Yep,on the Moors even when wet, it's pure evil. Bikes can be found abandoned, stood upright in the thick cack. If you try to rescue your bike you can get sucked under

Edit: slight exaggeration there, but yes it is very sticky.

Work-life balances!

When you're self employed and you are working 16hrs a day, at certain times of the year, the training has to go onto the back burner. Period. I'm training but as the days become weeks and you run even longer hours and try to meet deadlines, the bike spends ever more time in the shed. You have to firing on all 4 cylinders throughout your working summer (here especially) and that's something you can't compromise upon.

Those who have been reading my posts, you'll be quite aware how much effort I put in and how I'm no shrinking violet and go out in all weather at all times of the day and night.

It's just a darn shame all the best riding and events are when I'm working!

Tim

Work life balance 35 hours a week for me on average with holidays it works out I do 3.3 days a week.

And its still too heavily weighted to work.

35hrs a week.

Luxury!

Double that! Tomorrow's Greek wedding: Leave home at 08:30. On site at 09:30am. Finish 01:00. Home at 01:45. Offload the cards 03:30. Back them up over night. 

So, 2000 images to then post produce, Quick edit of maybe 1.5hrs = trimmed down to 1,700 images. 200 images an hour max can be processed in post production.

And that's not including web and lab uploads, then albums.

Depressing when I look that far into my tomorrow!

Tim

Maybe you'd like to see the end result?

Good luck with the wedding, take it you're a photographer. A couple of friends took it up and do weddings etc. One did it full time, Charlie, he use to ride but he is totaly engrossed these days with work. John does it to pay for his cameras and finds it hard work but still gets out for a ride.

The pictures are good

Thanks. That's a pdf of a bespoke layout for a Book, put together in Italy and it can take a while to compile and design as each one is different.

As you elluded to above, one of the reasons why there's less work at present is that digital photography has made the medium of photography far more accessable, resulting in more people setting up all the time meaning lower prices (many part timers) and with less weddings each year, year-on-year it's become something of a photographer's grave yard out there!

Tough, meaning you have to re-double your efforts and learn new IT tricks every day it seems and diversify too. Out on my ride in an hour or two and catch the last of the rays, Cannock Chase on Monday, so it's not all doom and gloom.

Tim

Photography started going downhill after bloody George Eastman invented film and sounded the death knell of the glass plate.

Personally I can't be arsed now that every Tom, Dick and Harry has a sodding digital SLR. These days if I really want to capture an image I tend to whip out my oil paints and knock out a miniature on a convenient piece of scavenged cardboard.

Next you'll bemoaning that the Internet isn't what it once used to be!

Tim