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Here it is my weakest link, my deepest confesion, the truth behind my madness. I have a problem completing things.

Where, you ask, does this confessional come from? Well I read this blog post by Brian Auer on Epic Edits, My Weakest Area of Photography. This post was exactly what the title says, his weakest points in his photography and how he is going about to improve on them. This got me thinking about my weakest point in photography and life but that is to deep for this blog and we will stick with photography.

Post Processing

I would say this is one of my most inconsistent parts of my photo process. I go out and take hundreds of photo’s and instead of taking them off the camera right away and starting the sorting, processing and ratign of my photo’s I let them sit there and forget about them for a while. This is bringing me to a mountain of images that I either forget I have or get overwelmed with when I try to start the actual process.

How I am going to fix it

Organize – Getting To grips with image management

Organize – Getting to grips with image management 2

Organize – See it through

Printing Photo’s

This on is along the same lines as the previous in that it is a procrastination issue as well. I am alway saying that I need to print my photo’s be it as a framed photo for my wall or as a photobook that I can put on my coffe table for myseld and others to enjoy.

How I am going to fix this

Posting online

I have my photoblog on photoquarium that I post to in spurts but not consistent enough. Also I need to post to my flickr account as well as othere sites like vazaar. I need to get my photo’s more exposure and critisism, I am not sure how I can progress and get better if I don’t get opinions on my work. Maybe I should spend more time in places like photophlow where I can chat with people and get my photo’s critiqued there.

Well its spring time, the ground is turning from white to brown and eventually to green. Everything seems to be coming alive so I had better follow suit. I think its time for a spring time resolution.

I am going to commit to a photo challenge for the month on May. This challenge comes from Trevor and his inspirational blog PhotoChallenge.org. He has been running challenges since December and I have been following them with a regretful attitude since I never actually participate. But that is going to change this month.

May’s challenge is shooting a new object each week. The spin on this is that you need to take more than one photo of the object throughout the week which should get you to think about how to change things up for each photo.

The first weeks object is Beverage this should be a fun and simple one to start with. Also I am going to cheat a bit since I have a picture I took a while ago of a Pint of Alexander Keith’s (see it here and here). I am just going to tag it with the photo challenge tags and start the rest of the week with taking different shots of beer. What a great subject and gives me an excuse to drink take photo’s of beer.

Hope you enjoy the pics should be a fun time.