Imagination - the blipper's muse

"My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk."


Letter from John Keats to Percy Shelley - written on 16 August 1820.


John Keats was a great devotee of imagination.   He prized it far beyond that which he could see and touch.   In fact, he wrote elsewhere:    "You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task."


I think that when we are doing our best as blippers - even though we are gathering snapshots of what we see around us - the inspiration to choose the most engaging and most attractive images of our day is fired by our imaginations.   "Image" and "imagination", of course, are from the same pot!