365:62 PER BIRKHAUG

After the most kindly reception of my first Community 365 email and photo, I'm a bit encouraged to contribute again. Lately I've been thinking about something James Popsys mentioned in one of his educating and entertaining YouTube vidoes: "Kill your darlings."

By that he meant that you should delete all shots that you immediately don't find worthy of a further life, whether that be as a print or a post on some social media. And I can totally relate to that. I mean, it’s so easy when shooting digital to accumulate an overwhelming amount of photos that you don't get around to doing anything about. They just sit there on some hard drive, forgotten.

Better then to just "kill" them right away, right? I think Valerie Jardin made that point in one of the episodes where you talked to her as well? But, every so often I do have the opportunity to look back through my catalogue, and I find some picture that sparks my attention, and I can't figure out why I haven't done something with it up until now.

So maybe, just maybe, sometimes it's not a good idea to "kill your darlings" because they just might mature on you. You may develop and acquire skills and knowledge to see that what you once thought didn't have any potential, now looks very promising?

Anyhow, that's been some food for thought on my part lately. I enclose a photo I made at a pond called Skranevatnet, very close to where I live a bit outside Bergen. This particular image features some post processing work too as I try to develop my Photoshop skills; mainly blurred the foreground and background a bit, and adjusted the colors somewhat.