Yearly Theme 2024 (Photography | Travel | Creative | Heritage) – Ignite 

Before I start on my reflections and review of Year 2024, let me bring you back in time to January 2024 when I wrote and published my Yearly Theme 2024 (Photography | Travel | Creative | Heritage) – Ignite. 

While I didn’t manage to ignite my travel photography and travel related segments, I did manage to ignite my visual storytelling, writing and content creation.  

Photography

Photography is both work/business as well as personal interest/visual storyteller, what’s YR2024 like for my photography segments?

Photography (Business)

This industry is getting more challenging and difficult, a shrinking market pie, shrinking marketing budgets and there are more photographers in this industry (whether full-time, content creators or freelancers). Add in geo-political situations and slow/poor world economic situations, year 2024 can be a tricky year for many of us creatives, photographers, videographers.

The year 2024 had been a number of ups and downs for my TGH Photography business, the cyclical nature of events (business or leisure), conferences/exhibitions, and various photography genres, do make running a photography business a balancing act at times.

Looking back at 2024, reviewing and reflecting, on top of bringing in more photography business deals, I would also need to look at planning and trying to ensure a more regular and consistent photography shoots, along with content creation assignments/projects throughout the year.

Photography (Personal)

Quite a fruitful and fulfilling YR2024 for my personal photography although I wasn’t creating and publishing visual stories as much as I would love to. Here are some significant happenings that took place in my personal photography journeys in YR2024:

• Getting onboard as a writer for ephemere Tokyo, has given me an international platform to broaden my visual storytelling horizons and perspectives, let’s see where this brings me in 2025
• Following, supporting and documenting In A Rainbow for the year 2024 and Modulation: Amalgamation exhibition by House of VSE
• A fruitful bird photography 2024 during bird migration seasons Jan – Mar 2024 and Oct – Dec 2024

Travel 

I didn’t go for any overseas travel in 2024, it’s time to break this barren travel period and restart my travel in 2025. Only when I return back to my overseas travel photography, would I be able to do more or revive my travel photography projects/plans. 

Although the overseas travel photography assignment didn’t materialise, I just have to continue working on them until the opportunity arises in the near future. Moreover, I can make use of my personal travel photography trips to produce a new set of travel photography portfolios for future travel photography/writing collaborations and projects. 

Creative/Content Creation  

Beside my TGH Photography business, I have been building up my Content Creation / Digital Marketing / Social Media Marketing business over the years. This segment had a slower growth over the years due to ever-changing social media industry, media consumption patterns and trends. 

In 2024, it did “Ignite” for my content creation/social media marketing, through collaborations with other content creators, working on different content creation approaches, and potentially opening up more opportunities to collaborate with organisations, agencies and other content creators in 2025.

Heritage 

Looking back at the many different photographs I took in 2024, there were a few heritage related events that I covered. Overall, I reckon I could have more done more, and also getting my personal heritage projects completed. 

In 2025, I would probably be working on finishing up my personal heritage projects that I started years back, and if there are opportunities to work on suitable heritage related project/topics, I hope to come onboard. Another area that might have more coverage in 2025 could be more on cultural heritage.

Reflecting Year 2024 (Technology | Business | Personal) 

I have also wrote and published an article of my review and reflections of Year 2024 for my Technology, Business and Personal segments. If you are keen to find out more about them, please visit my TGH Technology & Business portal/blog. 

A final note to reflect and wrap up Year 2024

Walking through this rainbow light artwork portal by Very Small Exhibition – Very Momentary Exhibition 1.5, let’s bid goodbye to Year 2024, learn from the life lessons and experiences in 2024, take the good and put behind the bad. 

Let’s all be kind to one another and help one another as much as possible, let’s also not be judgemental. 

Time to welcome Year 2025, starting off on a new slate, a new journey ahead. Thank you very much for your friendship, readership, following and support over the years! 

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