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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

Tuesday 27th December 2011

This is my cousin Rob, and his youngest daughter Maisie. I love this photo, it's something a bit different and I think it conveys a nice sense of motion, an instance where the built in flash works really well.

I'm going on holiday to Austria tomorrow, I'll be taking my final few photos while I'm away, and I shall upload them once I'm back.

18mm, 1/15s, f/5.6, ISO 400

Saturday, 24 December 2011

Friday 23rd December 2011

A little chuckle.

39mm, 1/60s, f/5, ISO 400

Thursday, 22 December 2011

Monday 19th December 2011

A collection of Christmas Pixies.

25mm, 1/200s, f/4, ISO 800

Thursday, 20 October 2011

Friday 14th October 2011

Zoot suits and beer festivals were the order of the day today.

92mm, 1/40s, f/5.6, ISO 400

Wednesday, 12 October 2011

Saturday 8th October 2011

Wheeee, rockets!

18mm, 5s, f/8, ISO 400

Thursday, 25 August 2011

Saturday 20th August 2011

A little shadow play, taking advantage of the wide angle lens and SLR that I've kindly been lent.

20mm, 1/100s, f/9, ISO 320

Tuesday, 16 August 2011

Thursday 11th August 2011

I took photos of the weevils that I found in the risotto rice this evening, but with my setup without natural light macro photos don't come out too well, and none of them were any good. I'd been for a stroll round a park earlier on in the day though and I actually quite like this snap, it's a new play area that's still being built, and I like the way the trees frame my view of it.

109mm, 1/200s (auto from aperture priority), f/5.6, ISO 400