Mid Year Appraisal

Well, it's mid-year appraisal time at work, so I thought it opportune to revisit my Photography Goals for 2007, as originally posted in January this year. They are below, with updates as of June 2007.


1. To be a regular attendee at CCC - Managed to get to more sessions of CCC for sure, but still missed some. Mostly due to illness, work or Abby.

2. To complete the population of my website and to build in the purchase prints facility - This is coming along, and the print purchase facility is quite easy to do. This one is moving slowly...

3. To have one or more of my prints available for sale in a local outlet in/around Cambridge - nothing to report here.

4. To sell some of my prints to paying punters (this could be linked in to number 2). Again, no sales. Have not really tried, though.

5. To have some more "success" in CCC competitions and perhaps inter-club competitions too - this has definitely been achieved. Came third overall in the serial projected image competition, and won the Creative section of the Annual Digital Championship (as well as the 2nd in the same category). Also got a commended in the Creative section.

6. To enter one image in this year's CCC Annual Exhibition - this is not until October time I think.

7. To enter, and hopefully be placed in at least one round, a national photo competition (e.g. a magazine "Photographer of the 8. Year" type competition - I did enter one competition, but was not placed. May try again before year is out.

8. To obtain Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) status in Photoshop - this will definitely not happen this year. Time, plus don't know enough about CS3 yet.

9. To begin the process of obtaining another photographic "qualification", through CCC - may address this when CCC starts up again in September.

10. To stop buying as many books and magazines, and start doing more photography!! - alas, failed on this so far; have done very little photography, although no new books have been purchased. Magazine purchases down greatly too - only really buy 2 a month.

So, some progress. Will update you towards the end of the year.

Ivan