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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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Tuesday, 5 April 2011

Saturday 2nd April 2011

Today we endured various rain showers and snowy slopes, as well as more wet feet and strong winds (although not strong enough to blow us over today). We ticked off two Munros and on the descent from the second we were gifted with the sight of this beautiful rainbow, which made it all worthwhile!


18mm, 1/320s (auto from aperture priority), f/9, ISO 400
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6 comments:

  1. Dan Lane5 April 2011 at 08:28

    Stunning photo, really like it. The crop ratio works well too! full marks for this photo.

    I'd love a 6x17cm film camera, but they're about 2000 quid so i might be waiting a while... :(

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  2. Sarah Clough5 April 2011 at 08:33

    Thanks. It's a stitch of two photos (my 18mm lens couldn't quite take it all in one), hence the aspect ratio.

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  3. George5 April 2011 at 15:33

    Gorgeous.......

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  4. Daniel Money6 April 2011 at 22:35

    Very, very nice.

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  5. drupka7 April 2011 at 00:01

    That's exceptionally well-handled and balanced :-D

    Dan - a Fuji GS617 with 90mm f8 lens can be bought for £1200 if you know where to look!

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  6. Sarah Clough11 April 2011 at 16:09

    Thanks guys.

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