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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 15 September 2011

Sunday 11th September 2011

For the third (I think) time this year, I forgot to take a photo today, at least one that's worth of consideration for photo-a-day, or at least taken with it in mind. Thankfully I'm a photo-addict and take photos of everything, so usually have something I've snapped. I'd rather put that in that take something outside of the required time. So here we have - a picture of a broken banjo pick, that I bought off ebay and broke as soon as I tried to fit it to my finger! Taken on my iPhone. So this definitely counts as a below par photo. Thankfully there have been perhaps a dozen of these since I started this project on the 1st of January, so I guess I'm not doing too bad.


3.9mm, 1/20s, f/5.8, ISO 80. (auto)
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