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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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Monday, 19 December 2011

Thursday 15th December 2011

1980s wallpaper and 1890s flooring, in the derelict Oakhurst House, Ambergate.

18mm, 1/40s, f/4.5, ISO 400

Tuesday, 15 November 2011

Friday 11th November 2011

How to fix a broken video player, Obviously.

119mm, 1s, f/8, ISO 400

Friday, 4 November 2011

Monday 31st October 2011

I quite liked this abused street sign in the glow of the street lamps.

30mm, 30s, f/8, ISO 400

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)

Monday, 12 September 2011

Friday 9th September 2011

A decaying, yet colourful building (opposite a brand new community fire station).

18mm, 1/40s, f/8, ISO 400

Thursday, 25 August 2011

Tuesday 23rd August 2011

I pass this row of houses almost every day. First the chippy closed down and all the windows were boarded up. Then they knocked down the house on the left and left the ground to grow wild and it's now covered in red poppies and looks rather wild and beautiful. Then they knocked down the house on the right, and one in the middle. Then after a while, oddly, they put up scaffolding and repaired the four end walls. And it's been left like that since, apart from the gradual decay caused by louts or who knows who - broken windows, missing board, holes... all making it make me want to take a photo. While I was doing so the police drove past and stopped as they were curious what I was up to! I should have delayed them a little longer, they would have caught the boy racer who went screaming down the street just after them.

20mm, 3s, f/7.1, ISO 400

Monday, 27 June 2011

Friday 17th June 2011

Penrith Castle.

109mm, 1/80s, f/5.6, ISO 400

Wednesday, 8 June 2011

Sunday 5th June 2011

Just a little urban shot today, a couple of ramshackle buildings tinkered with in post-processing to bring out the muted tones.

27mm, 1/60s, f/7.1, ISO 400

Friday, 11 March 2011

Friday 11th March 2011

Old and new.

84mm, 1/25s, f/11, ISO 100

Monday, 10 January 2011

Friday 7th January 2011

Sadly the recent intense cold and prolonged snow cover has destroyed my Cordyline, which was previously tall, elegant and purple. Somehow though it looks beautiful now in its gold and green despite being snapped down to the ground.

50mm, 1/50s (auto from aperture priority), f/10.0, ISO 1000 (auto)