View Full Version : New years resolution time - Post them here
hypnotic
27-12-2006, 06:24
It's coming up to that time of year when we all start making promises that we end up breaking.
Post them here and we will be your conscious.
Here we go ... I will start.
To start my wedding photography business
Give up smoking
Get fit
Change jobs
Quite a lot to do but if I can manage three of them I will be happy
Find a job plus all the usual ones:
Stop smoking
Lose weight
Get fit
:D :D :D
Darksider
27-12-2006, 07:14
Lose weight.
To stop drinking so much beer.
Get out with the camera more often.
h.r.ford
27-12-2006, 08:15
I find the more specific you are the better!
- lose two dress sizes by April
-work out for 30 minutes 4x a week
-learn how to set up lighting for studio work (think Rob will be helping with that one in February)
-earn enough money with equine photography to afford 70-200 f2.8
Think that will be it for now.
:thinking: lose 2 and a half stone
save some money
spend more time with the kids and wife
learn more about the camara
get better bird shots.
:naughty: well ill try anyway
Venomator
27-12-2006, 08:28
Get out more ... :p
ME that is ... :D
Cos it will ensure I do the other stuff I have had precious little time to do this past year ... :thinking:
... Spend more quality time with my wife, Jill ... :love:
... Dump some of the excess from not doing so for almost a year ... :shrug:
... And use the expensive gear I bought to help me do all of the above ... amongst other things ... like taking photographs ... :eek:
Best of luck in yours ... I know I will not be as diligent as I should with most of mine ... :naughty:
:p
Give up smoking
Stop smoking
And another here, if I manage that I'll be happy
Dark Star
27-12-2006, 09:20
Same as ever year:
* Lose weight
* Get fit
and one extra....
* Master my camera (well make a start, anyway!!!!!!)
Oh and one more:
* Sell one of my images somehow or someway!!!!
To take my camera with we where ever I go so that I don't miss the opportunity to get the shot I would otherwise miss.
lost count how many times in 2006 I said "if only I had my camera with me" :bonk:
For all those who wanted to quit smoking, a little tip.
I tried everything to quit, except for hypnotherapy or Zyban...Nothing I tried worked. Until I happened upon this book. It's a godsend
Allen Carr's Easyway to Stop Smoking (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Allen-Carrs-Easy-Stop-Smoking/dp/0141026898/sr=8-1/qid=1167218056/ref=pd_ka_1/026-8441794-2953241?ie=UTF8&s=books)
:agree:
Worked for me too. That was 10 years ago and I've never lit one since, and more importantly - never WANTED to :clap:
I mentioned my main resolution in another thread ...
Must stop fixating on camera equipment (especially lenses - I have changed them so often I was thinking of changing my Forum Name to "Specsavers")
Get out more with camera
Lose a stone
Stop taking tablets for back pain (had surgery in May!)
Paul :thumbs:
For all those who wanted to quit smoking, a little tip.
I tried everything to quit, except for hypnotherapy or Zyban...Nothing I tried worked. Until I happened upon this book. It's a godsend
Allen Carr's Easyway to Stop Smoking (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Allen-Carrs-Easy-Stop-Smoking/dp/0141026898/sr=8-1/qid=1167218056/ref=pd_ka_1/026-8441794-2953241?ie=UTF8&s=books)
Ironically he died of Lung cancer.
Anyway...."Quiting is for losers!"
Quit smoking. Alan Carr didn't work for me, apart from being an incredibly boring read. I think you need to be self-motivated and really want to do it. I packed in for a year once and found it remarkably easy tbh, then started having the odd 'social' fag, which of course bolloxed me up completely. :D
To improve the quality of my photo's (that should hopefully be a lot easier next year with all the hints and tips I have learnt from here)
To learn photoshop so that my post processing is more than just adjusting the brightness!
To spend more time with family and friends rather than at work!
Lose a few pounds here! :D
Jewel
I hear the exchange rate is good. Send me 50 dollars and thats a few pounds gone :D
1. Stop drinking.
2. Finish my game (and sell it).
3. Move house.
I hear the exchange rate is good. Send me 50 dollars and thats a few pounds gone :D
:lol: :p
1. loose some weight.
2. Get one picture published.
Hopefully loose the pounds finding the picture!
minimeeze
27-12-2006, 16:33
To get fit
Do a nude pose
Get out and about more
Do more photography
To get fit
Do a nude pose
Get out and about more
Do more photography
Thanks chuck...That's gonna treble our visitor numbers :thumbs:
Mine..
Lose weight....and lots of it :$
Set up my photoblog, and post one photo per day to it.
Learn to be more confident, especially when taking photos.
