This journal records my actual 10,000 hours photography; ten thousand hours of deliberate practice mastering the art of photography. In particular, these journal pages contain references to:
- images as they are made
- references to source materials
- thoughts that might, or might not, later form part of a full post
(Hours at start of month: 9,596
3rd April 2025
Hours 9,5
post
2nd April 2025
Hours 9,603 to 9,60
(1h) updating this journal, including the new month admin
(½h) reprocessing Barb’s favourite black dog on black background image; denoising, despotting and desaturating the background, and outputting to a higher resolution JPeg
(1½h) great discussions with Laurie Turner, Jeremy
(1h) editing and processing yesterday’s images from Whipsnade
1st April 2025
Hours 9,596 to 9,602
(4h) at Whipsnade Zoo, with my friend and mentor, Yin Wong, practicing using my new 400mm lens and shooting 616 exposures
(1½h) editing the day’s images down to 81 (long list, determined in length by the lack of time to trim further)
(1½h) Stoke Poges Photographic Club – zoom lecture by Molly Hollman: “Creative Flower Photography”
follow your photographic heros, even if you never post yourself
Instagram is a great source of daily inspiration
