Whether to let wither

I’m still considering whether to let this thing die. I thought it would be a relatively simple job to keep going, uploading images, describing the techniques of scale model photography. Instead, I find the difficulties of doing relatively simple tasks are making me disinterested.

Equally, I don’t even think the raison d’être behind my original plan — to share what I think of as my skills — holds water any more. It’s too narrow a subject, for example. However, to widen the scope of this blog to cover all kinds of photography would be just as much a waste of time. Others do it far better than I can do it, so why waste effort duplicating everything?

So, what to do? I think I shall continue to mull over my original ideas, to see if there is any merit in perseverance. If I find there is not, then I shall scrap the whole thing. Alternatively, I may just slide Snaptophobia gently sideways to make it a more general photographic rediscovery blog. Watch this space, as they say. Oh, I forgot — hardly anyone does!

Incidentally, the name Snaptophobia came from an old friend, who would refer to an attractive assemblage of items as “snaptophobic”, meaning it would make a great picture. I fully realise -phobic means to have “an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something”, which means this whole blog really ought to be about my irrational fear of photography! Then again, the more correct -philia (denoting fondness, especially an abnormal love for a specified thing) could be taken completely the wrong way by certain sections of our society who perhaps don’t have an adequate understanding of our glorious language and who may link it to other less savoury practices involving … let’s not go there.