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As it's a new year, I've finally got around to updating my website and other social media images to include Underword (my most recent poetry collection, published at the end of 2022 - and yes I realise it's taken me a whole year to update things: procrastination is my super power).

As ever, the process is always more complicated than I expect. 

First, I take multiple photographs. Then I whittle them down to the ones I like best. Then I have to pick one that works for the website layout, deal with what ever update changes the hosting platform has introduced since I last updated the infrastructure and upload my chosen photo. This in itself can take a long time and the photo that appears to work best is not always my favourite.

To complicate matters still further, the image that works on the website, doesn't always work for Facebook, or YouTube, or... You get the picture (or rather pictures).

I therefore have to repeat the process for every media site that I update.

Anyway, it's now done for 2024. To give you a flavour of the process and the choices it involves, here are some photos that I've used for this year's makeover.

Looking Forward - Looking Back 10 Years!

January 2023

So, another year, another start-the-year blog post. Except, this time round, as promised last January, it has to be a bit special. I started this primarily photographic blog ten years ago (or it will be ten years come February, because my first ever post was Saturday, 8^th February 2014).

So, another year and now a 10th Anniversary blog post. Who’d have thought? Well, I certainly didn’t back in February 2014. Indeed, I worried whether the blog would make it through 2014. If truth be told, last year I wondered whether I’d make it through 2023. I only managed ten posts last year – the lowest level of posting in the ten years this blog has been running. “Why was that?” you ask.

February 2023

Well, actually, you probably don’t, because, let’s face it, this blog and its owner don’t exactly have influencer status, which may be one of the reasons I felt, last year, that both I and the blog were running out of steam. I also had a lot of “stuff” going on and, whilst I was still taking photos, many of last year’s photos were phone pics. The pics made it on to my personal Facebook page, but few were posted here because, well, you know, quality.

 

So, as this is a post in which I look back and look forward. I’m going to make a thing of 2023’s phone pics. On and around the text of this post you will find twelve photographs taken on my phone in 2023, one for every month of the year just gone. The link going forward is that I undertake to post at least twelve posts in 2024, one for every month of the year to come. I may post more, who knows? I certainly don’t. You can, however, expect to find a post for each month of 2024. There will, hopefully, be new photos, but there may also be photos from the archives. It’s going to be a proper ten-year anniversary celebration.

 

March 2023

As they say, watch this space...

April 2023

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