This journal records my actual 10,000 hours photography; ten thousand hours of deliberate practice learning the art of photography. In particular, these journal pages contain references to:
- Images as they are made
- References to source materials
- Thoughts that might, or might not, later form part of a full post
(Hour 8,660 at start of month)
19th May 2024
Hours 8,704 to 8,7
(½h) shooting sunrise landscapes
(½h) further editing and processing yesterday’s images including the mono landscape below
18th May 2024
Hour 8,703
(½h) shooting a mixture of wildlife and sunset landscapes
(½h) editing and processing the day’s images
17th May 2024
Hours 8,701 to 8,702
(1h) editing and processing the wide angle images from the 14th that were shot on my 99ii
(1h) youtube:
- Aurelio Salvador: “Yves Tanguy“
- Lighting Mentor:
- “Power In The Grays” – a desaturated colour appears, psychologically, take on the hue of its complementary colour, e.g., a desaturated green looks as though it has a more magenta hue
- “Warm Light = Cool Shadows? Or Is It A Myth?” – shadows are black, they have a colour only as a result of a secondary light source, e.g., outside the key light source maybe the sun and the secondarly lightsource is the blue sky
16th May 2024
Hours 8,697 to 8,700
(1½h) shooting 432 wildlife images
(2½h) editing and processing images from the last couple of days
15th May 2024
Hours 8,694 to 8,696
(½h) shooting
(2½h) editing and processing images from the last couple of days
14th May 2024
Hours 8,689 to 8,693
(2h) shooting (603 images on my a1 and several more on the 99ii)
(3h) editing and processing the day’s photos
13th May 2024
Hour 8,688
Mainly driving
(½h) shooting
(½h) editing and processing
12th May 2024
Hour 8,687
(1h) YouTubes on Yves Tanguy and Kay Sage:
- Eronious Monk: “The BEST Surrealists~Kay Sage“
- ArtsWestchester: “The Surreal Worlds of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy” – Double Solitaire describes their independent pursuit of their own similar art
11th May 2024
Hours 8,685 to 8,686
(2h) updating the notes for my Surrealism presentation
10th May 2024
Hours 8,682 to 8,684
(2h) adding Surrealist photographers and more key artists to my Surrealism presentation
(½h) creating the, above, mono version of “After the Rain”. I feel that this has a good sense of depth to the image and captures the freshness of the light. However, the colour original benefits from magentas contrasting with the greens which adds interest
(½h) updating this journal
9th May 2024
Hours 8,679 to 8,681
(2h) adding new sections to my Surrealism presentation:
- Sub-genres and Key Artists
- Influence on Contemporary Culture
(1h) Amersham Mono Group by Zoom
8th May 2024
Hours 8,677 to 8,678
(2h) reviewing, restructuring and rewriting my Surrealism presentation
7th May 2024
Hours 8,671 to 8,676
(1h) creating “Petrichor”, right, an abstract capturing the smell of the forest after the rain – progressively more abstract than the images produced over the last couple of days – although the colours in this are good, I prefer the “After the Rain” of yesterday
(2½h) writing and publishing a “Tate Modern Review: Yoko Ono” post
(½h) updating this journal
(2h) Stoke Poges Photographic Club – Set Subject Print final, my entries below
6th May 2024
Hour 8,670
(½h) reading about Joan Miro in the Desmond Morris book “The Lives of the Surrealists”
- born of the 20th April – we share the same birthday
- divided his later years between Paris and Palma in Majorca
- would have been at pains to emphasise his identity as an individual artist rather than as part of (even leader of) a group
(½h) updating this journal
5th May 2024
Hour 8,669
(1h) creating the “After the Rain” picture above (actually a detail of “Chalfonts Bluebell ICM”, yesterday’s entry; “petrichor” is the word used to describe the pleasant fresh smell after rain on dry ground), and “Woodland Dining Table” and “Woodland Chef” images below from images shot yesterday
4th May 2024
Hours 8,667 to 8,668
(½h) practicing shooting landscapes with my A99II during a bluebell and foraging walk near the Chalfonts
(1h) editing and processing the day’s images including the combined straight and ICM image, right, “Chalfonts Bluebell ICM”
(½h) updating this journal
3rd May 2024
Hours 8,665 to 8,666
(1h) visiting the Workaid site in Chesham in preparation for the shoot with the BBC on the 30th of this month
(1h) creating Photoshop Actions for my large (c. A3) potential F Panel prints
2nd May 2024
Hours 8,662 to 8,664
(1h) calculating images and mount sizes for a potential F Panel using large prints of nearly A3 size
(2h) Amersham Beyond group meeting – Next Challenge #46 Natural Abstract Art
1st May 2024
Hours 8,660 to 8,661
(1h) Amersham Coffee Club where Sarah pointed out that the hands and face in my “Son of Man in Drizzle” were overly pink and looked as though they had a magenta colour cast
(1h) updating this journal including notes from yesterday’s SPCC PDI finals and all the new month admin