Bye Bye 2024 - Hello 2025 - Bye Bye Blog?

It’s that time of year when I write a lengthier than usual post reviewing the year just passed and contemplating the year ahead.

2024 was the 10^th year of this photo-blog. By way of celebration, I promised at least one post per month, and I achieved that, though, to be honest, it was becoming a bit of an effort by the end. I only succeeded because I fell back on photos from my phone. Not least because I can usually whip out the phone from the back pocket of my jeans to capture something I’ve just seen as I go about day-to-day life, whereas, as an amateur photographer, I don’t always have my “proper” camera with me. A phone camera has meant a greater number of photo opportunities but, at times, poorer quality photos.

 

I am mindful of the increasing effort of producing monthly posts and the varied quality of 2024’s images. Also, 10 years is a long time to keep a blog running.

Can you see where this post is headed?

 

Dewy December primroses

2025 is the year I am going to stop routine posting to this blog. I’m not, necessarily, going to stop posting here altogether – never say never – but I’m not going to aim for regular, or even semi-regular posts. Photos that I am particularly pleased with for technical or artistic reasons, or because an event or location is special as far as I am concerned, may still get uploaded here, but only when the time is right.  

So, feel free to browse past posts to this blog, there is a wealth of images (and words) here, but please don’t hold your breath waiting for the next post – you may find you develop difficulty breathing.

 

I can’t bow out without leaving some new photos behind me. The ones here were taken at the end of 2024 between Christmas and the New Year. These words were written on 1^st January 2025. It feels like a nice, and final, coming together of 2024 – 2025.

Teasel