So, my muse and mentor is in the country and I am being challenged to think about why I am writing this blog and what I want to do with my image making. A hard question. The emotional answer is that I love photography and with the discovery that I could take it to another level then that is exciting and fascinating.  But then I have to try and think it through a stage further. Hard, vey hard. And yet thoughts emerge. Over the years I have taken many tens of thousands of photographs; some of them happy personal memories, some of them junk and some images that really please me. And it is this latter category that forms the material for this blog; sharing with others images that I hope will achieve a reaction … ‘wow’ is always good, yet I hope for thoughts of beautiful, interesting, exciting. Even irritation is a reaction as, with the others, they might encourage all of us to create more images and more reflection, in my case, particularly upon this beautiful planet we inhabit. And every day there are vast numbers of photo opportunities, most of which get missed; plenty for all.

The image below is just such an image. Reflections in a Copenhagen canal at Christmas  time. Most were taking photos of the elegant buildings; I loved the reflections in the water…. A tweak in  photoshop and here we are.