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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

Sunday 25th December 2011

Christmas Day, and into the final week of my blog! I'm at my parents for a few days over Christmas, yesterday evening on my arrival I was treated to a BBQ, and today the indulgence continued with Dad-made cocktails. This one is an Amaretto Martini, and very nice it was too. The flash also helped me to create a fairly black background without the aid of a studio setup.

85mm, 1/60s, f/5.6, ISO 400

Sunday, 27 November 2011

Wednesday 23rd November 2011

This is the descender (device used to go down ropes) I use when I'm caving, just playing with lighting.

33mm, 8s, f/8, ISO 200

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

Monday, 16 May 2011

Monday 16th May 2011

Another flower from my garden, taken for a weekly competition.

70mm (approx), 1s, f/16, ISO 800

Thursday, 14 April 2011

Tuesday 12th April 2011

I had a bit of a nightmare with photos today. At lunchtime I tried (again) to take a macro shots of my own eye - my laptop crashed and I ran out of time. I tried again in the evening - a series of errors (dead batteries being the final one) meaning that I failed again. Then I left my camera recording a star trail while I went to Asda but there was too much light pollution to make a decent photo. So instead, here's a photo of my lounge lampshade! I'm actually quite drawn by the pattern, and can be found staring at it when the TV is boring.

22mm, 1/14s (auto from aperture priority), f/3.5, ISO 400

Wednesday, 13 April 2011

Sunday 11th April 2011

It's been a while since I had a double posting but I'm tied between two today. Which would you choose?

Fishes amidst reflections

250mm, 1/320s (auto from aperture priority), f/6.3, ISO 400

or

A horse munching grass

18mm, 1.6s (auto from aperture priority), f/3.5, ISO 800

Thursday, 31 March 2011

Monday 28th March 2011

First proper go at underground photography, with my dSLR - lighting up an old mine. I'm quite pleased with this, given it was something I haven't tried before and you can't see the result until the shutter closes and it pops up on the screen.

18mm, 15s, f/7.1, ISO 400

Sunday, 20 March 2011

Saturday 19th March 2011

Taken on my Kodak compact again although my DSLR will come down caves with me soon.

36mm, 1/8s, f/2.7, ISO 200. (auto)

Friday, 11 March 2011

Friday 11th March 2011

Old and new.

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

Tuesday, 1 March 2011

Sunday 27th February 2011

This is Mousetrap Zawn at Gogarth on Holyhead, Wales. Such amazing textures and colours of rock on such a grand scale, it's really eye-catching and I hope I've managed to show some of that here.

27mm, 1/80s, f/11, ISO 100