Five Year Development

I wonder what my style will be like in 5 years time. I suspect it will be ‘different’ to what it is now because if I look back 5 years, (please don’t) I can personally see big improvements in both the technical, but also the creative. Now this isn’t something that will be a surprise to most of you, but continuing this development curve I should be another 20% better in 5 years, he he!

Now as we all know that in life things don’t always follow a uniform prediction, and the previous statement is making the assumption that I will continue to develop (which is totally subjective anyway). But I can make a statement with certainty “if I’m still enjoying making landscape photography in 5 years time and my health permits it, I’m sure I will be different in many ways to today!” (Doesn’t sound so sexy do it).

The thing I’m exploring here is to gain insight into my own development path. I’m wondering if I would even like or respect the images I’m making in 5 years time? (I suspect not, because I haven’t developed to like them yet). I’m wondering if they will be exclusively black and white (something that many of my contacts have moved towards exclusively). I’m wondering if I will level off and become settled into a style that I’m happy with, (somehow I doubt that, I’m very much an advocate of change as I tire of doing the same thing time and time again, no matter how good it is...) I’m wondering if I will branch out into different styles (I do like to toy with portraits and many of my favours recently have been images of people with a twist). But one thing I’m sure of, I love landscape photography because getting up at silly hours in the morning to tramp across a frozen field and feel the pain of the frost eating away at your toes and fingertips, is in some strange way invigorating. It makes me feel at one with nature and the environment. It makes me concentrate fully on the moment and it makes me feel totally alive! That is why I bet I’m still hitting the alarm clock and pealing myself away from the pillow to head off into the dark in 5 years time! How about you?

Title:	Five Year Development
Username:	jasontheaker
Uploaded:	15 Nov 2011 - 6:32 PM
Camera:	Canon EOS 5D MkII
Lens:	EF24-105mm F/4L IS USM
Recording media:	JPEG (digital)
Date Taken:	29 Jan 2011 - 9:04 AM
Tags:	Beech, Derwentwater, Forest, Freezing, Frost, Grass, Lake district, Landscape / travel, Winter
Votes:	11