Long time no post.

I haven't posted anything in a while and felt I should share what I have been up to. My employer sent me on a week long course for work, up in Warwickshire (2 hours from my home) which then left me with 6 assignments to complete once I got back. Unfortunately these have the same deadline, 4 weeks from the course start date. If I don't complete them on time then I fail. I just have half of one assignment left (due on the 25th October) and then I am all done!

The day after I got back from the course I went to start work on my laptop only for it to be making an awful noise and it would not start up. I took it down to my local computer company who basically told me that the hard drive had gone. Unfortunately I am one of these people that mean to back up their work and never seem to get round to it. This has meant that I have lost all of my work for photography, all of my photos course related and personal, as well as documents for work. The computer company were unable to retrieve anything off the laptop. I contacted the college and explained the situation as I was obviously going for formal assessment and was unsure what would happen as I no longer had any work to submit. Luckily they were great and said that I could submit my blog as all of my assignments are on it and it is used as my learning log. Right at the start of the course I did do all of my work in a sketchbook so this has also been submitted. I am just grateful I can carry on.

Whilst all of this has been happening I had started shooting the projects for Digital Photographic Practice. I am yet to have written any of them up as I have only just purchased a new laptop. I will now be making sure that I back up all of my work, and recommend that everyone does the same. It is surprising the amount of people I have spoken to that have never done this either.

I am really looking forward to beginning the new course, I need to be much more strict with myself, in particular with setting aside time to work on it. I feel that my work course has really set me back and would of like to have been furher alone with the projects and be thinking about the first assignment.