Day 45

Sometimes the world has a funny way of rewarding you! For some reason I was awake at 4:30 this morning and as the night turned to day Pam nudged me ans said look at that sky, Well thanks darling firstly for waking me up and secondly for the sky!!

I'm certainly getting into the groove at the moment despite the rubbish weather I seem to be coping well with the challenge. There's still a long way to go and I'm fairly sure there's going to be some tough times but I'm still looking forward to completing something!!

Day 44

This time the gods of nice sky was looking down upon me as I walked the hounds. I was actually going to try and get a good flat out running shot of the Wesley with motion blur and all that stuff, but it turns out that even if you have an idea of what you want to take, you can change your mind!

See this is something else this challenge is doing to me, it's making me more flexible in my decision making. Yup that's another plus and it's only day 44!!

I've sorted out how to remember what day I need to put on this blog now, it was quite simple really set up the Lightroom export as a custom name and number to increment automatically now why did that take me 44 days to work out?

Day 43

ah the rain it keeps a falling, Not stuck for a photo today wanted to capture the feeling of the weather and waited until the heavens opened. Which they did very nicely too and at the same time the sun made an appearance which gave a nice back light to the scene.

I converted to Black and White to add to the feel of the photo.

Day 42

At least the rain has stopped for the moment allowing for a blue sky photo!! This is Pakenham Windmill on the road to Bury St Edmunds, I grabbed this on the way back from Manchester today. I'm thinking I could do this from various angles over the course of the year as I go past this many many times!

Day 41

Busy old day at work leading to a distinct lack of enthusiasm for photography! Well I was about to make myself a nice relaxing cup of tea when I thought I might as well try to take a good photo of something dull. Well here it is I think it's about as good as one could do with a bowl of beverages and a piece of white paper!

Hopefully tomorrow will bring something more thoughtful although the good thin about this is the fact that I could find a way of making this photo look ok. By being careful with the placing of the individual items to find a balance in the photo it becomes almost a pleasing arrangement. See all this work is paying off!

 

 

 

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Day 40

After a busy day yesterday I have a long drive in front of me today so it's a quick set up of a simple subject. The difficult thing is to light it nicely and reduce the reflections so this was put in front of a window which gave the shadow but was diffused enough not to cause too many problems with reflections.
Converted to B&W in Photoshop and a tweak of curves with a hint of sharpening.

Day 39

Norwich a Fine City,

Thanks to Ben for the loan of the balcony once again. This time the tripod was available which made the process a lot better. Used a longer focal length as I wanted more of the feel of the city rather than loads of detail.

So hows the project going? Well I'm finding it challenging and enjoyable at the same time, I'm doing a fair bit of reading and viewing others work getting ideas and gathering information all the time. This sort of project has been called the Iron Man of Photography and I'm beginning to see why. The longer the project goes on the more you start to look at the disciplines of photography.

Oh and for the animal lovers here's the photo Ben took of Harvey.