Photoblog to hibernate

I star­ted the pho­tob­log on Janu­ary 1 with the inten­tion of tak­ing and post­ing a photo a day. After a few weeks the post­ing became a little erratic, I would take pho­tos on a daily basis, then post a photo from each day a couple of times each week. This went quite well until the end of Feb­ru­ary when Angie became ill.

That did not stop me from tak­ing pho­tos each day, I took more pho­tos in the ten days Angie was in hos­pital than the two months before. The pho­tos were all of the dogs, which I would take into hos­pital to cheer her up (and it worked). Even after Angie got out, I still man­age to take pho­tos almost every­day. I just did not get round to post­ing them. Even after I got back to work, I was tak­ing pho­tos every day, then I real­ised that I need to select some 60 pho­tos, pro­cess them and post them.

With pho­tos, I am a bit of a per­fec­tion­ist, I want to dis­play the best image pos­sible. It would take me at around ten minutes a photo to select a photo, make adjust­ments and crop­ping in pho­toshop, before upload­ing the pho­tos to flickr, zoomr or another ser­vice and then write the post. Without ten hours to spare I decided to halt the pro­ject and stop tak­ing pho­tos for a time.

It was not till I stop tak­ing pho­tos, I real­ised how for­cing myself tak­ing pho­tos each day had changed my way of look­ing at the world, my obser­va­tions skill had improved and I was noti­cing the little things.

The pho­tob­log will return, I will make another attempt of a photo a day for a year, this time a fin­an­cial year, start­ing July 1. And blue merle bor­der col­lie fans need not worry, I am sure I can find an hour or two over the next couple of weeks to update Willow’s photo set on flickr.

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