I’ve never really been career minded, preferring to take
things to a level that satisfied me before moving on to something else. Most of
what I’ve done is eminently forgettable, but the two activities I most
identified with were landscape photography and writing fiction.
I was thinking back tonight and realised how different the
two things are. Photography is a process of looking outward and capturing the
external; writing fiction involves looking inward and mining the internal. In
computer terms, you might say that photography is a downloading process,
whereas writing is uploading.
And yet one naturally followed the other. If my bits of fiction have any merit at all, I know
what a debt they owed to the sensitive eye and perceptive faculty I
developed as a photographer. Life has an odd way of working out when you follow
your natural inclinations.
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