Slow and Unproductive

Well, here I am again. Literally forcing myself to write something in an effort to take my mind off 3 things 1. work, 2. boredom and 3. an ill advised piece of male grooming (A shave of my face before your mind ventures haphazardly towards the gutter).


So far this week i have worked 3 shifts at 6am to 2pm, encountered 4 gym session, visited friends and on Monday night (possibly the most exciting part) attempted to film an idea.


Now I say attempted because, well it didn't pay off. There were a few issues that I will get into later on, perhaps the most important issue of all was that I was flying solo after trying and failing to obtain either a camera man or someone who would hold a camera and film for me no one was available.


The fact that no one was available was ok by me, it was a spur of the moment thing and cant expect people to drop their lives for something I cannot afford to pay them for.


The Idea was one that I briefly mentioned in my previous blog - The Bypass between Cudworth and Darfield. The lighting is absolutely perfect in certain areas of this stretch of road. I'll do my best to explain, there are lots of factories and warehouses situated very close to this stretch of road, I have noticed that at night the street and factory lights as well as the lights from the villages the road connect, not only catch the wing mirror perfectly but also reflect in the side of my car and create a beautiful effect that I wanted to capture.


Now in theory this all sounds fine, but a combination of the light leaving closer to 9pm that 6pm, sleep deprivation followed by an hour training session at the gym, no camera and to add to that no camera man meant that I couldn't follow through with my plan.


The camera I was/am to use is my digital 6mp one, whilst capable of film it isn't great and an actual film camera is required as soon as possible, but until then I may have to make do. The reason I didn't get the footage is due to the fact that because I was alone I deemed it too dangerous to even attempt to film whilst driving. Then when my next tactic to take some preliminary photo's from the various stopping places also back fired I gave up and went home.


So all in all it was a bit of a wasted trip, but I now realise that a camera is needed asap and that I need someone to either take hold of the camera whilst I drive or someone with a sliver car to drive me!


This post I doubt will have been in any way as interesting as the first 2 but what do you expect from a slow week.


Right off to try and find something stupid to do.


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