Happy New Year 2025

A note and a to do list!

Wishing you a Happy New Year 202​5

​It's not been an easy year for many but despite its difficulties it's been a memorable one for me. I turned 50, I fulfilled a lifelong dream of going to Japan, travelled to Romania, then back to Tangier after 30 years amongst other wonderful experiences.

​I hope that this new year is fill​ed with hope, kindness for one another, compassion, joy, friendship, creativity, inspiration and adventure.

​As I have said before, we need to enjoy and appreciate what we have and wherever possible make small changes towards a better future.

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis

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I am not one for resolutions and have somehow always followed the school year but January is usually a quieter month for me and after that busy moment at Christmas and then the lull between Christmas and New Year where you can hibernate a little it is nice to start a new year with a good workflow and a clean up. I am also hoping to hibernate for a little bit longer but we shall see what lies ahead!

As a professional photographer, a solo one woman band this is what my January looks like. In no particular order this is what I do. Feel free to ignore (obviously) or take what you find useful. Any questions then please do send me a message.

• Clean both laptop and desktop - removing files and organising folders.

• Purge and organise downloads folder (it’s amazing how many files/photos are stored or downloaded here)

• Clear up desktop & organise on the computer (again for me it becomes a dumping ground)

• Look at hard drives, back up and order a new one(s) if needed. (very important)

• Organise your new hard drive and set up a 2025 folder.

• Organise my Lightroom (it takes up a lot of space on the disk). Kim Klassen has a great one to walk you through: New Year Lightroom Check Up.

• Send out a New Years card which helps me organise and clean up my contact list (very important)

• All accounts for 2024

• Clean out (physical) desk and organise random papers, post it notes, business cards etc

• Look at my website and update with new work.

• Start planning - floating a few dreams and ideas around

• Finish off all post production from last year

• unsubscribe (the amount of things I’m subscribed to is horrifying)

• clean up phone, offload unused apps (double check as I just found out that you are not paying for apps you don’t use)

• clean up and purge email accounts (I have over 20,000 emails - 20,000!!! Horrifying!)