Its that time of year when its customary to look back - and forwards - so here goes.
I've made a few images of which I'm quite proud this year, perhaps five or six. Some of them are included in the montage above.
I took a different approach to my flower photography, eschewing the shallow depth of field and 'environmental' backgrounds (i.e. whatever happened to be in-shot) of previous years, opting for plain white, or occasionally black. I even put my pretensions aside and produced some colour images. In the process, I think that I've moved things forwards.
On the other hand, my landscape photography almost ceased to produce anything usable, with a late revival just before Christmas at Shapwick.
I also tried, without much success, to document events in Liverpool, as we cleared my father's house of his belongings.
Regarding this blog, I wrote one or two posts that I'm pleased with - the one about SAW, the series about Sony's strategy spring to mind - and a whole lot of pointless verbiage besides.
So, what about next year - 2014, that is?
Well, for one thing, I'm going to stop writing text to post with my images just because I feel I have to - if I have an image to post and nothing to write, then I won't write anything, aside from a short description of the image itself.
I'll try to do some more landscape photography, and get my light tent out more often.
But what about the flower photography? Have I taken that as far as I can? It actually forms the majority of what I do at the moment. My instinct is that I haven't, there's more mileage in it next year, but I really don't know what form that will take. I guess that I've a couple of months to figure that one out.
PS: Coming soon - the Williams Music Awards 2013.
