the idea behind the pictures

While I get my finances and other bright ideas i keep coming up with in motion-slowly. I have a bit catching up to do with life, friends and culture that I had to ostracise whilst doing the NCTJ.

When I go around on my mini trips more often than not it happens to be London or the South from where I have just moved away, I take pictures on my trusty blackberry. I'm not a professional like some of my dear friends, who have a real eye for a good/great picture.

But I'm not bad-even though i say so myself-in framing and capturing a good picture. I find pictures fascinating, they are the documented proof i feel of our daily lives.

I was listening to the radio-to keep up with the current affairs and nourish my starved brain of some knowledge, an interesting fact cropped up about our memory and how the brain tends to 'delete' memories to accommodate the new memory one would have just acquired.

Its not an entirely proven fact, but was very interesting to listen to. Not sure it will explain, short term memory loss, but its definitely a good excuse to keep under the hat when I forget something!

Somehow that fact
seemed to validate my obsession of taking random photographs. This picture is one of mine and a recent favourite! I was standing out the Tate gallery about to walk towards the tube station when I thought 'this looks like a great shot'.

There are more randoms ones. I'm sometimes told off by a really good friend of mine, for taking pictures of sign boards! Well my reasoning behind that is so the viewer-apart from myself can Geo- position themselves-mentally- to give them a feel that they are ACTUALLY there.

Besides its for my memory, to remember where I have been- Hehehe. I think its important, especially with more study and revelations that more people are being diagnosed with dementia-scary thought to lose someone that way. not to remember anything-eeks :s

There have been some sad episodes in my life, and thanks to the pictures I had taken prior to those events, I have captured forever that memory and whatever happiness there was. So the camera, in my opinion, the best invention ever.

Before that, the amazing portrait painters-some excellent examples are housed in the National Portrait gallery-so life like-forget HD! they didn't need that in the 17th-18th century. Wish I could paint like that.

Well at least I can draw comic characters-that'll do for me doodling.

2010, Big Freeze...World in debt..

Welcome to 2010! A decade into the 21st century, "where has time gone" was the most popular quote that friends and family were using towards the tail end of 2009. If i knew how to slow time or even the ability to add a few more precious minutes when struggling to complete all the tasks one sets, I bet the world would be in a much worst state than it already is- I'd imagine.

I must say what a way to start the year too. A nation brought to its knees by heavy snow and ice with temperatures plummeting to a very Arctic minus 22! It was nice to have a bit of snow during the Christmas and New Year holiday's as most of us were probably slumped in front of the television and not really had much plans to go out. There may be some who may have seen the snow as a blessing- an excuse not to go visit the in-laws perhaps (cheeky grin).

Well how the month of January is whizzing by. Mm I'll be done and dusted with NCTJ training soon-SHRIEK!!!!! Shoved into the big wide world. 'Finally' my dad would say.

I think I have also finally made plans to just travel around the British isles and include Scotland and Ireland in to that or yes and Mythical Wales!

A tour round Devon, Cornwall, Brighton and other bits of Sussex while I'm still here in the South. Possibly make a ferry trip to Belfast or Dublin or Both. MM I'm really considering just getting a map and doing things at hock, as if there something that my early life has thought me, even the best laid plans never seem to turn out as you want it to so whats the point of planning everything to the finest detail, raw adventure! it should make for interesting video blogs.

So excuse me for the next 3 weeks while I sit in solitary confinement and be a boffin! Stocked up with coffee, tea and crisps.