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This year I will be mostly... taking a photo every day, and posting it up here for you all to see and comment on if you feel inclined (please do). It's not an original idea, I stole it off a friend and many other people are doing the same as I speak, but I thought it seemed like a great idea to get used to my new toy, my Canon Eos 500D with Tamron 18-250mm Macro lens - my first digital SLR.

A lot of sites online talk about 'project 365' where people are encouraged to take a photo every day, but while their take on it is to create a personal history of the photographer, I wanted to make it a bit more abstract, more about the world around me. So this isn't meant to be a photo diary of my life, I am striving for each photo to be 'good' because of its artistic and technical merit, not because it's personal to me. Having said that personal subject matter will inevitably creep in as inspiration, but that's allowed, the book I'm reading claim that "every picture we take is merely a self-portrait of our inner psyche"!

I had a think of a couple of ideas for themes and settled on 'moods'. Then I was hit by indecision as to what to do if I take a photo I like and want to upload as my daily snap, but it doesn't fit the theme. So I have decided that the theme is just for inspiration rather than as a criteria, the photos can be of anything. That way I get the most flexibility of what to upload, and still have a muse.

While I'll be taking photos every day, I'll only upload them every few days, so keep checking back. I'm not anticipating the photos to be groundbreaking (at least not to start with!), the whole point is to improve so I won't be great initially. But I'll still try my best which will hopefully keep it interesting. Please feel free to add whatever comments you like (hopefully constructive!) as that will help me as much as the process of actually taking a photo a day, I will endeavour to reply to them all.

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Thursday, 17 February 2011

Wednesday 16th February 2011

I pass this place every day on the way between home and work and it fascinates me. I've twice read the history and although mostly factual I find it compelling, it was the first colliery in the UK to mine one million saleable tons of coal in a year so not dimunitive in scale. As it stands now it is run down but impressive, it was made an Ancient Monument as it's one of the best examples of a coalmining complex still standing in the UK. They've just re-opened the land around it which they've spent a little while landscaping so all manner of new vantage points are available.

In photographic terms I took a photo I liked the composition of but it was such an overcast day the colours were very dull and distracting, and it seemed such a shame to put up photo that had so much more potential. So I've gone for a different choice for now and I'll be back to re-take the other.


42mm, 1/50s, f/8, ISO 100
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  1. brenda.clough19 February 2011 at 10:13

    I like the chimney and two shaft being in a diagonal line - leads the eye through and the grey, stormy sky adds to the industrial feel

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