Gary,
I've been thinking about this for days but can't quite work out what's bothering me so much.

Why does a project have to be full time?
Is Junk For Code not a project in itself?

I beg to disagree when you say "I am not an artist with a camera. Just a snapper like many amateurs"

After years of training from a fleet of photographers and editors, I believe I can spot a good piccy. I can't take one though. I don't have a photographer's eye. Or an artist's eye. I do have a critic's eye.

My snaps are amateurish regardless of the equipment I've been allowed to use and abuse over the years. Yours are not. Cam's neither.

I've wondered what sort of amateurish snaps you would take of the Gold Coast given the time and opportunity? The eye of a photographer, sociologist and anthropologist would likely produce some vastly different material from the truly amateurish snaps taken from a helicopter for the council.

Lyn,
Re your comment

Why does a project have to be full time?
Is Junk For Code not a project in itself

True, junk for code is that --though what kind of project I am not sure; beyond it being different combinations of image and text.

I guess I was referring to my photography per se, over and beyond junk for code. It would be nice to explore one thing---the Yanakie Caravan Park over the summer holidays; Surfers Paradise/Gold Coast; or rural decay. But I don't have the time to do something like this.

Hence the street art stuff as a compromise.

Lyn,
the difference between a good and bad picture starts with composition (form) then the content. The visual is a language which we need to be taught to become skilled in--hence the art or design school. It's just as hard picking up the visual skills as it is picking up critical reading ones of philosophy.