The metaphor is of course of money vanishing. The shot that I had in my own mind was of notes being blasted into the air by a gust of air, and being caught mid flutter as they fly off into the distance.

But do you know how difficult it is to get currency notes to behave that way in a literal rather than metaphorical sense? Scrooge McDuck could probably do it but he has a lot more of them to play with than I do.

After the car registration (CTP green slip insurance almost $500, registration north of $300, service north of $200), my Lynda.com renewal coming up ($375), a stack of textbooks, a few medical bills and other recurring and non-recurring expenses, money flew out the door as if it was jet propelled over the course of February. And although I haven't captured it in quite the way I'd like, the ghostly semi-appearance of the $20 notes which blew away in the course of the exposure goes some way to indicating the ephemeral nature of the funding.

The primary lesson learnt is not to wait until the night of a shot to rehearse it in the hope that it will go as planned.

Now when it comes to the thumbnail for "Last Year", I have a quandary. There was no 'last year' for February the 29th. And I didn't shoot anything on 29 February 2008, the last leap year either. But I did shoot something on 27 February of that year. In fact, it was almost the same shot as my first PAD, the one that I return to on 18 January each year, but two years earlier. In this case, there's a huge difference from the three images in my PAD galleries (2010. 2011 and 2012), as the park was a long way from completion and the old White Bay car receiving dock was still open on the far side of the bay.

Last (Leap) Year, More Or Less