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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, 24 August 2011

Thursday 18th August 2011

Another thing I can do with the Ixus is continue with a theme I started early on in the year. Two themes in fact - highlight some of the cool buildings in Stoke, and do a series of photos of Stoke sub-stations, since most of those are in cool buildings with cool brickwork. I've taken photos of this one before but wasn't happy with them. This one is better, but having reviewed what I took I also know what I'd do if I returned. Which I may, I just love the intricate patterns and the variety of tiles and bricks!

4.6mm, 1/125s, f/2.8. (auto)

Thursday, 16 June 2011

Monday 13th June 2011

A viaduct I spotted a couple of years ago on the way to the climbing wall - at the time it was catching the glow from the sunset on each of the arches. Despite arriving in the 'golden hour', this isn't the photo I went for (it's taken from the side that the sun was hitting for a start, the opposite side to the one seen from the road), but I forgot my tripod so I was restricted to where I could balance the camera!

141mm, 1/6s, f/16, ISO 100

Monday, 16 May 2011

Sunday 15th May 2011

I always forget that I'll see Red Kites when I head down South, and I'm always awed by them. Such huge beast grazing power cables and rooftops. On my back home I almost made myself late for an engagement as I kept stopping every time I passed another batch of them (or possibly the same lot, scarpering whenever I stopped to watch). They eventually seemed to congregate over Watlington and a lady gave me a tip of a particular hill to go up and watch them so I may do next time I'm in the area.

250mm, 1/250s (auto from aperture priority), f/9, ISO 800

Monday, 14 March 2011

Sunday 13th March 2011

I used to do a lot of rock climbing, but a couple of years ago my interest waned and I no longer enjoyed it. Now my trips out are very occasional but due to the novelty value and the company of good friends I no longer see as often, I do really enjoy them again. Especially when the sun shines like this! I like this photo as it captured everything that was good about the day and hopefully will give the same impression to other people looking it at that don't have a personal attachment to it.

180mm, 1/250s, f/8, ISO 200

Wednesday, 23 February 2011

Tuesday 22nd February 2011

Quick and simple one tonight. This is the hammer showing the nails who's boss - they broke the last one. The image is a little 'noisy' (digitally speckled), that came about when I adjusted the colours and white balance to get rid of colour casts from the light and make the walls the right colours... but I kind of like it (certainly prefer it to the version that came off the camera), plus I don't want to spend hours editing photos this evening, so it's staying like that!

100mm, 0.3s, f/5.6, ISO 400

Tuesday, 22 February 2011

Sunday 20th February 2011

This little pied wagtail was too busy strutting about looking for scraps of food to be worrying about a weird girl stalking him with camera in hand. I whacked the ISO up as I was handholding the camera.

250mm, 1/250s, f/6.3, ISO 1600

Monday, 7 February 2011

Thursday 3rd February 2011

I was driving to a gig this evening and went past Belper Mill, with various lights shining out at all levels, and a nicely illuminated low waterfall. I was running late but resolved to stop by on the way back - which I did, but unfortunately all the lights in the factory were extuinguished to I had to make do with just the waterfall and I'm not hugely enamoured with the result... but I'll be back.

50mm, 8s, f/5.6, ISO 400