Part of my 2010 project is about getting back out with my camera – or at least trying to. And as part of that, I’m going to work on Amateur Photographer magazine’s “Amateur Photographer of the Year” competition.

The first round of it is due to be in next Friday, so I’m planning to take some time today to go out and see what I can do.

It’ll mean taking Hound out too, as I’m off to the coast – the project is about the interaction of water and land, and there are some fantastic environments for that kind of theme around here.

We’ll just have to see what comes out of the day. I hope it’s worth the time.

Actually, I’m sure it will be – even if it doesn’t come up with the results I want, there’ll be something from it.

So – the first month. (OK, six weeks)  I’ve been working on starting a number of projects as part of this big “Finger Out” plan. There’s a long way to go yet, and work has also kicked in heavily over January, which has meant I’ve not been able to do as much as I planned to.

However, what I have achieved so far is :

• Started a new online writing project, which will either work out or won’t.
• Started the photography business on a new site, although not done anything with it yet.  It’s been going prior to this on a different site, but I’ve never been overly happy with it, so it’s time to re-do things.
• Written a couple of spec letters for getting some photography projects in order to build up the portfolio
• Started organising myself for the Amateur Photographer “Amateur Photographer of the Year” competition. I’ve done little bits of this before, but again I’m hoping that I can complete the entire thing this year. I don’t expect to win, or even place, but I’m going to at least try.

There’s other stuff coming up too, but things have changed and/or delayed a bit so far this year.  There’ll be more progress updates as we go on, along with anything else I can think of.