The only real hobby I have, not counting the odd obsession I have with collecting first edition Gerald Durrell hardcovers, is photography. I’m generally a wildlife, nature and scenic photographer, as my Flickr account will attest to, and I can’t wait to do some proper wild photography in Sri Lanka. My first official RAN action that I attended however awoke a bit of a journalistic photo yearning in me, especially after my Ground Zero experience last week. As far as I can tell those pictures of the action aren’t mine, but I’ll post some of mine later.

Taking the actual photos is just a small proportion of the work, organizing, post-processing and getting them out into the public domain is actually the most time consuming and tedious. Especially considering that I usually take a few hundred pictures in a day of shooting, for example I took close to 400 today. Going through them is a pain, not to mention cropping, fixing, etc and that’s just for JPEGs, I haven’t even touched my expansive collection of RAW files. Maybe sometime when I’m stuck in isolation I might get to those. I sometimes think that I don’t get out enough and just click, but then if I did that I’d probably be bitching about how I don’t sit in front of my computer enough and process the results.

I think I’m going to spend the rest of the week trying to clear the backlog of photographs I’ve taken since July (maybe even go pro on Flickr) in preparation of a possible photo frenzy for Lovefest on Saturday. On a more random note, favourite song for the week is shadow stabbing by Cake, nod out to Darwin for the recommendation!