Exercise is important, a few weeks ago I started thinking I should improve my fitness and started spending 5 - 15 minutes per day doing something that would improve me in some way. Now 15 minutes isn't long and you are probably wondering what the point is if that is all you are going put into it.

Well it seems you can achieve a fair bit. From having a hard time doing 20 simple Hindu squats without serious heavy breathing I am now doing 80 squats and feeling good at the end of it. And I didn't practice squats everyday.

The same goes for exercising your photographic seeing, do just a bit a day even when you have no projects on and it will be easier to get into seeing as an artist does.

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You are thinking American flag right, to my wife it is just more ironing.

Excuse my abscence, no excuse really, just abscent.

The word excuse makes me think how strange the English language can be, difference in sentence changes pronunciation and meaning.

Pictures can have the same perculiarities. Put them in context of different projects, different times, different viewers and they can have different meanings.

Pictures are strange things.

Errata Editions have their first 4 books on books series published and are taking orders for the limited edition set.

If in Australia I'd suggest watching the exchange rate.

I'm keen to see the books.

My drawings seem to be similiar to my photographs. To me this means I see without a lens in front of my face, I don't need the viewfinder to help me crop out the world around what I want to capture.

The flowers are the same flowers, although a slightly different angle, as those seen in the post on the 17th of October.

I had a pack of 10 polaroids, got them cheap, thought I'd shoot them off over the weekend. Can't find the 10th shot!

Tried my hand at some drawing last week.

Today I received a package from Jonathan of i like to tell stories. Jonathan asked me to send him a picture of the package when it arrived and with my wifes help we did just that.

LOL, he posted on his website today the picture I sent him, love it Jonathan, thanks.

More tomorrow on the contents of the package.

I'm open to critisism of my pictures, that is why I put them up on Stills, Pictures and Better in Print. I'm also quite happy to hear (read) from anyone here or redbubble or a number of other places I have put up pictures in the past.

I value the time you spent to contact me, to comment, whether positive or negative, short or long. The comments I value most are those considered ones that tell me how the picture made you feel or how you think I wanted you to feel but did not succeed. Those comments that suggest changes to a picture in context of what you think I was trying to do are also worthy of my time reading them.

Thank you to all those people.

That's the warm fuzzy bit, now to those comments that I am indifferent to. I'm not so keen on the ones that tell me how you would of taken my picture. You see, it is my picture and while it may not be perfect it is my picture making exploration taking place and not yours.

You are welcome to tell me rightly or wrongly whether my pictures are good or bad but I'd rather you tell me if they hit any mark. Don't tell me how you would of taken my picture, take your own and send it to me to consider how much better it would of been your way.

21-11-08 update: you can tell me how you would of taken the picture, what a lot of drivel this is.

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