‘ On Average ‘ …..

…… I edit and save approximately a hundred photos a month! I undoubtedly take far more photos than I keep because not everything is worthy of either editing, or saving. That said , there are sometimes occasions where I might take less photos but edit and save more because there will be more than one way of editing a scene or displaying it in a particular format. On average it usually works out near a hundred images at the end of the month all the same.

When I first moved here to North Dorset I attended a talk by a prominent local photographer who lives in a nearby village. Her ethos was to get out at dawn or dusk ( or both ), take her camera and her dog, and walk for about 15 minutes in the locality and then take her photographs for the day. She captured incredible local scenes and I made it my goal to try and achieve similar results, I enjoyed both the photographs she’d managed to capture and her ethos, it highlighted the fact that one didn’t have to travel far for great scenery and that, sometimes, we fail to look properly at what’s under our noses.

Now, some ten years later, I find that I’m having to travel further and further afield to find images that appeal to me. The image above being a good example of the current situation I find myself in. We just don’t have heather in North Dorset, beautiful as the area is it just doesn’t support the soil and conditions required and so an hour driving, an hour at location and another hour to get back home was the order of the afternoon. Hard work for what amounted to no more than just over a dozen images, more than half of which will never see the light of day, not because they aren’t worthy but because they are repetitious. There are only so many shots of heather in one location that might spark an interest in the viewer once the initial novelty of colour, form and repetition have been exhausted.