the dawn of a new year

the dawn of a new year, originally uploaded by jamesburden.

I’m not a big fan of New Year’s resolutions. However, this year I am choosing a theme for my year. And my theme is this: mediocre creativity.

Those of you who follow my online presence, or who even know me in person, will know that creativity is very important to me – whether that’s with photographs, words, or music. But I have a weakness. I only ever post something which I think is worthy of remarking – remarkable with a small ‘r’! This means that often I don’t post something because I don’t feel its good enough. I find it difficult to be mediocre. I either do something really really well, or I don’t do it all. This all-or-nothing thinking has led me to some difficult places in the past and I want to challenge it this year.

So here’s what my theme for the year means. I will blog everyday this year. Some days I might not actually upload it on the day – that’s all part of me being mediocre! Some days it will be something new, some days it might be something from the archive. Some days it will be trivial, some days it may be deep. Some days there will be a relationship between words and image, some days the link will be astonishingly tenuous to the point of non-existent.

A journey is infinitely better with companions – with friends. So I invite you to join me on my journey. You can either follow my stream on flickr, or if you have a google, yahoo or twitter account you can follow my blog. If you’re on facebook then you can either friend me or become a fan of my facebook photography page – either way you’ll get updates in your news feed.

Happy New Year – may you be blessed this year.