Good days and bad days

This is my 590th consecutive blip. Not an anniversary, but of late, on days when my motivation to take a picture has waned, I've questioned why I continue to do it. On the good days, the answer is obvious; I enjoy the creativity that photography offers as well as the outlet it provides for me to express my feelings or simply to rant about something I care about. On the not so good days, those days when it feels like a chore that I could do without, I do it anyway, but on those days it is not usually about the picture which is typically rushed and ill thought through; no, on those days, it is about the journal entry as I want to know what was on my mind on those 'off days' when I come to look back over 2014 next year and beyond.

I'll let you decide based on the picture if today was a good day or a bad day.

Watched a very good film overnight, Defiance. Based on a true story about a group of Jews who escaped the Nazi death squads and concentration camps and hid out in the woods. Led by two brothers they survived this way for several years and 1,200 of them managed to survive the war. A truly remarkable story in its own right, but even more poignant given what is happening to the Yazidi people in Iraq today. I've said it before, but I don't mind repeating it - humanity never learns and is basically both stupid and selfish in equal amounts.