Duckling in the Royal Castle Park

Well it’s time to face it, or rather publish it. I’m not going to win any prizes for the most frequently updated blog, always pushing interesting posts on recent events. I suspect mindovermadness.org have slid into the “rarely-updated” category it shares with at least 90 per cent of all other blogs. While I seriously love writing and using words, writing is for me, an all-out process,  demanding, taxing and time-consuming. Also, since last November my life has been about two things, 1. The missus, and 2. Photography.  In fact the only part of this site that really have been more or less frequently updated is the photo galleries.

Now, I don’t really shed any tears over my “failure” as a blogger. Been there, done that, simply another experience added to my CV. That said, mindovermadness.org will be up and running, and chances are that I will change the layout and style of the site to a more photo-bloggish kind, whatever that is. I also cherish the ability to write a post every now and then, regardless if I’m the only reader ;) I hope to use this domain to show both some of my “serious” photo work, and some laidback, private stuff. I spend a lot of time making images, and I simply want to be able to show some of them to people, yet, Flickr and similar does not really tempt me. Especially not when I have a domain. I could perhaps gain a larger audience, but let’s be frank, my photographic adventures are not likely to win any prizes anytime soon.

I photograph because the art and trade fascinates me immensely, and, well to quote Gary Winogrand more or less correctly “..to see how something looks like photographed.”. It’s also that one little thing….far from everything you do, allow you to clearly see the improvements you make. That is one great big plus on behalf of photography in my book. You can (hopefully) see that your skill and vision improve! I think everyone should be able to treat themselves with the feeling of accomplishment every once in a while.

The path to the level of technical and compositional quality I want to master, is long, but still I am confident that even if I haven’t got the greatest skill or ability, I will be fairly technically savvy and accomplished in time. Likely not an artist, but at least a decent photographer. Given my present life situation, time is what I got a lot of and using at least some of it for positive things soothe my consciousness. Besides, we all need passions in our lives, otherwise everything gets pretty dull. Nothing is better than having something you feel is rewarding to focus your energy on.

Now, I’d like to wish my readers a nice summer and a good time. When I’ll be back writing here remains to be seen. New galleries will be added regularly when I have something I’d like to show people.

Yours (whomever you may be),