A nice Christmas day spent with my parents and Deborah, our first together in 3 years as her last two saw her confined at work due to Covid-19 isolation.
I've spent part of today filming a few more scenes for 'Fear Of The Thing Itself'. One key thing to do when making films is use manual settings for everything. Automatic exposure/lighting, and automatic white balance, utterly destroy creativity. I filmed one scene today using the lights to change the exposure live and it looked good, making the queen 'glow':
I must continue to push for my best in everything. I must continue to search and seek, to strive and struggle. At the end of every year I think that the past year has been terrible, hard, difficult, and full of struggle and worry; and at the start of each year I look forwards to a new and better year of success and peace. Yet each year turns out to be one of harshness, difficulty, poverty, struggle, and worry! I know now that this will always be the case. Every day I must do my best irrespective of fate's whims. Every day I have. Every day I will.
Onwards to 2025 I gaze with itensity.
