Harry's Blog

I love photography. It's been a hobby of mine for just over a year and I finally feel like I'm starting to get to grips with it. Give me half an hour on my own with a beautiful landscape and all my gear I reckon I can knock out some great images.

But that's not often how I take pictures. Normally I'm out for a walk with my beloved wife and children, hurriedly taking snaps of the scenery then running to catch up.

Hence my Flickr portfolio was full of mostly rubbish. I know a lot of my pictures aren't that great and it's because I wasn't being serious about my hobby. And of course the other side of the coin is that I'm not spending quality time with my family while out and about.

So I'm going to get more serious about my photography hobby now. From now on the camera stays at home if I'm out for a walk with my family. But I'm also going to dedicate some time to my hobby and go out alone with the intention of snapping some gorgeous photographs and trying to learn to get much better at it.

Today I've had a dramatic cull of pictures on Flickr. This morning there was something like 1200 on there. This evening there's just over 400. A lot of rubbish has been deleted. Also some of the shots that remain have been cropped or fixed in other ways.

Hopefully the pictures I upload to my account will be the ones that deserve to be up there and show how I'm progressing, rather than just the previous way of doing things where I'd upload anything I had taken that day. My Flickr account is going to be about my photography hobby from now on and not just some album of mediocrity.

The page may still be full of photos which you think stink. Fair enough. They will be pictures that I personally like - so comments about what's wrong with them should really help me learn.