Twenty Twenty Two
Since 2012 i've been uploading an annual parting image. A personal reflection of the year - this is my 2022 image taken from the end of my street, where it meets the water, looking southeast towards the mouth of the Derwent River.
It might be a seemingly boring image, but there is a bit happening if you look closely - two middle of the fleet Sydney to Hobart yachts battling for position on the horizon as they travel around South Arm before they head up the Derwent - two open-water swimmers in the foreground heading towards Taroona Beach - blue sky, something that's been missing in the last few months. There was a flock of birds flying across the water in single file - not sure if they missed the framing as I captured the image, or they have just blended into the structure of the water surface.
An observer, watching things from a distance - that's a bit like how this year has felt. A year that was, for me and my family, dominated by covid. The fear of the pandemic and trying to avoid catching it; catching covid, each of us becoming infected in succession like dominos whilst in lock down; recovering from covid, learning that it takes much longer than just a few weeks to function normally again; family reinfection; repeat ...
Renovating. Working. A holiday to Melbourne. Swimming. Other aspects to normal life that kept me busy through the year.
Photography took a back seat in 2022. I did rediscover and processed many forgotten images taken over the last decade. My Flickr feed was therefore a mix of new and old images. My stats fell just shy of 19 million views before the arrival of the new year.
Happy new year. May 2023 be a happy one for us all.
Twenty Twenty Two
Since 2012 i've been uploading an annual parting image. A personal reflection of the year - this is my 2022 image taken from the end of my street, where it meets the water, looking southeast towards the mouth of the Derwent River.
It might be a seemingly boring image, but there is a bit happening if you look closely - two middle of the fleet Sydney to Hobart yachts battling for position on the horizon as they travel around South Arm before they head up the Derwent - two open-water swimmers in the foreground heading towards Taroona Beach - blue sky, something that's been missing in the last few months. There was a flock of birds flying across the water in single file - not sure if they missed the framing as I captured the image, or they have just blended into the structure of the water surface.
An observer, watching things from a distance - that's a bit like how this year has felt. A year that was, for me and my family, dominated by covid. The fear of the pandemic and trying to avoid catching it; catching covid, each of us becoming infected in succession like dominos whilst in lock down; recovering from covid, learning that it takes much longer than just a few weeks to function normally again; family reinfection; repeat ...
Renovating. Working. A holiday to Melbourne. Swimming. Other aspects to normal life that kept me busy through the year.
Photography took a back seat in 2022. I did rediscover and processed many forgotten images taken over the last decade. My Flickr feed was therefore a mix of new and old images. My stats fell just shy of 19 million views before the arrival of the new year.
Happy new year. May 2023 be a happy one for us all.