This year I had planned a lot of things, one of which was a project to take a photograph a day for every day of the year. Unfortunately it went wrong sometime in February, when due to running late one day I ended up forgetting to take a photo. The realisation was my first waking thought the next morning and I was crushed. I resolved to take a photo to highlight the fact that I had forgotten to take a photo. A compromise, but I felt it allowed me to move on and carry on with the project. Besides, they were nobodies rules but mine.

A week later though I managed it again. Twice in two weeks, at least it meant I was running at one missed photograph a month. I could still do something to cover this, so not the end of the world. I resolved not to let it happen again. But it did and then again, so that by the beginning of April I was still running at one missed photograph a month, still acceptable. Just.

But looking back I think there was a reason this was happening and why it was happening more and more often. Since another driver decided to drive into my car in December, I've been struggling with a bad back. This has meant instead of being out and about with work, I've been confined to working from home or the office. The longer my back takes to be fixed, the harder I'm finding inspiration for photographs. Not only had I wanted this project to be a record of my year, but I'd made a promise to myself (and to my wife) that it wouldn't become a burden on my time. To me this meant that I only occasionally would I allow myself to go out to specifically take pcitures, most days the subject would have to be part of my day. If I'd been doing my job as normal this wouldn't have been so hard. But with days currently being fairly repetitive finding new subjects is becoming increasingly difficult.

So after a weekend of being stuck at home ill, I've decided to scrap the project, at least the part of it requiring me to take a photo every day. I'll still try and document the year as best I can but reducing this project will take some pressure of my life for now. I'll keep some of the photos on here, but the bulk of my work you can find on Flickr, here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/malcolmdines/

In the meantime I'll be writing stuff here. I'll leave it up to you to decide if it's any good.