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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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Wednesday 28 September 2011

Thursday 22nd September 2011

Being restricted technically is tough (I wouldn't have started this project with a compact instead of an SLR), but it just means I have to put more effort into getting good shots. I think this thought was tumbling around in my subconscious because as I drove home from work the sun was shining and it felt like the last dregs of summer, and instead of going home I went to the Roaches instead. It was actually quite overcast there and I didn't quite get the photos I'd hoped, but it was quite beautiful and I enjoyed the unexpected peace and quiet (unusually it wasn't heaving with rock climbers). I walked along the crag then took a path I knew was there but had never been down. This gave me a lovely view across the blooming heather to Hen Cloud, with its similarly heathery top.


12.7mm, 1/10s, f/5. (auto)
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