David Walker

from Mycreativeimages Magazine - March 2021

Hand Embellishing

Time passes…sometimes slowly…sometimes more rapidly.

PhotoArt evolves…sometimes slowly…sometimes more rapidly.

During lockdown for Covid 19 both time and art have been slower than usual!

I think we can all relate to time during our enforced stay at home mode…feelings that could be moving towards a depressed state of mind…perhaps increased loneliness…perhaps boredom… perhaps one of the many other things that affect our daily life?

Lockdown has different implications for the PhotoArtist. You have fewer new photographs to work with, inspiration (or your muse) can be negatively affected, less chance (well no chance really!) to physically exhibit your works, broadband speed reduced because so many working from home, less live feedback from other artists to name but a few downsides.

For me there have been some very positive upsides:• New programs developed that direct your skills in new directions and enabled some of your images to now be used in a different way • Time to sort out you photographic catalogue (over 140,000 images) and discover long forgotten shots that can be developed into new PhotoArt • Clean up your computer so it works faster • Take more time watching on-line learning, from new sources, to further evolve your skills • Taking time out to read and listen to music and thereby evolve your muse • Realising that you spend too much time on matters over which you have no immediate control, politicians, of every type, have a real responsibility to make things better for our world…but so often they think of nothing but themselves and how they can personally benefit…I’m awfully glad that I am an artist!

So as is normal, the ups and downs of life carry on, regardless of the happenings in our world. I prefer the positive half full approach to the negative half empty approach. Sometimes my art has suffered but on the whole I think my artistic renderings have improved during these difficult times.

Things can only get better and better, we have been through the worst!