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Sunday, 16th May, 2004

Notes from 16th May 2004
[posted at 10:00 GMT]    

Today we had a last meeting/trip with colleagues from Foto-Academy. We went to trip into near by city Antwerpen. Intention was to take some pictures on Sunday market and than visit a photo museum and have some nice dinner.
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All things turns out little different. As usually market was very very crowded and that is dissolving my ability to focus. Even I had few plans what to take pictures of, problem was that at the moment I went there I realize how useless and uninteresting to me is taking those pictures.
So I sit in café next to market and was drinking some juice and thinking what to do. I was watching people and going through my former plans for picture taking. I find out that my plan to shoot hands of people is maybe nicely done, but the results woudn't interest me much, the same was about some other details from market. I didn't really want to take pictures of part, details or similar cropped things.
I made a mistake I didn't select my plans correctly I didn't consider all possible effects and situation and didn't choose what is important for me. Now when is tomorrow I can see what I could do, but it is too late.
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The rest of the day my mood went down as I didn't even finished one roll. Photo museum was real disaster. I do not understand how one museum can display so little as in Antwerpen and well, somebody maybe like it but I have to force myself into it. In my humble opinion pictures which were there sucks totally. I force myself to like maybe two or three. But imaging totally on two floors (when excluding exhibition of magazines covers) was about 20-30 pictures. Completely useless, nothing telling pictures of size 1.5x 3 meters. Well maybe this is just my frustration from my failure that day. But I would ask my money back if that would be possible.
Dinner sisn't happen as suddenly nobody wanted to stay, it looks like not only me wasn't fully satisfied, but nobody said so. Well I knew now something more about myself.