I have often struggled with boredom. Boredom is not the same for everybody. What bores me may excite you, and vice versa.

My first fulltime job was working in a outboard motor factory. They hired me to test engines, but instead they put me to work in the machine shop. Milling or drilling the same pieces of metal the same way, over and over and over. Mind numbingly boring. I asked if I could please do the job I was hired for and they agreed. Still somewhat boring but at least, there would be issues with some motors, and that would mean I needed to repair something or replace something. Every single moment wasn’t just like the last.

Even worse was those poor souls who worked on the assembly line. The same screw in the same place for eight straight hours, five days a week. One could go insane I would think.

After I left that job for the rest of my working life, when I worked for others, my job kept me out and about. Truck driving, delivery, outside commissioned sales, helped running an auto auction. There was always something different happening.

As a photographer I did studio photography, I photographed weddings and did outdoor portraits. I was a car racing photographer and a nature photographer.

As a car racing photographer I photographed every sort of race car in every sort of race that I could.

As most of you know, I not only photographed every creature, landscape, sky or plant in nature that was possible, as well as pure abstractions of color or design. If I was out making images of birds and an airplane flew into view, I would make a picture of the plane.

My friends in my life have had every different style and personality as could be imagined. From one side to the other. I enjoy people who differ from one another.

Today, after all these years, the only way I can cut the grass is to use a variety of different angles and patterns of doing so. This despite the fact that the finished product so to speak, is lacking somewhat in uniformity. Going perfectly straight back and forth would drive me crazy.

At times, I would realize that how I did some things, like with the positional or technical aspects of photography, would be better served by repeating the mechanics used from one image to another. Maybe, if I was repetitive in some of my basic actions, it would make my variety of subjects and styles, come out better..

So I repeated that so my images were not too repetitive.

Many of the things I like, and find fulfilling, might be boring to you. And vice versa. We are all created uniquely different with our own tolerances and sensibilities.

I chose today’s images using the throwing a dart against the wall concept, and taking whatever sticks method. They are all nature related. The folder and hard drive they came from, hadn’t been opened in years. They are mostly different, one from another.

May God Bless, and enjoy your day,
Wayne