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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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Friday, 16 December 2011

Sunday 11th December 2011

Stained glass in Penkhull.

119mm, 1/4s, f/5.6, ISO 400

Wednesday, 28 September 2011

Tuesday 27th September 2011

Day two of the Indian Summer, and although there isn't a great deal of imagination in this photo I quite often see light hitting houses and windows and miss the capture, and I actually really like this.

12.7mm, 1/200s, f/5. (auto)

Friday 23rd September 2011

Purple lights at the Cumbrian Foodhall. Shame they weren't open - I was hungry! A slightly poor quality photo, but I didn't manage to get out in the daylight today and pictures from this camera go a little grainy if shot in low light, even if you force the ISO low.

17.3mm, 1/4s, f/5.8. (auto)

Wednesday, 21 September 2011

Monday 19th September 2011

Reading town hall. I MUST have walked past this when I lived locally but now I walk around with a photographer's eyes, I notice many things that I never did before. It was quite striking, and although I got a couple of shots of the whole building, I prefer this one of the windows.

19mm, 1/200s, f/11, ISO 800

Friday, 28 January 2011

Tuesday 25th January 2011

I took my camera to a Burns Night supper I was attending that evening, which was held in an 18th century coaching inn. The pub had various interesting features, including some fascinatingly ornate radiators, and these stained glass windows.

18mm, 1/10s (auto from aperture priority), f/11, ISO 1600 (auto)

Tuesday, 4 January 2011

Tuesday 4th January 2011

Day 4. The mood - grey and drizzly. The image - raindrops on my car window, with me hiding behind them and avoiding the blurry world behind the glass... work :-)

65mm, 1/80s (auto from aperture priority), f/5.0, ISO 800 (auto)