 How's it? How's it guys? And welcome to 2022 here on The Photographic Eye. Now I haven't actually been abducted by aliens or joined some mysterious circus that has disappeared over the horizon. I've been busy putting and planning all the content for The Photographic Eye going into 2022. I've also been busy putting together some options for you for image feedback from myself where we can get a lot of discussion going about your photography. A lot of you have asked me if there is an option for that, so I'm very pleased to say that there is now. And I've also created a course that will teach you how to speak visually through your photographs or to learn the language of photography. I'm an extremely strong believer in that the best way to improve your photography is to learn the language that we use through our images to give them more impact, to give them more emotional resonance with people who are viewing our photographs. Or at the very least, to give you a little bit more of this kind of feeling of control about the images that you're taking, that you are crafting from all the stuff that surrounds us. Rather than it feeling like it kind of is just like luck sometimes. So if you're interested in those two options, I put the link in the description box below. Please go and check it out. Give me your feedback. Let me know your thoughts in the comments below. One of the things I'm really pleased about happening into 2022 is putting the content that you enjoy into sort of various buckets, if you want to call it that. So we have like inspirational content. So this is looking at great photographers. And I feel kind of slightly drifted away from looking at great photographers in 2021. And so I'm bringing more of that in. So each week we're going to look at a fantastic photographer, you know, sort of older photographers, people from the past, but also current and new photography. Because there is a lot of that around. And I think, you know, occasionally, certainly me in the past, I've sort of tended to sort of skim over it a little bit. So that's that's one fantastic bucket of content there. The other one is kind of, you know, inspirational content, you know, photographs and ideas and things that inspire you to, you know, think about your photography in a different way to, you know, go off and feel that you want to, you know, go and create photographs of what you're seeing on the screen. I remember I used to watch skateboard videos, you know, back when I was younger. And we would watch, you know, like, you know, the Bones Brigade and all those sort of people I'm showing my age now, you know, doing all their tricks and stuff like that. And then we would go off during the summer holidays and pretend to be, you know, the Tony Hawks of the day. And hopefully we can inspire that sort of inspiration within you as well. And then there's kind of the educational entertainment kind of things, you know, learning something new, not from a very studious, you know, strokey beard. Kind of way. But from, you know, sort of like here, is this something you've thought about? Maybe this is a concept that you've sort of possibly struggled with. And the way that it is now presented to you that I can show it to you, you know, gives you a different insight into that. So hopefully with those sort of three, you know, sort of buckets and buckets actually sounds like a terrible word, doesn't it? Those three sort of like ideas that the core concepts will be running across the channel. So it gives you a bit more of a structure and a focus within the sort of content you might want to enjoy. So I'm very, you know, happy and excited to see how that goes with us throughout the year. It's always a great time for a little bit of reflection, you know, thinking about what's gone on in the past and what's going forward. And this will be the second full year of doing the photographic eye for me. And I've learned a lot certainly from the feedback that you guys give me, you know, from what happens amongst the channels. About planning out and having an idea about the content that is going forward. And I've been taking a lot of time during January and to think about the sort of content that is resonating with you guys, the content that you respond to that you get excited about. As always, you know, please let me know any thoughts in that matter in the comments. And I've taken the time to try and plan out some of the content. I'm not rushing at the last minute to put things together for you because I really enjoy sharing my thoughts about photography with you. I've seen some comments on places like Reddit and what have you where other people, you know, unbeknownst to me, have said really wonderful, lovely things about the channel. And this is all what makes it worth so worthwhile is to hear the feedback, and I think that a lot of you have used the word inspiration that you have been inspired to go out and pick up a camera again. And especially this time of year, you know, begin to the end of the winter and maybe the beginning of the winter, who knows, right? But, you know, we've been inside the weather's been, you know, there's been all the other stuff that's been going on, which I won't mention. And, you know, and it feels like hopefully 2022 will see the back of certainly all of that, you know, starting to fade away. And also, you know, great weather, the weather's are coming in. It's been sunny here the last few days. And that's always a lovely sort of thing. So I think, you know, the next couple of months we can start gearing ourselves up to the great flurry of activity in photography that seems to happen around the summer. So we start being more, you know, keen to go out and actually stand outside for more than 10 minutes at a time. It's wonderful to have you here on this journey with me. And as I said, you know, reading the comments in here on places like Reddit and stuff, it makes it all so, so very worthwhile. And I'd just like to take this opportunity once again to thank you ever so much. Regular content is going to be starting again in February. And we're going to stick to the schedule that we had in October, November and sort of somewhat of December, where it's three videos a week. So we're doing Monday, Wednesday and Friday. In addition to those videos on the members only site and again, the link is in the description box below. I give you the opportunity to have your images critiques on me during a live stream we do once a month with those members. It dawned on me the other day, then on the 20th of November, was it 2020? So that's a nice round number, isn't it? I've posted my very first video a bit, Richard Abaddon. If you haven't seen it and you want to see me waffle at the camera for at least five minutes before I even show you one photograph, then click on this video here just to see how far we've come.