Long Weekend

A quick trip to the country.

A longer trip back...

A zillion/gazillion flies...

Not a clear sky in sight for star trails shots...

A summer assignment not yet completed...

Maybe next weekend?

Creativity...

One of my instructors at school told us that he came from a technical background and that when he first started out he had trouble finding his creative side. Well, I think I have the same problem. I just walked around the city and took some photos but I was just slightly (under exaggerating a lot here) under inspired... I also read a photographers interview in a magazine last week and he stated that inspiration and creativity won't just tap you on the shoulder (or even slap you in the head) you need to go out and find it...

So, everywhere I go now I will have a camera with me; no excuses!!! Not only that, I will use it! And, I will take either a roll of film per day or 100 digital images per day...

I can take a technically correct image, I even take some nice images, what I need to do is to be able to take images that you would look at and say "I need that on my wall"...

Small Things...

Cleaning up the communal garden yesterday Jacinta found a young praying mantis. I placed it on the Frangipani plant and tonight when I got home he was still there. One of my summer assignment projects was to take an image of something small... This guy should do it, I just hope I got a sharp image on film as well...

Summer Fun...

Pick a windy day, as cool as you dare but warm is good too... Take your kite, a trick ski, some gear and board shorts... Away you go!!!

Definitely need to put this on my list of things to try...

Shocking photo taken with my mobile phone...

New Stuff...

2008! Woo Hoo! Another year starts and we are all off again with resolutions to make our lives, and the world, a better place. So what happened to the ones we made last year? Cinta is the only person I know who has made a New Year resolution and stuck to it for the whole year, in part because she told everyone about it and that created the extra energy to remain committed to the process.

So with that in mind, I'm about to tell you my New Year resolution...

• Become an exceptional photographer and win the annual student award
• Enter 2 national photography competitions (I want to win at least one of them but this is a goals list not a dreams list)
• Learn to see creatively
• Lose 15kg and improve my fitness so that I have the energy to be creative
• Make enough money from photography for it to pay its own way (and then some)
• Widen my circle of friends, genuine friends, the ones you can just turn up and have a coffee without calling first (not that you wouldn't call first)...
• Print this list and put it where I can see it so that I don't just forget about it when it gets bumped of the bottom of the blog list!
• Put some money away for a rainy day
• Laugh more, cry less and stride confidently forward into the future!

Happy New Year to all, may it be the best one yet...