Working Towards the Dream

I haven’t always been one for making new years resolutions, if there’s something that needs changing I don’t see the point in waiting until January! In the last few years that has changed. It was a little over two years ago while I was sitting at home with my feet up when I decided to bite the bullet and start writing down what I’d been learning about photography… a blog was formed. While it’s grown and changed since then, the main purpose remains - to help others avoid my photographic mistakes. 

I find it interesting to look back at last years post about my plans for 2011 and see that even though I’ve flunked on a couple of the resolutions (I shot very little live music & didn’t always have a ‘proper’ camera with me), for the most part I’ve fulfilled what I set out to do. This year there is no list of resolutions, just a determination to work towards a dream… a dream that has become more clear over the past year or so:

Aside from being a scribble in my notebook, the dream is a building of my own. It will contain:

• A fully working studio
• A large gallery space, open to all kinds of artists
• A stage, with open-mic nights for emerging talent & gig space available for established bands/groups/artists
• A cafe/bistro serving good honest food and drinks
• An environment that encourages and nurtures the arts
• A roof garden

Unless I start doing the lotto and actually win, this dream of mine is not one that’ll be realised for a long time, in fact I’m probably further from it now than I was last year in a 9-to-5 office job. It’s proving difficult to make a decent living solely from photography, as expected. So while I may need to take a short-term IT contract or two in order to get by, everything I do from now on is intended to get me closer to the dream.

You’re all invited to the opening night!

More coming soon…