Today I drove to the Welsh Border to visit a good friend... I drive this road often and for months now all the countryside has been dull, brown, muddy and grey. Today was different.. everything was green, and in the course of a 45min drive I felt my spirit lift and I was suddenly thinking about images and wanting to stop the car and get the camera out. A little personal springtime.
It has made me realise how unfocused, uncreative and subsequently lazy I have been recently... To explain

Over the last couple of months I have taken 100s of pictures over several outings and to be honest have taken nothing i was happy with (In fact most of it was dismally crap!!) Out of about 400 or so i have posted 1 !!!!!! - not a good success ratio and believe me im not really THAT fussy

I started taking stuff today that i liked again and it bought into stark reality how different it felt from those failed shoots.. If your head and heart arnt in the right place you'll never create. And then the more you fail the more you try to force it and the worse the vicious circle of failing becomes.

So I'm back in the saddle and I'm off to the south coast this weekend and actually looking forward again to photography

I'm still not keeping up with messages but I've decided to stop beating myself up about it and will just do what i can (when i thought about it i realised i probably only get responses to maybe 30-40% of comments and theres good reasons why )











Also..... I've been lucky enough to be featured in a number of journals and news articles recently ( thanks you featurers ) + a -*TreesClub 'deviation of the day' which i was chuffed to bits with ) Its right up there on my agenda to learn how to use CSS (I'm a computer moron) and to begin making journals and enthusing about some of the wonderful artists here that float my boat on a regular basis










:

Member of ~Artistic-Nudes-Club *TreesClub~r72