I always find I am editing right until the deadline. I still have ideas I want to explore and want to use the time left to the maximum. On the other hand, I am always playing catchup and there is nothing like a deadline to be inspired. It’s the way I work and I have learned over the years to live with it. I have never missed a deadline during this course and been fortunate enough not to request an extension. I’ve found the Covid epidemic has, in some ways, helped me. It allowed me to concentrate without too much disturbance. That said, I had to change my project from a seaside theme to mainly archive photography. I’ve found I have used my scanner more than I have used my camera, which has been very refreshing and this has opened up new avenues in my practice. I have also started using film cameras again after a 20-year absence and learnt to develop my own film. At the beginning of this course, I had almost given up on photography and I found I was stuck with the same old pictures, desperately trying to find a new path. The MA course has opened my eyes to what photography can be, not just using a camera but using many techniques to form an image. It was said to me; ‘you are not only a photographer but an artist now’. Where this new knowledge takes me, I don’t know, but what I can say its transformed my life. I am sad that the course is at an end now. I have met some inspiring people along the way and made some good friends.