flickr: part 365

December 31, 2011 | Filed Under flickr | Leave a Comment

so… I actually made it.

The reason why I started this project in the first place was to get out of a bit of a creative slump I was going through, and actually pick up my camera again. Did it work? Partly, For a while I was actually doing quite well, but then I started to lose interest in quite a lot of ways, but being the stubborn idiot I am, I was too proud to give up, so so many of the pictures are, frankly, horrible and/or taken with my phone.

I see people all the time going through these projects and coming out on the other end completely transformed photographers. I wish that was me, but it really isn’t. I’ve come to realise that my creativity can’t be forced, and it will come in waves, and the best thing I can do is probably not to rush it when it’s not there, and simply trust that it will come back.

That said, I am still sort of glad I did it, even though I don’t think I will point anyone towards it as proof of what I can do. It is still a document of everything I went through this year, and I can still look at any of the pictures and remember exactly where my mind was at that time.

That’s the reason behind this picture. This year has been extremely difficult in so many ways, but it has all been worth it, and I have come out on the other end, today, happier than I have ever been. I never thought I would be the person that actually got to be unreservedly happy, but I was, and I am.

Here’s to 2012. It can be nothing but amazing.