New Challenges:
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When I re-designed this website three years ago, I described it as “a developing website” and as “work in progress”, and imagined that by now (Autumn 2022) it would be updated – “fully formed, elegant, responsive and ready to meet a 21st century world.” But I don’t have either the skillset for that task or the mental energy to develop the necessary expertise now that I’m dealing with the vertebral fractures and their aftermath. So I contacted a young, exciting web-designer with the brief to renew the site and although I was enthused by her ideas, I had the growing feeling that I was abandoning the site.

It felt like I was leaving my baby on the steps of The Foundling Hospital.  

With the time and energy for 'New Challenges'

Exploring the worlds of ICM and reverse-lens macro photography

I started to understand that the site is an extension of me and my personality – and a brand new, state‑of‑the‑art website just wouldn’t feel right. And even with a good rapport between us, the designer wouldn’t be able to mimic my individuality. The site might acquire something of her style about it (or that of WordPress!!) – and, overall, I'd risking losing its me-ness, its distinctiveness.

So, I've decided that it's time to just run with it – accept that 'it is what it is' (a horrible expression but it fits exactly) – and simply keep the site as it is. I want to use it more, share more, write more, enjoy it more. And, all the while, I can direct my time and energy towards new challenges in art and photography.

All of which means that, as I wrote three years ago, I hope you can see past this ugly duckling, to see and hear the creative voice in my photographs and in my writing.

Paddy xxxx

October 2022