Procrastinate less, and be a better timekeeper ;)
minimeeze
27-12-2006, 16:56
Thanks chuck...That's gonna treble our visitor numbers :thumbs:
Ah... but I never said I'd share the shot(s) on here :p Wouldn't want to scare our younger members away :lol:
Venomator
27-12-2006, 17:22
Ah... but I never said I'd share the shot(s) on here :p Wouldn't want to scare our younger members away :lol:
Oh ... so it's OK to scare the older ones away is it ... Hrmph ... :razz:
:D
:p
Mine is to learn to cook
To learn more about photography and to hopefully take some good photos
:canon:
whiteflyer
27-12-2006, 17:40
Do a nude pose
Is that an offer for the next TP meet :D
minimeeze
27-12-2006, 17:47
Is that an offer for the next TP meet :D
Definitely not :p
For me it has to be, spend a little more time with the family! I saw my sister like twice last year! So thats one.....
Secondly,
Take my photography another step further (its been an amazing year for me) lets hope 2007 will be even more amazinger, if thats such a word, if not then its appropriate! :)
Ed :)
get my camera back
lose a bit of weight
get out with the camera that i dont have at the moment
To get back to the steep learning curve I began with my camera.
To look forward instead of back.
To learn to like myself.
Ah... but I never said I'd share the shot(s) on here :p Wouldn't want to scare our younger members away :lol:
You don't need to mini...just the mention of it will be enough....
/warns host of increasing bandwidth requirements :D
You don't need to mini...just the mention of it will be enough....
/warns host of increasing bandwidth requirements :D
He! he! ... I think there'll also be rather a lot of peeps offering to give up their time to make sure this is one resolution you definately stick to Min! :lol:
I think Min/Glo/Janice should do a calendar girls type thingy for next years forum calendar :love:
digitalfailure
27-12-2006, 19:47
Well
I'm just about bl00dy perfect, so i'm not going to make any !
Ok........i'm awake now
i'm going to try very hard to................
lose this last ½ stone
actually try and learn to take a photograph
stop being a misrible git
eat more healthily
3 of them should be do'able :)
EOSAddict
27-12-2006, 20:33
Sell a photograph... ;)
RickMezza
27-12-2006, 20:47
lose a load of weight (I say that every year :help: )
spend more time on my motorbike :thumbs:
spend less time on computers :thumbsdown:
pursuade my wife to let me see Mini's nude pics :D :exit:
He! he! ... I think there'll also be rather a lot of peeps offering to give up their time to make sure this is one resolution you definately stick to Min! :lol:
Well i would offer my time up to help with that one, but i dont wanna be accused of being a dirty old man ! :lol:
Well i would offer my time up to help with that one, but i dont wanna be accused of being a dirty old man ! :lol:
Be better if I do it Ian, I'm already a well known dirty old man! :naughty:
minimeeze
27-12-2006, 21:04
pursuade my wife to let me see Mini's nude pics :D :exit:
:eek:
Your wife is trying to talk me into a nudist holiday :lol:
HIMUPNORTH
27-12-2006, 21:20
My list is sooo long
#1 Gain weight
#2 Start smoking
#3 See less of my loved ones
#4 Stop selling photographs
#5 ignore photo opportunities
and finallly
#6 stop telling so many porkies! :D
Actually my list is simple and if I can stick to it all will be well; Be less selfish, agree more, look after myself but not worry about a few pounds, let my kids tell ME what I am doing wrong, oh and along the way ....keep taking photos!
No doubt by December 31st I will have a more refined version but that will do for starters.:)
LOL
My list is pretty simple too,
Find a job where im not taken for granted and paid what i am worth !
Find someone who wants me for me not my earning potential !
Not to keep running myself down so much !
LOL
My list is pretty simple too,
Find a job where im not taken for granted and paid what i am worth !
Find someone who wants me for me not my earning potential !
Not to keep running myself down so much !
Great list there Ian. :D
Jewel
PS, I want to do a nude pose as well min,not sure why though, lol I have to lose the chunk first though,lol Already got someone willing to do the shoot, just got to get the nerve to do it. :D
Diabolos137
27-12-2006, 21:38
Stop smoking....
Take more photos
I shall be bumping this thread periodically through the year to encourage you all to make the most of these resolutions you know :)
Right then - here goes....
Get at least one pic published by submission in our Speedway weekly mag.
Enter at least one photographic competition per month
Get out of my comfort zones more. I CAN do candid stuff, it just scares the hell out of me!
And finally a non-photography one...
Lose weight!
1. Improve my photography
2 Tone up my flabby body
3. Get a more enjoyable job
4. Go to uni
5. Drink more!!! :nuts:
6. Drive less
7. Travel more
8. Take CBT test
I'm going to stop ****ing swearing. :)
hmmm...not sure there's room on here for them all, but the main one's are...
To learn to drive...(This has been one now for about the last 10 years!)
To learn to take fabulous photos
To try to be less emotional and more objective
Diego Garcia
28-12-2006, 07:23
Go to a small military run country and start a coup.
Ah, sorry, misread that....
I thought you said revolution!!!!!! :)
RickMezza
28-12-2006, 09:26
:eek:
Your wife is trying to talk me into a nudist holiday :lol:
now that doesn't surprise me at all :p . No chance of me going, so it'll be you then.
...have fun :lol:
on1) Save money - this is going to be a really tough one! Someone slap me if I say I'm buying any more lens.
2) Learn Spanish
3) Go to Spain - this will contradict 1) above.
4) Compile 12/13 photos for my own calendar for 2008.
