I’ve been away from posting for nearly two months.  Where has the time gone?  And why away at all?  No good reason – I didn’t feel like it.  In fact I preach doing what you love even when you don’t feel like it and I guess I had better pay attention to that.  I suppose that sentence is a bit self contradictory but I think you know what I mean.  What got me going again were two women.  One was Elizabeth Gilbert talking about creativity in the outstanding series of talks available at www.ted.com.  She was making exactly that point – that it is important to keep going with your creative effort whether you feel like it or not.  Well worth seeing.

The other woman was my friend Becky who said ‘hey, let’s go shoot some lotus blossoms.’  So we did.

It was a good day for shooting. I say ‘good’ because it was sunny but the light was not too intense and, especially, because we were enjoying a break from a long spell of hot weather.

I keep coming back to images with a lot of light and heavy shadow.

And the bees keep coming back to the blossoms.

More later.  Not much later, I hope.