What’s up guy’s? Welcome to my blog.
It’s great to see all of your smiling faces. Well I hope their smiling and especially after reading my welcoming words. I’m super excited and just wanted to say thank you to everyone who is taking a few moments out of their day to read this blog and have a look at my photos, it really does mean the world.
As many you may know my name is John, I’m 31 years old from the Kingdom of Fife, in Scotland. I recently decided to start this website/ blog as way to express my art form and pursuing my passion. This passion dates back to when I was at Lauder College (now known as Fife College) which I began in 2004 then progressing onto Edinburgh Napier University in 2007 when I achieved a BSc in Multimedia Technology. Sounds more awesome than it is.
At this point, I kind of expected to get some sort of job working for a web or graphic design firm, this did not happen. I applied for number positions with number of companies from all over the UK but got rejected every single time for lack of experience in the workplace (catch 22 right?).
Eventually I did gain employment for a customer service employee out-with by field which I figured out I’d be there 18 months to 2 years tops. Today, I still work their 11 years later.
After feeling in a bit of rut, last year I decided to run the Edinburgh Marathon and It really is true that it does change your life. The pain was like nothing I’d ever experienced and ‘the wall’ is very real, and kind of scary especially when parts of the stop working. Despite all of that I made to to the finish, slow time of 6 hours and 2 minutes but I was just delighted to finish. Should I do anyone? Slightly tempted.
A few months after the marathon in late August last year I became very unwell for a 2-3 month when lost feeling and control of the left side of my body, this was really scary. Initially I was expected to have a hemiplegic migraine attack but as issues faded there were no signs of any reasoning to why even after MRI and CT scans. However it was suggested I may have suffered a TIA (Mini stroke) which is scary stuff don’t google your symptoms when ill. I learned the hard way.
Looking forward as I’m feeling a lot better now I enjoy partaking in my hobbies; one which was photography, which really took a backseat for so many years. I decided to get myself an old discontinued DSLR Nikon D5100 (released in 2011) and started taking photos and uploading them to my instagram page (Link here - shameless plug lol). The surprising good feedback was thrilling and everyday I wanted to go out and take even more photographs. It’s become such an obsession where previously I would love to watch the tv, play Xbox or drink with the lads, now my more excited about waiting 20+ minutes just to get one shot, and I love it.
The reason for starting this blog is to share my thoughts aswell as my journey of trying to make it and improve my photography skills. I often see on Instagram and YouTube lots of creators sharing their stories once they’ve made it. This blog and future Vlogs (oops spoiler alert) is to show the journey of trying to make it. From where I am just learning the skills to improve day by day, with the overall goal of turning professional one day.
Sorry to drag this out so long, just started typing and things escalated. I certainly will try my best to make the future blogs shorter.
To finish, I just wanted to say a massive thank you to everyone who took the time to read this. Hopefully you made it to the end. I really does mean the world. Please if you enjoyed this first blog entry please hit the like button and comment below. Also if you didn’t, please comment below as I’m alway on the look out for constructive feedback to improve anything.
Thanks and see you soon.