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Daily Shoot assignment: "Make a photograph of a tool today"
Well this is a tool, or in fact, several tools combined into one. It’s not a genuine swiss army knife (it’s some cheapo knock-off) and I bought it years ago so it’s pretty worn out by now.
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Daily Shoot assignment: "Make a photograph featuring a fence or a wall today".
Here are some little flowers in front of a fence.. I thought it worked better in black and white!
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Daily Shoot assignment: "Make a high contrast photograph today"
The general idea with this photo is the contrast between the brightness of the sky / clouds and the darkness of the field! Don’t know whether this is a traditional high contrast photo but I think it came out OK. I’ve edited it a little for colouring and contrast.
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Daily Shoot assignment: "Illustrate cold in a photograph today" Well, apologies for doing another ‘glass of water’ shot so soon after doing my last one, but this is a glass of water. With ice in it 🙂
Sadly it hasn’t been very warm recently but there were some ice cubes in the freezer…
So another quick weekend update. 21 on Friday night: about 25 kids. That’s a record for the time I’ve been there. I think they were slightly more settled than last week, but still very noisy! Still – we have Friday off this week because of the JOY event happening on Saturday night (it’s a sort of inter-church youth event). Hopefully the following week they will be a bit less excited still!
Anyway. Saturday was spent doing a few chores and then running down to London to look at a house in East Barnet (we didn’t literally run, of course – we drove). But I will blog about the house sometime soon when things are a bit more definite. After that we came back home and watched Doctor Who with Anne-Marie and Sarah. It was a great episode this week, penned by Neil Gaiman.
Then we watched Eurovision, which was good fun. I have a sort of love-hate relationship with Eurovision: it’s trash (Eurotrash?), but somehow seeing things like unicycling gnomes with great big pointy hats just makes it all worthwhile. Anyway, ‘Blue’ managed to score 12 points from one nation so they can’t have been all that bad, I’d still like for Britain to enter a proper band one year though. Or, failing that, Scouting for Girls (hey, it’s what a lot of people actually listen to in this country. Unlike Blue.)
All that said, I did feel like the quality of the songs was higher this year than it has been in previous years so perhaps it is on the up, very gradually.
So. Sunday: went to church in the morning. Went to church in the evening. Did some ironing. That’s pretty much a summary of our day!
Hopefully I’ll have some more exciting news to update with soon about college stuff…
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Daily Shoot assignment: "Make a photograph that features radiating lines today". It didn’t actually strike me until looking back at this photo that it fulfils the assignment: the radiating lines come from the centre of the flower, the stamens are the lines.
I don’t know what those insects are or even what they’re doing, I assume they’re collecting pollen but for all I know they could just be having a game of tag.
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Daily Shoot assignment: "Make a photograph that features a silhouette today"
I think the headstock of this guitar is quite interesting although I’m not sure about the photo itself. Once again this was a ‘limited time’ photo!
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Daily Shoot assignment: "Make a photograph with a strong line that leads the eye through the image"
Apologies for doing a similar photo to one I did a few weeks ago, but I don’t have much time today!
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We have a Cistus in our garden which flowers between about May and September. Flowers appear each day and are a beautiful pinky colour. You can kind of see it in this picture but due to lack of rain recently the grass is brown and dry at the moment.
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Daily Shoot assignment: "Frame a view using a door or a window today"
Well this is the view from the window of a WWII pillbox. I think I’ve done something similar before but not inside this one. This is one of the few around which are still accessible, a lot of them seem to have been bricked up now.
