For the last year, I’ve been working on a project about the Lincolnshire Meridian.
Here’s the story – last October (gosh a year ago now), I completed my ARPS with a project on Fine Art, and the Lincolnshire Landscape. I’d also been a member of a project orientated group (Lincolnshire Image Makers) and quite separately, another group of four, who decided that we would each make a new project which we could then present as a talk to be used at camera clubs, and elsewhere.
Some of you may understand the feeling of relief after completing something challenging like the ARPS – but after the results were in, and I’d passed, there was a certain feeling of ‘what shall I do now?’.
My project was to take the Meridian line through the county, and record interesting facts and pictures, and hopefully learn a bit on the way. I didn’t think it would take so long.
12 months later, and the job is pretty much done. It involved innumerable trips out – lots of research, and a trip to Greenwich to complete the section on John Harrison (Clockmaker, and calculator of Longitude) and his clocks.
There’s still one bit to get – Barrow (up near the Humber Bridge) is having a statue of Harrison made and installed in their market place. I was hoping to get this to complete the project, but as of the time of writing, it’s not taken place. The statue is being made – they seem to have all the funding in place, but it’s not been installed.
My first booking to give the talk is on September 30th – at my home camera club Cleethorpes – and I hope that they’ll give me a friendly reception as I bumble my way through a first reading.
I’m sort of excited and nervous at the same time.
Three days after that – I’m to give it again, at another club – further afield. I’m not naming names in case it all goes AWOL !
Anyway – the Meridian project is done, apart from a few tweaks now, and it’s a relief.
I’m not entirely sure what the next project will be yet, but we have plans to do a joint one about either the Lincolnshire coastline, or the Fitties, or something else.
In the meantime, I need to sort something just for me again.
Looking forward to your talk at Melbourne Photography club on Oct 3rd ….there I’ve let the cat out of the bag. You are committed now 🙂
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Well done Diane, yes it has turned out a little longer project than first thought, but I am sure it will be very well received where ever you show it ( I know it will) you have put a lot of effort into this project and it is full of great information and first class pictures.
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Thank you brother…… 🙂
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Well done! Enjoy sharing your photographs and information about this lovely project with groups. I am sure they will be kind.
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Fingers crossed…. LOL
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