Time to shape up!

It’s been a while since I’ve posted any photographs on here, primarily because I haven’t been shooting! I’ve been totally lacking in inspiration and motivation since my A-level course and my last webdev contract finished. It also doesn’t help that I’ve been eating and drinking too much, back on the occasional smoke again, and doing absolutely no exercise whatsoever. So for the last few weeks, I’ve been finding myself feeling more and more drained.

I still try to keep on top of the dozen or so photography blogs that I read daily, and there have been some very interesting articles posted lately which have started to get me thinking again. The post by Brian Auer at Epic Edits on “My weakest area of photography”, another post here titled “Do you take or make photos?” and an interesting article at Photopreneur detailing a chat with the VP Marketing at stock library PhotoShelter are three that spring to mind.

This combined with the fact that I’ve had enough of abusing my body (I’m no spring chicken anymore!) has led me to take a firm grip of myself, give myself a good shake and realise that it’s time to take control again. So to this end, I’ve got myself a personal trainer who will be punishing me twice a week, I’ve changed my diet, stopped the fags, drastically cut down the booze, and I’m going to to force myself to get out and shoot again. I aim to get out every day come rain or shine and just shoot. Chances are that the majority of the results will be unpostable, but its the effort that it is important to me. How this will work, I’m not altogether sure. I may go out at lunch (though I’m not a fan of shooting in midday light), or I may jump on my bike after the kids have gone to bed, but the end goal will be the same. Shoot, shoot, shoot!

Above is the result of day 1 of the new regime! It’s shot on the golf course at the end of my street just as the sun was dipping below the horizon. HDR Processed using Photomatix. Incidentally the new version (3), is a vast improvement on the previous version I was using (2.5), and well worth the ££. It’s so far ahead of Adobe’s dabble into HDR in CS3!

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