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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 December 2011

Monday 26th December 2011

Boxing Day, and my brother and his wife came round for another lovely meal, and this time it was time to cut the cake. All except the blue-hatted snowmen were made by hand by my mum.

270mm, 1/30s, f/6.3, ISO 400

Saturday, 24 December 2011

Saturday 24th December 2011

Chestnuts roasted on an open... BBQ! Yes, on Christmas Eve.

76mm, 5s, f/6.3, ISO 400

Thursday, 22 December 2011

Tuesday 20th December 2011

Home made festive fudge!

76mm, 1/60s, f/6, ISO 800

Friday, 16 December 2011

Wednesday 7th December 2011

I loved the play of light across this washboard.

85mm, 1/4s, f/5.6, ISO 400

Friday, 9 December 2011

Saturday 3rd December 2011

Not an enemy, the other one...

270mm, 1.6s, f/11, ISO 200

Thursday, 8 December 2011

Friday 2nd December 2011

I haven't taken a self portrait for a while.

142mm, 1/80s, f/5.6, ISO 400

Tuesday, 29 November 2011

Sunday 27th November 2011

Water splashes in a fountain.

130mm, 1/400s, f/5.6, ISO 400

Thursday, 24 November 2011

Tuesday 22nd November 2011

I love this photo. What's more it was one of those evenings where I haven't planned a photo and I'm clutching straws about what to take. Snapping away at some ferns lately followed by a comment from a friend obviously inspired me for this shot, and it just goes to show that the 365 project is still inspiring me to some up with unexpected goods. This is a prayer plant that I've had many years but have never got to produce more than a handful of leaves.

270mm, 1.4s, f/8, ISO 200

Sunday, 20 November 2011

Thursday 17th November 2011

Home grown banana peppers. They're now turning a lovely shade of orange.

200mm, 1/60s, f/6.3, ISO 400

Thursday, 10 November 2011

Friday 4th November 2011

Can you guess what it is?

270mm, 1/5s, f/6.3, ISO 800

Friday, 4 November 2011

Tuesday 1st November 2011

Cute as a button!

270mm, 1/15s, f/6.3, ISO 200

Thursday, 3 November 2011

Thursday 27th October 2011

Another cider related photo, this is the press used to extract the yummy juice from the apple pulp, ready for fermenting.

70mm, 8s, f/5.6, ISO 200

Thursday, 27 October 2011

Wednesday 26th October 2011

Water in motion.

18mm, 1/200s, f/3.5, ISO 400

Tuesday, 25 October 2011

Monday 24th October 2011

Buttons!

270mm, 1/15s, f/6.3, ISO 400

Sunday 23rd October 2011

The resident frog in the cave hut cellar.

270mm, 1/60s, f/6.3, ISO 400

Thursday, 20 October 2011

Thursday 13th October 2011

11 strings.

39mm, 2s, f/8, ISO 400

Wednesday, 12 October 2011

Friday 7th October 2011

Taken a little after midnight, oops, but I was driving down the motorway after work. This toy snake is from Sandown zoo on the Isle of Wight.

92mm, 1/30s, f/5, ISO 400

Friday, 7 October 2011

Monday 3rd October 2011

Book spines.

4.6mm, 1/8s, f/2.8. (auto)

Sunday, 2 October 2011

Saturday 1st October 2011

Into the last quarter of the year and I have high hopes for having a new SLR before the end of next week, in the mean-time bear with me! This shot was an accident as I had the white balance wrong. I corrected it, and came out with a very ordinary shot which I would have just abandoned, but I quite like this one, it reminds me of a horror film - moonlight, something eerily odd, a focus on a trivial item.

4.6mm, 1/60s, f/7.1. (auto)

Thursday 29th September 2011

An onion flower from the vegetable patch.

4.6mm, 1/640s, f/7.1. (auto)