After two score years in software development, I am finally ready for a change. Some would call it retirement. I call it following a passion. It sounds trite, but my first camera was a box brownie. The box brownie era was long-gone – I’m not that old. On thinking back, I am surprised I managed to get a film for one. It fascinated me that something so simple could take photographs. Over the decades, I had an Olympus OM-4 and two Nikonos cameras for diving photography. My last film camera was a Canon. In the early ’90s, I developed negative black-and-white prints – an anachronism for the time. It was a great way to see photographs as interpretation, not just a reflection of reality. Now I am an ageing rambler with something to say, and show.
What held me back – apart from supporting a family that is? I need to work towards a goal over and above the pleasure of the doing. In 1995 I bought a course on travel writing. It was before the Internet, so came as reams of paper. I did not get far as I could not see how to place my work in front of an audience who would appreciate it.
Twenty-three years later, the question I ask myself has changed. What can I bring to the party that is new, fresh and of use to others? Well, first there are more places than there are people to write about them. Beauty is where you find it, and if you amble along then, you will see more than when you have all your focus on the next destination. There are many blogs on the Taj Mahal, but not so many about the many sights on the way. My blogs will be about the journey. Wish me luck and join me. Sign up for my newsletter and I will you know when I add a new post.