Hello to all those who are still looking at this blog, I am grateful for your persistence, I am heartwarmed that the blog is still being visited despite this hiccough in my ability to actually get any pictures up currently.
I hope that I can somehow get my output of photos back for all of you loyal visitors. Currently, I am stuck trying to get this sorted, so, if any of you have the expertise to help me get up and running, I will be eternally grateful. Especially, as for every day that passes and the weather allows me to venture out, and take yet more pictures, the situation is adding to a back up of galleries that remain unpublished, and my frustration grows. Since I live in isolation, the inability to resolve the situation is causing me acute frustration, and so far despite generous help from my kind Web host, we have yet to regain the link.
Setting myself targets during this period of isolation, is an essential strategy for me to exercise my brain and to avoid stagnation. I think it is this need to keep capturing images which has been with me from when I was at Technical College after leaving school, through my five years in the RAF, till I trained at the Elephant and Castle and Regent Street Polytechnic in photography and started full time with a photographic studio in Hatton Garden, I have never lost my enthusiasm to take photographs. Many of my colleagues have had careers as photographers, yet only as a job, for me it is my life, and I am lucky to have several friends who feel the same, and there is a stronger bond with them. I know many people might find some subjects I capture strange or unusual, and sometimes, that was the reason! I remember a film titled: ‘I am a Camera’ and although the full plot now escapes me, I often feel that sobriquet has resonance personally, in that my tastes are definitively catholic with a small c.
