The closer we get to the end of the Harborough project the more I have come to realise that this is my collection of images. It is not whether they properly reflect the area it is that they reflect what I saw. To understand this you have to understand how David and I work. We normally visit an area and then capture images that meet our needs: his image that will inspire a painting and my need is help create a coherent photo essay. The result of this is very very different. Yet to both us they make sense.

I guess what I am saying is that should you, dear reader, have wandered through the centre of Market Harborough yesterday you would have captured a series of images that would have been different to what either of us. They might have been better. They have been worse. Whatever the case they would have been your images in much as the same way these are mine.

It is the same with the words I have written. They are my ‘unedited ramblings’. They are not the anodised and americanised words that the WordPress AI insists would make this blog so much better. I am not an American and my language cannot be parsed to pass as one. Given everything that is going on at the moment perhaps it might be in everybody’s best interest that an American piece of software stop telling everyone else how to write.

(Note: since I wrote that last sentence the AI seems to have stopped showing what it thinks I should write…spooky. Do AI sulk?)