Hey, thanks for stopping by. I've been practising photography since I was 15, I studied it at degree level and for a while after graduating I gave being a freelance artist a go. My relationship with photography has been pretty on and off for the last couple of years; I'd pick it up and put it down, trying other artistic mediums a go, did some work of an indie magazine not forgetting my mental health has been a large contributor, which has made it incredibly difficult to stay passionate. I feel like my main problem was that it had been so long that I just did photography because it was something I wanted to do and enjoyed doing that I'd stopped enjoying it.
2017 came around and I decided that this is the year I wanted to give it another go, start shooting for myself again, something I can safely say I've not really done since the first year of university (there was a lot of hoop jumping on my course and I never really felt like I was doing the kind of work I wanted to be doing if that makes sense?). So here's the start of it. I've decided that at the end of every month, I'm going to do a photo dump of my favourite images I've taken and share them with you.
Before I get started, I've got a couple of images I took back in November '16 that I never got around to posting anywhere that I'm going to share with you first.
January '17
As you can probably see, leaving the house is pretty difficult for anything other than going to work is pretty difficult unless I've got someone with me, but it's something I'm trying to get better at. The other day I was thinking back to some of my favourite images that I've taken, and a lot of them are from my first year of uni, before I was having any kind of issues with anxiety etc. I think the main difference now is that I don't have the same kind of free time to run off and just do things with friends at the drop of at hat; I work a 9-5 desk job now and don't have all the free time for shooting that university allowed. There are definitely fewer small adventures happening for me now. Maybe it's just because I've been in the same city too long. Maybe it's something else, but that's going to be something I try to fit in. Do more stuff, take more pictures. See you next month.
