from another night shoot.   This sounds really grand but the reality is that I have just spent a couple of hours making photographs in empty fields and road verges - the exotic life of a photographer???  I think not.

As I write this I am uploading the files - in fact it has just finished.  Not sure what they will be like - this is the exciting bit.   The only nature I saw tonight was a rather flat hare which had had an argument with a lorry and lost.