Welcome back and good morning if you are reading this in the morning and if not hi! 👋🏻

So this week I have not been up-to much. As I mentioned last week I am at a powerlifting competition today, so I haven’t been up-to much this week want to make sure no injuries happened. Like no rolled ankles or anything like that.

So this week is going to be short and simple.

What I actually learned from the past couple of months of preparing for this is how to prep the mind. There has been highs and lows throughout. Dieting, training consistently 4-6 days a week. Days where I did not want to train and been tired, sore, cranky. But! I made it through it. However I actually realised that the mental discipline it gave me was great, especially now I am going to be getting ready to walk the camino so it is going to help me there. The fact that I have the mentality to get over the hard parts and keep pushing on, is the best benefit from this.

In other news.

Regarding my work. I have gotten out and shot around Slieve Donard Forest Park and those images will be released over the next couple of weeks on my socials as I want to work on them.

However with the news this week coming out that Instagram is now letting you select “following” and “Favourites” may put a slow down on people seeing my work as I hope people do put me in the “Favourite” category. But this has me ask this question. Does it now actually matter the following you have? If you have thousands of followers but if you are not in their “Favourites” now the companies will not get that reach anymore.

I seen this and thought how great the simple things can be. Something that we would walk over but as I did not have to rush I was able to slow down and think about my shots. It added a great feeling to it. The shot I called “Life” as it is the perfect representation for me. As the roots resemble the vascular system in our own bodies. I loved how simple but complexed it is.

Anyway there is going to be more imagery from this trip coming out and I look forward to showing them to you. They may not all be portfolio shots but that is what social media is for.

As always I love reading your comments, so feel free to comment your thoughts.

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So why have I started the blog and not a vlog?

Well there is a couple of reasons the main reason is that I can feel awkward talking to a camera as I'm not a big fan of hearing my own voice but who know it may change and I might start do instagram vlogs, but that's beside the point.

Also I wanted to challenge myself with actual writing and reading. I have a form of dyslexia (thank you Google for the help on spelling :D). Like honestly what a way to spell a word for people who struggle with spelling among other things. Anyway! As I was saying it is to challenge me to do more spelling and reading.

There is another reason. I am doing the Camino De Santiago soon and I wanted to document the journey for me. But instead of starting for this on that journey, I thought it would be best to do it now. To allow myself to actually it up and running and get use to the thought process. I do plan on videoing some of it however my actual plan for it will be to take a journal with me and write it down and when I get back I can reflect on it.

I hiked up Slieve Donard the other day and it was tough. I am getting back into it now but it was great as I was just telling myself to keep going. Visibility was 0 but rewarding in other ways. It got me thinking. As I was through Donard forest and hearing the sound of nature and it made me recall something and it's it is the sound of nature. I know that Spotify/YouTube or any other music area have "Nature Sounds" but they definitely do not compare to the actual thing.

I’m going to make this a Sunday thing this blog. So it can be a nice short read on a Sunday morning or when you get time to read it.

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