“Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time” (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)


This is to be my last journal entry for the time being, I’ve decided to take a step back from deviantart for a while and see if the art world can be conquered elsewhere. Next month will mark my 1st anniversary as a deviant, and having just scraped past the 3000 pageviews mark I don’t think I’ve made the progress I’d hoped to. I’ve never been one to crave popularity but I think every artist, photographer, writer or musician ultimately wants their work to provoke a response or emotion from as many people as possible, in whatever form that may take. If there’s little or no reaction then it’s difficult to judge whether the work is deemed good or not, to learn and improve, or if it provokes the response the creator intended. So rather than just continuing along the same path waiting for something to happen I’m going to try another route. Or as in one of my images, burn all the maps and begin again.


“There comes a time when everyone wants to re-evaluate their life and what they want out of it” (the greatest philosopher of our time, Mutya Sugababe)


So I’m going to start being more active on other art sites and see if I can get a breakthrough that I’ve not managed here. I’m going to really concentrate on further improving my technique, re-evaluate everything I’ve produced to date and try to focus on what has really worked best. Then hopefully come back with original images that will knock people’s socks off, which admittedly isn’t easy in landscape/seascape photography, but that’s got to be the aim. In the meantime a big thank you to everyone who has faved, collected, commented and glomped, I’ve met many great people here and seen much to be inspired by so far


“In the clearing stands a boxer, and a fighter by his trade
and he carries the reminders, of every glove that laid him down
and cut him till he cried out, in his anger and his shame
I am leaving, I am leaving
but the fighter still remains”
(Bob Dylan)


So that’s it for now, aside from one last “This is Scotland” feature below (though there are still various people and images I wanted to feature which haven’t fitted the themes yet, so probably not the last ever one). Support, fave and do your worst to the photographers shooting Scotland at night. And in the words of the governor of California, I’ll be back

P.S. Why is Batman in the new Terminator movie?




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This is Scotland – Part 5
Scotland at night