A Silver!!

So, my least happy with, Camera School submission (Will Running), See: http://theonlyconsequence.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/camera-school-module-3-action.html             got me a Silver!!

Silver - Pass with merit

Our tutors identified the following areas for improvement:

• Image isn't sharp enough

Very pleased with that!!

End of first week at work.....

......but    Oh.   So.   Tired.......

New Job (Poem)

This is a poem I wrote a few years ago, which is particularly apt this week!

NEW JOB

It’s a new job.  A new story.

A new past.  A new lie.

A new one; not the old one.

A new truth to live by.

 

And the new me doesn’t worry, doesn’t panic, doesn’t fret.

Because the new me is self confident.

With no problems, as yet.

 

There is no history of slacking, no evidence of faults.

Just the new me; beginning.

Just beginning a new job.

 

In a year it may be different.

The real me may have leaked out.

In an unguarded moment, the mask might slip.

In twelve months they might have their doubts.

 

So until then I’m quiet, I’m clever. I’m new.

Until then, I fit the job description.

Until then, I’ll do.

 

 

 



New Job, New Opportunities

So, I start my new job on Monday.  5 days a week - albeit part time - with hardly any time for myself; what with Jamie being on his summer hols for the next 6 weeks!   So for the last week I have been trying desperately to clear the decks in order to allow myself some 'time off' from my self imposed 'To Do' list, so I can focus on learning my new job!

I will be at work for 3 weeks and then am off on my holiday for a week.  The plan is, that after my hols, I will get back to my writing.  Hopefully, inspiration will strike!   Although I have had a few 'inspirations' over the past few days due to the new job and associated feelings....

In the meantime I intend to concentrate on my photography; reading all the magazines and articles I seem to have acquired recently, so that my holiday snaps will be the best!!

Camera School - Module 3 - Action

I think this is the one I am least happy with - and this is the one I spent the most time trying to perfect!                                                                                             

 

I only got a Bronze for the last one (again) http://theonlyconsequence.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/camera-school-module-2-portraits.html  but will be happy with a Bronze this time!!

 

 

Lauded or Condemned?

In amongst the old magazines, I found an interview with Derek Landy regarding his 'Skullduggery' series, See: www.skulduggerypleasant.co.uk/       It was interesting to read what he had to say:

'Because Skullduggery took off, I can now be lauded and complimented.  Because I had faith in myself and in my dreams and I did not give up.  The flip side is that if Skullduggery had not taken off, and I kept on trying, I would be condemned as the dreamer who refuses to face reality.  There is nothing separating these two types of dreamers apart from the end result.  If you make it, you are lauded.  If you don't, you are condemned.  But if you're a writer you don't really have a choice.  This is what you're going to waste your life doing.'