Here we go again, for the 5th year.

For me 2013 had some wonderful moments. But it also had some absolute cr@p moments and on balance, I'm glad to see the back of it. My PADing in 2013 was also less than optimal but did have one redeeming feature; it's the first time that I shot a PAD on more days than the previous year since I started. Not that 2012 was a massively hard target to beat.

I start 2014 with one hand behind my back photographically speaking. In the first place I have yet to replace the failed 24-105 lens on my 40D. The other more critical one is that I'm still desperately short of time to photograph. Relying primarily on the Olympus E-P1 backup camera I'm not optimistic about creating great works of art and will be doing more story-telling than artistic aspiration for at least the first month or so.

However I was trying something artistic before taking this shot. I had been down in the garage trying to create an effect with the LEDs of some of my power tool batteries. The results weren't quite as I may have hoped. When I came back up the stairs I was confronted by this, lying at the head of the stairs. El Gato Diablo, a.k.a. Lucy. "What you waz doin' down there? Doez it in any way get meh fuud?" (Being 8kg, she quite likes her fuud. And expects me to get her the first course of her "breaffass" when I get up at 04:10 each day.)

I was going to dump all 12 days of my 2014 photos up tonight, but I figured that this one deserved a little time in the sun.