4WD - Snow - Poland

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This is a GAZ, the Russian equivalent of a Jeep, although I am not sure how good they are off road. Here in Poland going off road is much simpler than it was in the UK because the soil is primarily sand-based here - no getting stuck in clay or thumping into large rocks. There are very many interesting gullies cutting through the sandy hills, but most unsurfaced driving is on miles of rather straight, flat field roads - take a look at the satellite images of Poland and you will soon see the very thin and long fields that are still prevalent here.

One of the things that I believe in is actually making the attempt to enjoy what we have and what we do. I get a bit tired listening to people disattisfied with their lives, jobs, partners, etc. and then never do anything constructive about it. Anyone can get trapped in a difficult situation, but the chances are that if you hear someone moaning it is because life has not presented them with the respect that they expected. So, on the left you will see a Soviet era housing block. Not the most magnificent of housing but they can be insulated to higher levels (as has happened here) and if you really do not like living in them there are opportunities to leave and live elsewhere. If you want to. If what you want is not to make sure everyone has to listen to the sound of your voice.

Mall Meeting

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Photographing people in natural settings is hard, and you often end up with an image much different to the one that you planned. That is not a problem if you are interested in art, but it could be if you are interested in skill. For art it is essential to find those ways to slip into the unexplored without a roadmap, while skill is about producing a predefined piece of work. Therefore, for art to end up with the unexpected is the ideal outcome, but in terms of craft skill then you have failed to produce the intended product.

The RAF Roundel 1

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It seems such an alien process for people to use what is around them, the focus of society, education and business is 'a special tool or product for each individual purpose'. This image shows 2 plates and a bowl on a table, and while I could have drawn the lot from scratch it would have ignored one of the uses of a camera - to capture variations in light and shadows.

I am working on another version of this image, with a bigger roundel shape. I am hoping that someone will appreciate an RAF roundel type image that is not the standard type of image found with these things.

Red Shoes & Wine

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I am fascinated by the things that make life good, focusing on those things that suit us rather than what we believe we should suit us by society's standards. To get away from the bland of normality, for normal is the average and if we chase normality we are saying we are nothing special. We need to find us, because it is only by finding us that we can contribute our essential worth to society.

To find us we need to experiment. We need to push those boundaries so that we can discover in which directions we can find us and those which we do not exist. But we need to overcome fear, first to experiment and second to admit the truth that we are something away from the average.