since I last posted a blog on this site. It's not because I don't check in on it and try to update it regularly, because I do. It is more that my current creativity is massively taken up with my music and writing output.
It is March 2023 and I've just published by latest poetry collection ('Messages to No One') whilst working on the 2023 collection (working title 'In Quiet Tones'), am working with Keith on a new EP ('Passing Moods') and also recording our Prog double CD extravaganza ('discoveryONE'). [My two other main sites have been updated accordingly.] I take photos every day, often just on my phone but I do go out on a 'Shoot' every once in a while, especially now we have relocated to the lovely countryside of Lincolnshire for our new post-retirement adventure! But I don't have the time to do everything I want to - I still have work to do on a collection of short stories ('Past Horrors') that I should have published nearly two years ago! And that novel won't write itself! Since moving up to Lincolnshire I've taken two courses at the Grimsby University Institute; one on Scriptwriting and one on Creative Writing. Both have given me new tools to use in my creative pursuits and both have been enjoyable and thoroughly interesting. But this has meant that my photography has, in some ways, perhaps 'suffered' in that this site has not been kept as current or interesting as it should or I could make it. I have another reason - I wasn't very well with COVID in 2020 and now have long COVID and quite a few issues as a result of it. My health has deteriorated in a number of areas and I can't work in the same way, or for the same length, as I used to be able too. Hence why there was a long gap between the end of 2019 and now really - I've been lucky and still feel grateful to be alive, but I'm less than I was in significant ways. But I keep going (not quite like a certain battery driven bunny, but you get the idea)! Just as well that no one really pops in to have a look I guess! But I'm going to sort out some more recent images and rationalise the photos on this site to provide a broader spectrum of what my photography is all about. Therefore, if you have just popped by on the 'off chance' there is something worthwhile to peruse; please do so again in a couple of weeks time and maybe I'll have had an hour or so to update everything for you! In the meantime, enjoy taking your photos but stay safe out there! Alan
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Alan MitchellI'm always trying to capture that fleeting 'moment' in time -whether by taking a photo or writing a poem. My attempts to capture that illusive feeling, sight, sensation or sound in some way is, to me, magical. Archives
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