It's just another tomorrow

This beautiful year is nearly over and a new one is to come. One last post before it passes us by. I would like to quote David at Raptitude who said it best:

The problem with New Years-ing your resolution is that it gives undue weight to the idea of a clean slate. It seems like January 1st really does reset something, and that it’s important to harness that rare chance.

But of course, it’s just another tomorrow. There are no clean slates. Past failures will still visit you in your head, from whatever year. Bad internal dialogues will still occur, and you’ll still have the same preconceptions about yourself and the kinds of outcomes you can expect.

All of this stuff is real, and it doesn’t respect the Gregorian calendar.

There’s always a leak in the canoe. Life will always be a story of a bumbling but well-meaning protagonist, dropping balls and missing turnoffs and never quite feeling “there” yet. Get one thing right and soon something else isn’t working. That’s just a fact of life, in a universe where everything is a moving part. But the leak doesn’t need to spoil the trip, unless you believe you can fix it.

Conceptual Photography

Firstly, I'm going to showcase a couple of images that caught my eye:

By Alex Stoddard

By David Talley

By David Talley

By Geof Kern

...all of them... except possibly the last one are taken in nature... and most of them have the "fish" element featured in some or other way. These inspirations with their elements brought me onto my own mental path wanting to explore human personification of animals that are in danger...

I think if we as humans would be more careful how we treat or consume animals, or even having to put ourselves into their position, certain views would become clearer.

I am seeing humans caught underwater in a fishing net (with the fishing boat above) with no way out... possibly with forks and knives in their hands (unsuccessfully trying to use these tools to escape/ cut the ropes)... and a man closest to the lens in a suit holding the net like prison bars while looking into the camera, the camera being surrounded by other schools of fish so that the image looks like it was taken out of the perspective of a marine animal.

I think this can go somewhere... but I will need time to rethink and re-approach this concept, and possibly conceptual photography as a whole to make it mine.