It is that cold bleak month that is December. Getting up and getting home in the dark, compounded by the fact that the shortest day comes past too, and whilst you know this marks a turning point, you also know that theres a good eight weeks before you start to feel the difference again. At least this is where I am.

For me it has also been a month of deadlines with my practical project for this semester due in and time in the dark room is very limited. I did meet the deadline though and was very pleased with final prints but less so with the research file. It’s a new way of doing things for me and many a lesson has been learnt.

Otherwise the snow has caused havoc in my life over the last three days.

Mr & Mrs Lambert are now Mr & Mrs Lambert after a beautiful wedding in a Highland Cathedral. I took their photos and now face the task of sifting and sorting and providing them with the final images. There are just under 2000 of them.

My weekends have been full of time away. Generally these have been wet. A trip to Wales that saw me sleeping in the Llanberris pass. Not because the tent would leak but that we would be so soaked by the time we put it up that we would never get dry. Went up Snowdon the following day, knee deep in snow and that evening dashed for a bunk house. I had hopped to get a look around some of the quarries but there was no chance. A trip for the summer.

What lies ahead? A mad few days with more hours than I care to spend in a car,  family affairs and then New Year. I love New Year and have been offered a chance to go somewhere that I’m not sure I can turn down. I may just have to pack in enough other Urbex that I can forgive myself and go partying. But we shall see.

Anyway, I imagine this will be my last post of 2009. I hope that the readers (the scattered handful of you) have a great Christmas and an even better New Year.

See you in 2010.

Tigger