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I don't know why I am compelled to take pictures, but compelled I am. Perhaps it is genetic - my father had an interest and around the house are a few boxes of glass slides from the 1950s, '60s and 'early 70s that he took, some of them very beautiful. Perhaps it is because I think we must, as humans, be creative, be it by having children, by means of our work, or some other outlet.
I'm guilty of putting up "pretty" pictures, I think, and I need to grow out of that, though some of the work in my 'stream I am, at least at times, quite proud of. A lot of it, though, could do with editing out, and may not be around for much longer.
What of the future? Well, I'd like to create something fresh, new, with meaning: judge for yourselves how I get on...
One thing is for certain, I am going to have to get braver, take more risks, expose myself more fully.
Thanks for looking at my work; and, if you contribute to Flickr / the online plethora of pictures, thanks for doing that too.
March 2012

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