REVEAL Scotland

So this morning the phone rings, and it's a guy called Jamie Smith who I'd exchanged a couple of emails with a few weeks back.

Jamie runs REVEAL Scotland, a website dedicated to promoting disabled Scottish Artists, and is funded by Creative Scotland and the National Lottery. I'd dropped him a line a few weeks ago to compliment him on the site and offer some encouragement.
There's a link on the menu on the left to the site. Please take a couple of minutes to check it out. There's some fantastic content on it.

Today Jamie asked me to submit some images so they could do a wee feature on me, so I was rather chuffed and immediately said yes. The rest of today has been taken up trying to pick out half a dozen images to send in.

I'm definitely my own worst critic. 

When it comes to my own work, I invariably see the flaws. That in itself can be a good thing, I guess, because it drives you to improve constantly. It also makes it very difficult to pick out my best images, or rather the images that others consider to be my best work. It's very easy to get lost in the technical aspects of a photograph, how it conforms to the established rules, the contrasts, tones and textures, and the post-production of an image and ultimately lose sight of the content of the image - what it's a photograph of.
I'll figure it out though.

The rest of this afternoon will be cutting my shortened shortlist of ten images down to my best six or eight. Aaaarrrghh!

Craig