Arriving Right Back Where I Started….

A couple of years ago I took the decision to move away from a self hosted WordPress site after experiencing issues due to a disappointing lack of communication from my hosting company. I hadn’t been too happy with my site for a while so although I hadn’t actually planned to migrate to a completely different platform it did feel like a positive move. But then I still didn’t particularly like the site, so a year later I moved platforms. I liked the site a bit better but found blogging there frustrating, so once again I found myself moving after a year.

This time I finally feel that I’ve achieved what I wanted, a clean and simple looking site where I can hopefully return to blogging purely for pleasure. It’s around eight years since I set up a site under the title ‘Definitely Dreaming’, it was meant to be purely a creative outlet, a place to share whatever I’d been shooting without feeling any need to conform. Somehow it evolved into to something more, which was wonderful, but now it’s time to re-embrace my original ideas – and where better to do that but right back on a WordPress site! This time I’ve chosen not to go self hosted but to have a paid plan on WordPress.com – and hopefully this version will last more than a year…

I’m not not sure where I’m heading with the blog at moment, photography will (obviously) feature, but I hope to embrace whatever makes me curious – so who knows what’s around the corner!

This black and white ICM photo was taken with the Lensbaby Trio 28* in the local millennium woods. I’ve often thought of trying to shoot an ongoing project here since it’s just around the corner from my home but I’m not great a repeatedly shooting in the same location. I admire others that do it but I soon lose interest.

*With a wide aperture of f3.5 and a the wider focal length the Trio 28 isn’t really an ideal lens for ICM but this is one of my favourite images from my ICM phase.