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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, 29 June 2011

Wednesday 22nd June 2011

The 'Fairy Pools', a very picturesque series of cascades where the water runs down from the Cuillin Ridge to Glen Brittle.

18mm, 0.6s, f/16, ISO 100

Wednesday, 8 June 2011

Saturday 4th June 2011

This is Hardraw Force, claimed to be the tallest single drop waterfall in the country (discounting underground falls). It's also the location used for Kevin Costner's bath in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. I had a quick browse online before I went to see if there were any good photos of it I could use as inspiration, but I didn't really find any. I'm not 100% happy with this one but it's good enough.

18mm, 0.8s, f/13, ISO 200

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

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

Thursday, 24 March 2011

Wednesday 23rd March 2011

On a little ride around on my motorbike today I stumbled across a museum that puts on free lunchtime concerts, and an adjacent park with aviary. I don't know what type of bird this is, some kind of finch, but it was lovely and soft and delicate, and still characterful with its bright red beak and spotted underbelly.

155mm, 1/800s (auto from aperture priority), f/5.6, ISO 800

Friday, 4 March 2011

Wednesday 2nd March 2011

We're getting some lovely sunsets lately with spring dawning.

18mm, 2.5s, f/16, ISO 100

Thursday, 10 February 2011

Tuesday 8th February 2011

I followed a tip off from some nice people I met yesterday and headed back to Knypersley reservoir to a waterfall in search of Kingfishers and yellow wagtails. I saw more birds on the walk in (actually a fast run) than at the waterfall itself, but I managed to get a nice photo of this little fairy glen. This is an HDR image which means it is a composite of (in this case) three different shots with different exposures, so that it exhibits a larger range of luminance between the lightest and darkest areas, more akin to what our eyes see.

18mm, 1s, f/22.0, ISO 100

Thursday, 20 January 2011

Thursday 20th January 2011

I took a drive to my favourite pub at lunchtime hoping to capture a misty canal, but I obviously need more practise before I can record the atmosphere. I did find a little weir though, of which I got a passable photo, although really need a tripod for things like this. I took a couple of photos on a slower shutter speed to create a cotton-like effect with the water. Following it is a faster capture for comparison, which gives a somewhat different effect that I also like.

27mm, 0.5, f/22 (auto from shutter priority), ISO 100 (auto)

50mm, 1/320, f/5.02 (auto from shutter priority), ISO 320 (auto)