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Someone once asked me if I knew of anywhere there were interesting rows of supermarket shopping trolleys, at that time, I'd never even given it a thought, but have been casually looking ever since. This one though really grabbed my attention, Ihad just come out of Sainsburys supermarket when I saw this line up of trolleys with theit colourful handlebars lined up in the wet, and just as a bonus, there was reflection in the wet pavement.

I once had a run in with two angels, both claiming to be school teachers on vacation, is that why they got in their car and disappeared without driving off? Anyway this pair had just come out of the Howarth art gallery in Accrington, and we got chatting, and they said one thing that really hit home, and when I'm feeling uninspired I bring back to mind just what they said. i.e. "We're not happy people unless we take three hundred pictures a day." not a very inspiring comment on the surface, but it did speak to me.

Here's how, to take three hundred pictures a day, they must have been shooting anything and everything, everything had potential to them. To take three hundred pictures a day, they were putting all earthly cares behind them and the very act of photographing was almost prayerful, everything became secondary to going out and recording God's world that surrounded them, in other words just open yourself to let God be your courier and let him point out to you the things He wants you to see, its by His grace.

I use those words, "We're not happy people unless we take three hundred shots a day," as a sort of prayer, God usually answers that, I may not take anywhere near three hundred shots a day, but I begin to see the potential in all sorts of things, and that's when I start shooting.