Fail, fail again. Fail better.

Today has been a day of struggles. Mostly inner struggles. At noon I started to make my blip as I had an idea. I tried all kinds of ways photographing what I had on my mind but I could not get it to work.

I could see the first signs of failing in this task already when I couldn't find a good position for my tripod. Decisive as I am I did not give up. After getting the angle and tripod as I wanted I realized that the whole execution did not work. At that time I was already sweating. So what to do?

I had probably been postponing my work-out at the gym trying to force that shot. It is quite a while since I have been at the gym and I have had all kinds of good explanations why I cannot go there at the moment. Yesterday I decided that today I WILL go there.

I collected my gym stuff and went out, relying on my intuition of getting a blip on the way. Walking the short way I started to scan my environment, that was kind of desperate. Got nothing that I was satisfied with.

Being at the gym it was a struggle, just having those long walks in the woods lately doesn't build the muscles. On my way back just before I was close to my home house I saw these rose branches against the blue-grey wall. It caught my eye even if there wasn't much light. This reflects my day of struggle.

The quote is Paul Arden's from the book "It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be".