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57/365 # Industrial injury
End of a busy week - I've got next week off so I should be jumping for joy. Instead I find myself completely knackered out physically and mentally.
It's not that work is bad, but I'm learning a lot of new stuff so I'm ready for when my boss starts her secondment, and this week we had our new person start in the office and I've been spending a fair amount of time with him to get him up to speed. He's settling in great and picks stuff up quick but the pressure for me is being the 'teacher', so to speak, and trying to explain things to him. I'm not very good at explaining things clearly, and a lot of the time I'm teaching him things that I'm not sure I know about properly and it makes me nervous. Does anyone else get like that?
And then my boss called in sick this morning so I had to switch from worker Daz to manager Daz, which is a big shift for me mentally as I'm not good at managing people or delegating. I need a bit of a run-up at it to feel comfortable doing it. Funny thing is I felt better being manager Daz without my boss there and I felt much more organized and in control than when she's in the office.
This is nothing to do with her of course, she's a great boss who really knows her stuff, but because she's so knowledgeable it's too easy to rely on her for validation when she's around instead of trusting my own judgement.
Also got a job sprung on me just after lunch - I was planning on leaving early today but it didn't happen and by the time I left work my head felt like it was going to fall off.
Which is where this photo hopefully starts to make sense.
OK, it's yet another clone shot, but it's a pretty accurate representation of how I felt by the end of today - head on the floor and empty inside.
This is not to say I'm miserable, it's just that I haven't had much time off in ages and I'm a bit burnt out.
The shot is also an homage to the great Stephen Poff, and inspired by this shot by him.
The shot itself required a bit of forward planning, unfortunately I didn't put enough into it! I had to try a couple of different positions both in the chair and on the floor before I got it how I wanted it.
Where I slipped up was my positioning in the chair - where I had to clone out my head from the shot it was obscuring part of the chair, so I had to do some very careful cloning to clone back in the detail of the chair leg and seat and luckily it came out OK.
For the head on the floor I just laid on the floor for the shot, copied my head to a seperate layer in Photoshop and went round carefully with the eraser to remove the extraneous bits 'n' pieces. Oh and I used a bit of blurring around the sharp edges to mask the ever so slightly dodgy erasing! This was on the recommendation of Disco~Stu, who came round with Chloe and Robyn for chinese tonight and caught me halfway through creating my 365 shot.
We also met up with our mutual good buddy Andy, who works in London but always come back to visit his old pals in the holidays. We had a great time and talked cameras. Lots.
I'm looking forward to getting some sleep tonight, then having a huge lie-in tomorrow safe in the knowledge that I don't have to utilise the ol' grey matter for, ooooooooh, 11 days!
Oh yeah, and Stu decided I needed Flickr Uploader so I got that tonight - it's cool! So I must say cheers to Stu for that.
Today's music was Gold Against The Soul by the Manic Street Preachers. Their second album, and underrated if you ask me, it's home to some of their best tracks like La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh) and Roses In The Hospital.
57/365 # Industrial injury
End of a busy week - I've got next week off so I should be jumping for joy. Instead I find myself completely knackered out physically and mentally.
It's not that work is bad, but I'm learning a lot of new stuff so I'm ready for when my boss starts her secondment, and this week we had our new person start in the office and I've been spending a fair amount of time with him to get him up to speed. He's settling in great and picks stuff up quick but the pressure for me is being the 'teacher', so to speak, and trying to explain things to him. I'm not very good at explaining things clearly, and a lot of the time I'm teaching him things that I'm not sure I know about properly and it makes me nervous. Does anyone else get like that?
And then my boss called in sick this morning so I had to switch from worker Daz to manager Daz, which is a big shift for me mentally as I'm not good at managing people or delegating. I need a bit of a run-up at it to feel comfortable doing it. Funny thing is I felt better being manager Daz without my boss there and I felt much more organized and in control than when she's in the office.
This is nothing to do with her of course, she's a great boss who really knows her stuff, but because she's so knowledgeable it's too easy to rely on her for validation when she's around instead of trusting my own judgement.
Also got a job sprung on me just after lunch - I was planning on leaving early today but it didn't happen and by the time I left work my head felt like it was going to fall off.
Which is where this photo hopefully starts to make sense.
OK, it's yet another clone shot, but it's a pretty accurate representation of how I felt by the end of today - head on the floor and empty inside.
This is not to say I'm miserable, it's just that I haven't had much time off in ages and I'm a bit burnt out.
The shot is also an homage to the great Stephen Poff, and inspired by this shot by him.
The shot itself required a bit of forward planning, unfortunately I didn't put enough into it! I had to try a couple of different positions both in the chair and on the floor before I got it how I wanted it.
Where I slipped up was my positioning in the chair - where I had to clone out my head from the shot it was obscuring part of the chair, so I had to do some very careful cloning to clone back in the detail of the chair leg and seat and luckily it came out OK.
For the head on the floor I just laid on the floor for the shot, copied my head to a seperate layer in Photoshop and went round carefully with the eraser to remove the extraneous bits 'n' pieces. Oh and I used a bit of blurring around the sharp edges to mask the ever so slightly dodgy erasing! This was on the recommendation of Disco~Stu, who came round with Chloe and Robyn for chinese tonight and caught me halfway through creating my 365 shot.
We also met up with our mutual good buddy Andy, who works in London but always come back to visit his old pals in the holidays. We had a great time and talked cameras. Lots.
I'm looking forward to getting some sleep tonight, then having a huge lie-in tomorrow safe in the knowledge that I don't have to utilise the ol' grey matter for, ooooooooh, 11 days!
Oh yeah, and Stu decided I needed Flickr Uploader so I got that tonight - it's cool! So I must say cheers to Stu for that.
Today's music was Gold Against The Soul by the Manic Street Preachers. Their second album, and underrated if you ask me, it's home to some of their best tracks like La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh) and Roses In The Hospital.