MYLDN 1800 – 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!

Some pictures from deep within the vault this week…why? Well folks, this is not only my 1800th post but the MYLDN blog has been going for 10 years! I’ve been doing it so long I’m not even sure blogs are still a thing but here we are.

I initially thought I would do it for a year. (Get the photo now?) Always liked annual project. The idea was to have a platform to share and showcase all these photos I didn’t know what to do with that I’d taken as wandered around this never dull city. But what I hadn’t anticipated was how much productivity it would generate. It gave me purpose and focus and improved my skills and is still doing so to this day.

Each week a theme materialised almost by magic as my photos somehow connected to what was going on in the world at the time. There were many wrongs to right and indeed write about and coupled with the fact that I have never been short of an opinion always meant I had something to rant about come each Friday.

The world itself has changed a truckload since I started…sadly not for the better (environmental collapse, Brexit, Trump, wealth disparity, digital fuelled narcissism) and the saddest thing is the one thing that should’ve changed is that those tory fuckwits are still in power, still fucking shit up, still not giving a shit.

I have had to step away from the political spectrum for my own sanity and health but no matter what was going on in my life I kept taking photos and carried on. Even whilst being ill over the last three years I kept it going (albeit with a few lil breaks in transmission) because the truth is this is how I connect to other human beings. Especially at the moment so it’s very precious to me. It’s difficult to know sometimes if anyone’s paying attention but I know some of you have been with me since the beginning and it’s great to still have you on board.

But even if no-one was looking I would still be doing this because I have a compulsion to document the world around me. I am addicted to capture those tiny little moments amidst the drudgery of day to day living that would otherwise be lost in the ether forever. And I’m not sure that is ever going to go away.

Am I gonna keep going for another ten years? Or more? Who da fuck knows? I am still trying to work through all the photographs I have taken. Even if I never took another I still think I have enough shots in the archive to keep this ship sailing till I sink. Now is that a threat or a promise I hear you say?