Hello everyone. Today I’d like to talk a bit about posting on this blog, or rather my lack of it. Over the past couple of months everyone on this planet has been hit with monumental shocks and disturbances. The pandemic has altered how we see and interact with the world. Including how we interact with other people. One of the ways that it hasn’t affected me is that I’ve been one of the lucky few that’ve been able to maintain steady employment throughout the various lockdown’s here in Halifax. This means that my daily routine has had very little change. Over the past few months I’ve chosen to focus on other things such as my own physical well being (anyone else been doing extra fear motivated workouts?) By choosing to work on my physical health I’ve been incredibly focused and productive on the photography side of my life, but the writing and blogging side of my life has been put on the back burner. Today I’d like to change that by structuring myself to blog once a week. It’s not the same as the daily blogging schedule I once had, but it’s a start towards becoming a person that regularly posts updates about my photographic life. Over the past couple of months I’ve forgotten the importance of writing down my thoughts, and after staying away from the task for so long I find that when I do it I remember how much I enjoy it. Another thing that I’ve forgotten to do is to remind myself that photographs sitting on a hard drive are nothing but ones and zeros. They have no effect on anyone. They have an effect on me, they’re mostly made for myself, but I need to remind myself that the things that I enjoy are also things that other people enjoy. The act of sharing the things that I like while going out into the world with my camera makes me a better human being. I could hoard all of this information to myself, but that’s not right. A scientist can’t hoard information that could help save lives, and an artist can’t hoard information that could help to educate other artists. So with that I’d like to leave you with some of the fractions of a second that I’ve found to be worth remembering during this pandemic. I hope you enjoy them, and as always I hope you have a great day and stay safe.
