In From The Cold

An unseasonable minus 27 c. is keeping me indoors (yes, I know, I'm being a wimp). Here's a few things you might do when you can't or won't go out shooting.

1) Back up your important images to DVD. Back up your raw files too, in case future raw processors improve (they did already compared to two years ago).
2) Throw out images you are sure you will never use - start with all the technically flawed images, the duplicates in which the grass hadn't stopped swinging, etc.
3) Scan some old and favourite images.
4) Try a still-life. The winner of this years's 'Black and White Photography' magazine award is a still-life of some tulips.
5) Submit a series of related images for publication.
6) Dust that sensor, clean your lenses.
7) Make a viewing frame to hang round your neck (cardboard or plastic with cutout window shape of your camera format)
8) Pad those cold metal tripod legs.
9) Pick up some photography magazines - no not the ones full of ads and with very little content - get ones with images in them - for example 'Camera Arts', 'B&W', 'Focus', 'Lenswork', 'Silvershots', 'Black and White Photography'
10) This is your chance to create, update, spiff up or generally improve your website.