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Is there anything more frightening than an empty page?
As a photographer, this is nothing I ever encounter. Simply picking up a camera and using it to frame the world is enough to get my creative juices flowing. So tonight I'm trying something new.
Writing.
For the sake of writing.
I spent the day today slogging away at my online course. Currently undertaking a unit called Search library and information databases. Database research sounds really dry but it's actually something I find interesting. A puzzle that has many routes to the answer if you will? Often the question you are trying to answer when researching a database just throws up more questions. I like this. Could I do it as a full time job? Not so sure. And the wormhole that can be opened up is mind boggling. So if I was for example to try and undertake a PHD, the discipline would be enormous. Hence trying to write, because.
Sitting here in my north facing study, I get to watch the light all day, during lockdown anyway. Something of a blessing or is that a curse? Anyway the light this time of year is worth waxing lyrically about. Yet it's not something I get to do, much. As I'm writing this, the light is soft and even. If we were allowed outside I'd be out there with either my Hasellbald, or my Monorail 5x4 cameras. Trying to make some good pictures. Sadly this is not the case. I have a friend in South Australia, who lives on the coast. Has 3 dogs and is outside every day. He still manages to make many good images. As well as write prolifically.
Other friends are walking and photographing too.
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So really there's no excuse. I have been trying to find good pictures outside in my own yard. I'm certainly paying attention to the garden as buds begin to sprout. Our Apricot tree is looking its healthiest since we landscaped the garden in 2019. Perhaps this is more about the drainage issues themselves, another ongoing niggle that has been compounded by the lockdowns during the pandemic here in Melbourne Australia.
But make pictures, usually in black and white, I do. I have one roll waiting to be processed and one recently processed. Initially I was not moved by what I had captured. For me though, time is the real measure. If I revisit the contact sheet in a month, 6 months a year, two years perhaps the hidden gems will reveal themselves?
Craig Mod in Japan has been churning out work despite the situation there.
He is about to publish another book. I managed to get in early on his first book, at a good price. Will I go for round two? Not so sure? Maybe I need to focus on my own bookmaking more? Having just finished a petite handmade DYI book of tipped in photographs, I want to keep going. Making books that is.
Also on the back-burner, another solo exhibition of silver gelatine prints. I'm awaiting a response from the local council who manage the space. It is called Sunshine Art Space, I have exhibited there twice now. In the meantime I am making the prints regardless. This process will kick in to over drive when the term break commences in about a week. Especially if we are still stuck at home in lockdown.
So, between printing in my darkroom at home, uploading to flickr and tumblr along with course work and life's daily grind, it seems I'm quite a bit busier that I expected.
Can I keep this up?
Only time will tell.