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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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Thursday, 17 November 2011

Wednesday 16th November 2011

This is Saint Werburgh's Parish Church on High Lane, Burslem. It was built in 1953 to replace a smaller church in Hamil Road as the congregation was growing larger. I've been meaning to try this photo for a while. I noticed the statue of Jesus but it's fairly hidden away to the side and under a tree. I had an idea that if I took a photo of the church at night and illuminated the statue more than the natural light illuminated the church, it would create a nicely balanced scene. I think it mostly worked.

18mm, 25s, f/11, ISO 200

Friday, 7 October 2011

Tuesday 4th October 2011

I've got an SLR again! Well, a body, still waiting for a lens. In the meantime the old one is still functional even if the elements are damaged by water scum reducing the image quality. It meant I could get the LEDs out again though.

18mm, 4s, f/7.1, ISO 200

Monday, 5 September 2011

Tuesday 30th August 2011

One of those 'let's start taking photos and see what comes to mind' type of evenings.

19mm, 1/8s, f/7.1, ISO 320

Tuesday, 2 August 2011

Monday 1st August 2011

Light spirograph.

29mm, 8s, f/4.5, ISO 400

Friday, 29 July 2011

Thursday 28th July 2011

Another play with light-painting. SOOC (Straight Out Of Camera).

141mm, 1s, f/5.6, ISO 400

Thursday, 28 July 2011

Wednesday 27th July 2011

Second orb-painting session and my little purchase allowed me to create a multi-orb. SOOC (Straight Out Of Camera).

18mm, 30s, f/4.5, ISO 400

Saturday, 23 July 2011

Thursday 21st July 2011

I took more grasshopper photos today but although I'm still homing in on that ideal shot, I don't want to keep posting them as my photo-a-day. With a side-line interest in light-painting, I decided it was about time I created an orb, as it seems like the thing to do. I'm not a big fan of them, too circular, but you've got to try everything once! And actually mine's not particularly circular. I thought it would be easy but I don't actually know how people create them, I just did it the way I assumed it's done!

18mm, 30s, f/6.3, ISO 800

Friday, 8 July 2011

Wednesday 6th July 2011

Another play with light-painting. After I took this I realised I hadn't managed to point the torch completely away from the camera (the idea was to strangely illuminate the subjects, not to make light trails), so I took another. However I got the zoom wrong (I'd forgotten a tripod so had the camera resting on the ground and the zoom changed when I picked it up and replaced it). Then I tried a third, but I used too much light and there wasn't any subtelty or pattern to it. Then my friends had to leave! So I'm going with this one.

18mm, 1/30s, f/5.66.3, ISO 200

Friday, 10 June 2011

Tuesday 7th June 2011

A spot of light-painting at home.

46mm, 15s, f/8, ISO 100

Tuesday, 31 May 2011

Thursday 26th May 2011

A little light painting with a little help from my Dad!

32mm, 30s, f/5, ISO 200

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