5) to work on my badminton back hand shot (it's really lame at the moment) and my fore hand lobbing from one end of the court to the other end. I can just about get one end of the court to about more 2/3rd of the way on the other half.
photostar_1
28-12-2006, 12:50
I'm sick of saying each year "loose some weight" cos it just doesn't happen, so:
1. Take better pics than those I did this year
2. See more of my Mum
3. Stop being a nag.....(hmmm, might be really difficult);)
digitalfailure
28-12-2006, 20:10
I'm sick of saying each year "loose some weight" cos it just doesn't happen, so:
1. Take better pics than those I did this year
2. See more of my Mum
3. Stop being a nag.....(hmmm, might be really difficult);)
A quick question about No.3.....is that actually possible for a woman to do? :shrug:
No.2 is a cracker and one I think i'd like to have added to my wee list. :)
LmidgitD
28-12-2006, 21:50
1. Upgrade to a 1000cc motorcycle.
2. Upgrade to a dslr.
3. Keep going strong in college.
photostar_1
28-12-2006, 21:54
[QUOTE=digitalfailure;171452]A quick question about No.3.....is that actually possible for a woman to do? :shrug: Ask me next december :lol: Better still, ask my husband :lol: :lol:
Ooh I love new years resolutions.
:p
Lose weight
Do more photography
Earn money from music
Record bands album
Go to America :D
Buy Sigma 10-20mm
- Save enough money to go on a decent holiday!
- Reduce my student loan (not sure i'll bother yet!)
- Take some photos i can be proud of :)
I want to go to Disneyland this year, erm I mean take the kids on a fun filled vacation to the most magical place in the world. They deserve it!!!:D
Things are looking good too, so we shall see. :D
Jewel
1) stop bein a grumpy git with laura in the mornings
2) Stop being lazy with my photography
3) Try and give up smoking
4) See more of the people I love
Simple really.........
I want to go to Disneyland this year, erm I mean take the kids on a fun filled vacation to the most magical place in the world. They deserve it!!!:D
Things are looking good too, so we shall see. :D
Jewel
I have been to the Euro one, it was sh.... erm rubbish ! ;)
Have heard the US ones are much better but i dont have any kids to take so i doubt ill find out ! lol
Not going to bother with losing weight it never happens so mine would be
To stay on my motorbike
Not break any more bones (it hurts)
Get out more with the camera
And lastly try and join a band again.
mfwild13
28-12-2006, 23:46
Lose weight
Build muscles
Buy a longer lens that CT :eek:
HIMUPNORTH
29-12-2006, 16:48
I have been to the Euro one, it was sh.... erm rubbish ! ;)
Have heard the US ones are much better but i dont have any kids to take so i doubt ill find out ! lol
Want to take mine? :shrug:
:D
Not so much resolutions as goals:
1) Stop getting sick - stress fracture in 2006 has me off my feet for months and now the bloody ulcer - so assuming I live long enough then...
2) 2007 is the year of turning pro. Already got a couple more jobs lined up and some things on the boil and I know it's up to me to get out there and make it happen.
Want to take mine? :shrug:
:D
Think i would rather not find out to be honest ;)
Should post this as a sticky - A reminder to all !! There was a great thread on Mens Health about a fella determined to lose about 5 stone over a year and the thread as well as being a hilarious read, became a huge motivation to others... We should post weight loss photo's every week - OK, step to far !!
Warspite
31-12-2006, 13:46
Sure I answered one of these, must have been someone elses thread :thinking:
Basically to be more motivated - to get out more and do things, instead of erring on indecision and then not bothering, missed soo many opportunities from being a lazy git recently :(
hypnotic
31-12-2006, 14:01
Yeah! .... Like to say sorry to the person who posted this thread before.
I did not see it until after I posted this one.
Keltic Ice Man
31-12-2006, 16:07
1. to put some pics on a stock site - might need some help from you guys :)
2. Be less grumpy
3. ... (well I know what it is :) )
1.Complete my home studio/music room
2.Use it!
3.and still make more time for my wife
for those struggling with the smoking, try this; smoke for 25 years, get sick, get scared, and realise that life is actually a better option.
Worked for me, no fags since july 2005 and never looked back.
Some photo resolutions (http://www.photojojo.com/content/photojojo-original/new-years-photo-resolutions/), no not 8mp ;) Just a few good ideas.
Some photo resolutions (http://www.photojojo.com/content/photojojo-original/new-years-photo-resolutions/), no not 8mp ;) Just a few good ideas.
Thanks for that Pete,
I quite fancied the photo a day but think that I might end up giving that up all too quickly.
Ive alread started no.3 ... Got the manual out last night .... decided already, I WILL improve my knowledge this year.
digitalfailure
01-01-2007, 21:05
To get back to the steep learning curve I began with my camera.
To look forward instead of back.
To learn to like myself.
I've already started number 3.. Got the manual out last night..decided already,I WILL improve my knowlege this year.
I'm lost here......that just sounds soooooooooooooo :naughty:
Your a baaaaaaaaaaad girlie Glo
:clap:
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