Journal of 10,000 Hours

This journal records my actual 10,000 hour apprenticeship mastering the art of photography through deliberate practice. Specifically:

• activity as it is done
• feedback received
• thoughts that might, or might not, later form a full post

(Hour at start of month 10,556)

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6^th March 2026

Hours 10,566 to 10,56

(½h) shooting first thing in the morning

(½h) editing and processing the morning’s images

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5^th March 2026

Hours 10,564 to 10,565

(½h) shooting first thing in the morning – fairly misty

(1h) editing and processing the morning’s images, including 2 B&W ICM/ Straight composites: “Horizontal Alpine Slice”

(½h) updating this journal

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4^th March 2026

Hours 10,562 to 10,563

(½h) shooting ICM images first thing in the morning

(1h) editing and processing the morning’s images, including the “Alpine Slice” ICM/ Straight composite

Constructive painting falls into two divisions:

1. “melody”, regulated according to a simple and obvious form
2. “symphony”, complex composition of various forms, subjected more or less completely to a principle form. The principle form may be hard to grasp outwardly and for this reason has a strong inner value.
   Wassily Kandinski, “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”

(½h) creating a draft “Winter 2025/ 26” post

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3^rd March 2026

Hours 10,560 to 10,561

(½h) shooting ICM images first thing in the morning

(1h) editing and processing the morning’s images

(½h) Stoke Poges Photographic Club – Lecture by Lilliana Alani

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2^nd March 2026

Hours 10,558 to 10,559

(½h) shooting first thing in the morning

(½h) editing and processing the morning’s images

(1h) updating the “100 Years of Surrealism, 10,000 hours of photography and an F Panel” presentation

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1^st March 2026

Hours 10,556 to 10,557

(½h) shooting first thing in the morning

(½h) editing and processing the morning’s images

(1h) updating this journal, including all the new month admin

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(February 2026)