A little colour on a dull day!!

Another dreadful day!! Thank goodness for Garden Centres!! Blip mojo almost gone today!!! But at least this little flower was a bright spark....


ADVICE/REALITY CHECK/REASSURANCE SOUGHT!!!!

I really don't know whether to write this or not....since right now I'm a bit churned up about it!! But I don't know who else to ask...you folks all love photography...and it's to do with that!

I got my Photography course result back....and I cannot say anything but that I am a mixture of gutted, furious, bewildered, and ARGHHHH!!!! I really am at a loss as to what to think!! At the moment it's just the grade, and a brief description. Something a bit more in depth is coming later. But it's not what I hoped for....shall we say! I've studied a lot in my time, a couple of degrees, a counselling diploma, my nursing....a bit of a saddo really!! I'm usually very accurate at self assessing. But clearly I've been way off mark here, or have I? I got a very good mark for the first part of the module, and that acted as a percentage of my total. That means that my actual Panel of 10 shots got a pretty poor mark.Or a lot poorer than expected! They have categories...
Just Acheived, Acheived, Well Acheived, Excellent, and Outstanding. My panel shots barely made it out of the Acheived category!!!

Now this is my dilemna....how deluded am I?? Should I be disappointed? Angry? Am I deluding myself to have thought that they were better than that? Or have I been graded unjustly?? I reckon there is sod all I can do about it!! And believe me, I've actually checked the appeals criteria!! It's hardly a HUGE deal....but it matters to me!!

In the end, I reckon I'll just take my Dad's advice (something I'd rarely do!!)....that I should just get out there and enjoy my photography, forget what 1 or 2 examiners think, and let the public decide. Since some people are now keen to buy some of my shots...who the hell cares about the course result really!! But I still can't help caring, and asking what you folk think!!!!!!! Sigh!! I feel like I've spent hard earned cash on a course that's done nothing more than dent my confidence and bewilder me!!!

The final panel of shots I chose are

HERE.....


Any thoughts? Or advice! Or indeed, help to understand why my shots would be marked so poorly!! I hope you don't mind me asking....and I'm more than open to learning!!



Back at work tomorrow....so not back here till Sunday!!
Have a good weekend...
xx