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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.

For my trip reports blog see http://fidgetsadventures.blogspot.com

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Friday, 16 December 2011

Friday 9th December 2011

Another aquatic shot, the waving fronds of a coral.

2s, f/10 (approx), ISO 800

Thursday 8th December 2011

Desperation tonight, I've been super busy at work and unfortunately haven't had time to spend on photography. So here's a second photo of the light in my lounge (first photo here)

20mm, 1.6s, f/22, ISO 100

Thursday, 3 November 2011

Sunday 30th October 2011

A slightly more atmospheric photo of the Nissen huts at Cultybraggan camp, see yesterday.

18mm, 1/200s, f/8, ISO 400

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, 20 October 2011

Thursday 13th October 2011

11 strings.

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

Friday, 26 August 2011

Thursday 25th August 2011

On my way home from work today I went for a stroll down the canal from Westport Lake towards the Middleport Pottery. I've been meaning to take a photo of this for a while, and thought it might be easier with the wide angle lens - which it was. It's still in use now, although from this side it looks rather ramshackle. The pottery is currently owned by Denby but for the most significant stretch of its existence it was the Burgess & Leigh pottery. You can read more about its history here.

12mm, 1/160s, f/4.5, ISO 320

Wednesday 24th August 2011

Cutting it fine tonight, this was taken at ten minutes to midnight,after our film finished. The Odeon in Stoke.

17mm, 3s, f/8, ISO 320

Wednesday, 1 June 2011

Tuesday 31st May 2011

I arrived at my blood doning appointment a little early so took a short stroll to the adjacent canal. I was drawn by the graffiti spanning each wall of the bridge that carries the A53 flyover, never seen to the car drivers. Despite the artwork being quite colourful, I thought it was more striking in black and white.

25mm, 0.8s (auto from aperture priority), f/11, ISO 400

Thursday, 19 May 2011

Wednesday 18th May 2011

Sticking with the experiment on simplicity. Let me know what you think.

55mm, 6s, f/6.3, ISO 400

Saturday, 14 May 2011

Wednesday 11th May 2011

I'll freely admit this was a bit of a disaster. I've been looking at some other people's photos and thinking how I'd like to work on simplicity. However the time to do this is possibly not by taking any old photo when heading out. This is neither suggestive, artistic, nor does it have interesting light or subject, but it's still a lesson to me!

250mm, 1/200s (auto from aperture priority), f/6.3, ISO 800

Friday, 28 January 2011

Wednesday 26th January 2011

At lunchtime today I headed to a park that I know has various features such as a lake and a bandstand, along with a whole load of different angles and curves and mounds, as I wanted to practise my landscape photography since my skills there are somewhat lacking. I learnt a few things from my efforts, but didn't come up with anything presentable from this trip. So fortunately I had a back-up plan - photographing a church that I drive past fairly regularly that's always very nicely lit. This wasn't the photo I envisaged, but it appealed once I started exploring possibilities, and I took the shot on fully manual which I pleased about.

18mm, 30s, f/22, ISO 400

Tuesday, 4 January 2011

Monday 3rd January 2011

I took this photo as I was thinking I hadn't snapped anything suitable for the 2nd Jan, then I realised it was after midnight and I could use my Stanage shot anyway, but decided to put this forwards for the 3rd. The aim was just to create a bit of intrigue, to create a mood with the plain colour and the depth of field, but also to lead people into wondering what it was of... in case you're wondering it was just my sofa, nothing exciting. Bit of vignetting visibile in the corners as the lens was at full zoom (I haven't corrected it because... I haven't yet learnt how!)

141mm, 0.6s (auto from aperture priority), f/5.6, ISO 1600 (auto)