Work - the curse of the working class. I least I have been able to sort of ease into it. I have an interview on Monday for a full time position which I suspect that I will be offered as I have been told I am the only applicant. The money won't be great but given that I have burned through all my savings during my sabbatical I just have to take what is offered.
I hope that I can get in a side trip or two before I am back full time but that is hard to manage in Arizona summer. It is either too hot to play or raining - not that I would ever complain about rain. So of late my photography has been confined to my neighborhood or even in my house. This shot is of some tomatoes from my garden using a bit of formcore to reflect light from the window onto the tomatoes. Taken with my newest P&S camera, a Panasonic Lumix FZ35. For a P&S I am impressed with the quality.

The end of Sabbatical

Like all good things my time of being unemployed is coming to a close. For a nurse unemployment is a rare and wonderful thing. I have never not had a job in my adult life and this time was wonderful. I haven't been out taking as many photographs as I might have liked - other projects, and health concerns burned up some chunks of time and energy. I have looked around me with a critical eye regularly and studied things like off camera lighting, exposure and technique have slowly built my kit and now I have some studio lights as well as the tricks for off camera lighting.
And now when I have new tools up my sleeve I will have less time and with the perverseness of life will likely take more time for photography. As I always say - More will be revealed.

So it has been six months since I became an unemployed person. I expected to have lots of time and energy to work both my photography and this blog. The best laid plan of mice and men would most accurately describe that plan. I have been suffering from an inability to focus on this project or on my photography. I have gotten some big projects off the ground- my bathroom is in the process of being renovated but I have not made the progress I had hoped.
Turns out that I have developed new onset diabetes. A bit of a surprise for me as no one in our family has had a history of diabetes. I am looking at it as the reward for 25 years of self indulgence!
Anyway I am hoping to feel better soon and have actually taken a few shots in recent weeks.
I have acquired a new toy into the bargain. I gave my Olympus P&S to my sister and bought a Lumix FZ35. It takes movies with sound and has a 12 Megapixel capture, and has the ability to accept filters which was a challenge with the Olympus.
Spring has arrived although it is snowing today - even as I type this I am saying good-bye my pear and persimmon crop.
As a self confessed flower photo lover I am trying to move beyond the single bloom centered macro. Let me know what you think.