Photo by my Dad, edited by me in Lightroom. As you can see, my photostream on Flickr's been dormant for the most part, keeping to one subject. Earlier this year, I thought of what I wanted to do with the stream, whether it should be about a random assortment of photos, or about telling a story with them. The idea was that anyone could view the photos as a story, a story of places I've been, of everything happening around me. For a while, it was convenient to think I could just upload daily or so photos of these events, thinking that would be the best way to keep viewers interested. But as time went on, I became bored of seeing the same old photos from the same event being uploaded. Especially from the Royal Cornwall Show, I thought that they would last a long time, but if I got fed up of having to sort through them, as good as they were in my mind, it wouldn't be very exciting uploading the same old thing every day. The worst thing happened in photography, is that it became a chore to upload photos. I wanted to do much more with them, but the process of sorting, adding tags, location, and time depleted that ability. I couldn't enjoy what I already had, which was to share the photos with people I knew, and people who want to know. It feels strange that there are so many good photos unseen on Flickr, while relatively simple photos gather lots of attention. I thought that to get a good following, you just need great photos, perhaps an almost impossible task. Then I realised it's not the photos that makes a person a great photographer, it's the insight, personality, a willingness to explore new avenues, always wanting to learn, find new tricks, discover new ways of doing things, knowing new people and be willing to help them in all ways possible as others helped you. There is no perfect photo, as a single photo can't convey the full appreciation of what a photographer can do. I'm going to explore the creative taps inside, let them loose, and see what happens.