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Day 261: London Pride

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Daily Shoot assignment: "Make a photograph dominated by the color red today."

This is a flower in our garden called "London Pride". I think it’s quite attractive 🙂 It’s come out a bit more pink than red, but still… it’s close!

Day 260: Seed Head

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Daily Shoot assignment: "Make a photograph using soft light today"

Well I don’t think it’s easy to tell from this photo but the light out today was soft because of the cloud. No harsh sunlight here!

And I know I’ve done seed heads before. Well, I’m doing another one. So sue me :p

Day 259: Sun behind clouds

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Daily Shoot assignment: "Illustrate warmth in a photograph today"

Well, all our warmth comes from the sun! It was a warm day today here as well.

It was only a two day weekend this week – scandalous! Still, c’est la vie. It was a good weekend: on Friday night it was the first 21 of the new term. There were 22 young people there! – mostly year sixes who’d come up. It was pretty crazy, I think they all had a good time but they were hard work. Still, it’s a nice problem to have – hopefully they will settle down a bit next week.

On Saturday we spent the morning doing various household tasks, and then in the afternoon went round to Phil and George’s for Makaila’s first birthday party. It was a really nice afternoon, I felt quite guilty because we hadn’t seen them since last November (!) – but it was good to see them and some of their other family and friends. We bought Makaila a little piano / xylophone type thing, it seemed to be quite popular (particularly with Anne-Marie 😉

Afterwards we came back home and watched Doctor Who. I didn’t think the episode was as good as the two previous ones, but it was good fun and we enjoyed watching it! After that we watched “Another Year”, a Mike Leigh film. I really enjoyed it – it was just a realistic ‘slice of life’ kind of film centred around a happily married couple and the interactions with their friends and family. I quite liked it in the end, it was very much about ‘real people’ and you could identify with the characters… even if I felt the happily married couple were a little bit *too* happily married (I don’t think they were really, they just didn’t really have any problems for the duration of the film while everyone else did.)

Anyway. On Sunday we went to church in the morning, came back for lunch, then went out again for Sunday@6… not much to report really!

So there you have it. It was a pretty quiet, relaxing weekend. And that’s about it from me this week 🙂

Day 258: Euphorbia

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Daily Shoot assignment: "Make a photograph with no obvious horizon."

Well, although you can see the ground in this picture you can’t see the horizon! I do like the background though – the sun was shining just in the right direction 🙂

Strings

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Daily Shoot assignment: "Make a photograph that features vertical lines today."

Well these guitar strings are getting a bit old now but they are vertical!

Day 256: Sky

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Daily Shoot assignment: "Make a photograph of the sky today". This photograph was taken in the gathering dusk. There was so much going on in the sky, I think it looks beautiful!

Day 255: Shadowy Music

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Daily Shoot assignment: "Make a photo dominated by shadows today."

Well I think this photo is pretty firmly in the shadows! The right section of the picture came out much darker than I’d intended, but I quite like it actually.

Day 254: Bark

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Daily Shoot assignment: "Illustrate randomness in a photograph today."

One of the things that I like about nature is the fact that it’s unpredictable. The bark on this tree is unique to this tree – even though it may look similar to other trees 🙂

It’s what makes life interesting.

Well, what a weekend it was! Four glorious days off… fantastic 🙂 Friday was, of course, the day of the Royal Wedding. I didn’t know whether to watch it or not, in the end I decided to and enjoyed it. My favourite bits of the service were the Bible reading (Romans 12 – very unusual for a wedding but great choice) and the hymns (‘Love Divine’ being one of my favourites). I wasn’t sure about the Bishop of London’s sermon – it wasn’t that I didn’t agree with it, it was just that (1) I think he could have brought in the passage that they chose a bit more; (2) he could have made it a bit more… entertaining! Like Rowan Atkinson’s character in “Keeping Mum”, he could have learned the value of inserting a joke or two.

Anyway. We watched the wedding, and then … can’t remember what we did actually. It was THAT LONG ago! 😉 *ahem* It involved wandering up to Hilly Fields anyway, I know this from my Project 365.

On Saturday we went out to MSS to pick up a new mower as the old one broke down a couple of weeks ago. We also did a few household chores, you know, the usual. In the evening Anne-Marie and Sarah came round to watch Doctor Who. It was really nice to all be together again for DW, it was a great episode this week! I think we all really enjoyed it. Some of the one-liners were fantastic! So many unanswered questions though, I hope they’re going to be answered satisfactorily in the rest of the series…

On Sunday we went to church in the morning, then Phil was giving blood at the Wilson Marriage centre so I popped in to see Anne-Marie and Sarah for a bit. Phil joined us after a while, and we chatted there for an hour or so before heading back home. Then in the evening Sarah came round and we all headed out to church for an evening with someone who’s just returned from Afghanistan (he’s in the army) – he was talking about what it’s like there, and what it’s like to be a Christian there. Very interesting.

Then, on the Monday we spent most of the day in and around the garden, tidying up and so on. It was a good day actually, it needed to be done but it was worth it! In the afternoon we headed over to Wivenhoe, went for a walk along the river and then had fish & chips by the quayside (outside the Rose & Crown). It was a beautiful day although there weren’t that many people around – I think probably because it was a bit windy.

Afterwards we came back home and watched ‘Anatomy of a Murder’, a James Stewart film which is a classic. I’d seen it once before but forgotten most of the details. It’s definitely worth watching anyway!

Right, think that’s pretty much all the bank holiday stuff up to date. Only one more bank holiday in May to go now, doh 🙁 Still, as of tomorrow I will only have four more months before starting at college. And I’ve handed my notice in at work! But that’s enough of that for now anyway.