It also doesn't help that editing posts using HTML (so I can hyperlink to relevant narrowed collections on my blog) has no helpful colour displays like it used to. When you're someone with dyspraxia, viewing code like that (and unbroken walls of text is a similar issue) can be challenging.

On top of having no control over the order in which photos appear on my blog after the fact (I can't go back and slot older photos between older posts like I can on Flickr, haha), it's really disillusioning me from wanting to continue maintaining this blog. I'll leave it, and what I've uploaded so far, here just in case I do want to return to it, but for now I do just want to leave it be until I feel more positive about it.

I still really appreciate the feedback and likes and reblogs and stuff, thank you for that ♥

Firstly, I’m sorry for going back and posting more old images. I find that when I go back to browse unprocessed work, I sometimes find a new appreciation I didn’t originally have and one thing sort of leads to another, I originally intended the photo I just uploaded to be part of a private collection for myself but I ended up processing it to share. There is a genuine reason for me to go back and go through my older work, too. I’ve run out of drive space on my large photography-dedicated HDD so this is also part of me managing and freeing up space. I have an external hard drive I hardly look at that I use for long-term storage, so I want to make sure I have everything I want from my older work before making the transfer to free up space that I need for newer work.

Secondly, I also want to apologise if colour balancing is off, or whites/blacks look a bit muted in some of my photos. It has been an issue my entire life, but I only just received a diagnosis and have been able to put a name to this a few years ago. Looking at brighter colours are one of many things I struggle with due to irlen syndrome, and I’ve been growing increasingly aware of how this has been affecting the adjustments I make to the colour balancing and contrast in my work. I’m sorry if this compromises the experience of viewing my work, however I have taken steps to try and mitigate it by having a darker computer screen and I also wear filtered glasses. Even so, I thought it was about time I explained this in case it’s something you’ve noticed in my work. I also hope that if you also have irlen syndrome, that it makes it easier for you to view my work.

And lastly, I want to apologise for my lack of consistent updates. Asides from the condition I named above, I do struggle with several other health difficulties and I’ve been having a particularly difficult time for a long while. I am trying to get back to my art despite this.

Once again, like I say whenever I make a text post like this, thank you for your support and patience, and I hope you stick around for future updates.

I'm finally out of that last nature set, that was 33 photos! The most from one session of photography I’ve had so far.

I did edit something different from a few days after (which I’ll be posting shortly after this little update), I did want to finish up the month (June 2013) but my laptop has been getting intolerably slow so I have to stop where I am for now.

Quick thank you for the appreciation towards my photos recently, particularly of the Ladybirds (or Ladybugs—we call them Ladybirds in the UK)

My desktop PC is nearly finished being built, I'm just waiting for the last component. Doing any sort of editing on my laptop has become rather painful, everything is very slow and it freezes often. Once my desktop is sorted, I'll post more!

I posted this to Instagram, my hard drive experienced some physical trauma and I was unable to access anything on it for a couple of months. I received a new enclosure and, luckily, none of the information on it was lost!