Illusion of Progress

Woke to the realization that my “progress,” as evidenced by my photographic futzing around, is a mirage, nothing more than the illusion of progress.

My prior photographic process was rigid and constrained. It had to be. I was using small format cameras and targeting the output to physical media, typically 11×17″ paper stock. Or I was targeting print publications in a CMYK colour space at 300 dpi. I have been able to abandon my prior standard process as I am now targeting digital media with 72 dpi 1000×288 pixel images in an sRGB colour space. This is a much lower standard of image quality.
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Cheques from Jekyll and Hyde

Have spent the past three hours trying to sort out cancelled cheques for reimbursement.

I am only dealing with 4 items.

I find I have made many mistakes in my record keeping. I think I made payments when there were no sessions with Dr H. On the dates when I did have sessions, I recorded the dates incorrectly. On the dates for which I made a correct date entry, I misreported the cheque number. I have had to dig through all of my prior files to try and correctly resolve what should be an extremely simple set of events.
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