The Summer Lull / by Rob Sutherland

Summertime… and the living is easy….

Or not - as every year things go quiet over the summer - although it has been quiet since November of last year it has become almost entirely barren now. This would normally be a cause of worry, but this year… less so.

Why?

Well, we have been having one or two “technical” issues. My laptop has reached “end of life”, it still works, but a full edit is taking several hours longer due to crashes and reboots. It should be okay for fieldwork moving forward, at least for another year or two, but the heavy lifting will be moving to a new desktop machine next week. Getting that installed and set up how I like it will probably take most of the week from delivery (the build date is this Friday).

This lull has given me a little space to think and plan though, the workshops are coming - I have been working on ideas whilst also testing some concepts out - we have the first commercial one in the Autumn down in the Trossachs that I am putting together the itinerary of at present, then I may put a few one-day workshops together as well as offering 1 to 1s. There should be a load more videos coming as well as I am planning to dip my toes into some other creative avenues as well as looking at the good and the bad of Highland life, being a professional photographer and exploring some locations that I find as I go.

So, despite a lack of “work” I have a lot to do! Hopefully as the harsh light of summer starts to soften I should be ready to get cracking!