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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

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

Wednesday, 24 August 2011

Wednesday 17th August 2011

Since it looks like I won't be able to sort out my broken camera for a while (I really miss it!), I really have to rise to the challenge of the alternative options and use them in ways they provide good results. My old Ixus can be coaxed into life for a little while as long as it has a newly charged batter in it, so that is preferable to the poorer picture quality of the Kodak. So what does the Ixus do well? Blue skies, colourful objects, and getting in close. Thinking of the latter two, I went to a patch of beautiful flowers I've photographed previously, and took a variety of snaps. A hoverfly was kind enough to enhance this shot, so I chose it as my top shot, although pleasingly I had a few contenders.

4.6mm, 1/500s, f/2.8. (auto)

Tuesday, 9 August 2011

Monday 8th August 2011

Bubble-icious.

0.4s, f/11 (approx), ISO 400

Tuesday, 2 August 2011

Tuesday 2nd August 2011

Waterlilies at the dragonfly pond.

168mm, 1/500s (auto from aperture priority, f/5.6, ISO 800

Wednesday, 6 July 2011

Monday 4th July 2011

I decided it was time to diversify from macro grasshopper shots, although I'm still working on those for a particular photo I'm after. Today, instead, I went to the dragonfly pond at Knypersley reservoir and found a collection of Azure Blues. This one posed for me for a while letting me get right in close, all the others flew off as soon as I got within range for a photo.

1/50s, f/11 (approx), ISO 800

Monday, 16 May 2011

Saturday 14th May 2011

Lone poppy dancing in the wind.

39mm, 0.5s, f/22, ISO 200

Saturday, 14 May 2011

Friday 13th May 2011

I quite like the abstract nature of this one, and one flower stamen doesn't always look like another! This is inside the snapdragon mouth of an antirrhinum growing on the street-facing wall of an abandoned garden.

18mm, 1/25s, f/10, ISO 800

Tuesday, 10 May 2011

Thursday 5th May 2011

Dandelion seeds. I also got a photo of a green lacewing which has beautiful shimmery translucent wings (less so in the photo), but I prefer this one.

1/80s, f/10 (approx), ISO 800