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Daily Shoot assignment: "Make a photograph that features a circle today." Well there are four circles in this picture!
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Day 244: Audi
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Day 243: Street
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Daily Shoot assignment: "Make a photograph that emphasizes converging lines"Well I think converging lines are evident in this picture. This is a view of East Stockwell Street in Colchester. The house on the right is Peake’s House, which is an old (16th Century) house, sometimes open to the public – it’s worth visiting if you get the chance.
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The Colne
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Daily Shoot assignment: "Make a photograph that features the horizon"This is a view towards Rowhedge from the Essex University side of the Wivenhoe Trail, taken on a walk on a very hot April afternoon!
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Day 241: Sorbus Signalman blossom
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Daily Shoot assignment: "Make a low contrast photograph today"Well I think this is fairly low-contrast. Well, slightly under average at least. I like it anyway 🙂
Our Sorbus Signalman has been in our garden for a few years and each years seems to have made a little bit more progress in terms of how much it’s grown and so on. This year it seems to be doing really well.
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Glass of Water
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Daily Shoot assignment: well, as the site isn’t loading at the moment I can’t quite remember, something to do with featuring water.This is a glass of water, which is … well. I’ll let a quote from Bill Bailey explain:
"People sometimes ask me if the glass is half empty or half full. I say, ‘It depends on what’s in the glass. Is it dirt? Pebbles? Is it blood? Is the glass used in a sacrificial context?’ And they say, ‘It’s alright. I’ll ask somebody else.’"
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Day 239: Trees Reflection
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Day 238: Connection
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Daily Shoot assignment: "Illustrate connection in a photograph today"Well this is the jack connection for a Stratocaster guitar. This probably isn’t my greatest photo ever but it’s getting late and I needed to do something!
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Day 237: Waterfall
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The Daily Shoot assignment: "Illustrate motion in a photograph today". Well this is a small waterfall on the Chelmer which I have pictured before. This photo was taken at 1/4000 shutter speed, which seems incomprehensibly small a time to me, but I think it conveys a sense of the motion of the water anyway! -
New Word Alive, and wedding
It was a busy week last week! On Saturday we headed to Pwllheli, North Wales for the New Word Alive conference. We were going down a day early (the day before the rest of our group headed up) in order to buy food for the week. The journey itself went smoothly, we didn’t have any problems to speak of and got there in good time. On the way we stopped off at a place called Trawsfynydd, which is a small village not far away from where New Word Alive is held. It was the place my parents and I went for our last family holiday together (ten years ago now) – it was a pretty disastrous holiday to be honest! But it was quite funny to go back to the village and have a look round. I think we even managed to find the place where we stayed all those years ago. Strange to think what’s happened in those ten years – when we went there, it was the start of the summer holidays before I went to uni.
Anyway, trip down memory lane over! We had dinner at a pub we found on the sea front, and then had a good night’s sleep at the B&B we were staying in (Terfyn B&B, very nice by the way). Then we headed out to the local Asda to buy food. I won’t say much about this apart from the fact that it took three hours, which is far longer than anyone should ever have to spend in a supermarket!
After that we headed over to the Hafan Y Mor Haven site, registered, and started unloading the food into the three chalets we were staying in (we weren’t staying in all of them 😉 – 18 people split over three chalets). After a while AJ and the rest of the gang arrived, and we cooked dinner and headed out to the first meeting of the week.
I won’t go into too many details of what happened during the week, but I’ll provide a brief overview of some of the highlights for me:
- The main meetings were great. We had a variety of speakers preaching through Hebrews 11, and I found them all very good. I particularly enjoyed Rico Tice on the Thursday.
- Bob Kauflin leading worship at the main meetings. I wasn’t sure about his ‘commentary’ style, but overall I really enjoyed it – particularly after I began to relax and get into the week! I think it’s one of the major things I really miss at Fordham, although Sunday@6 is a step in the right direction it’s still not quite there really. Still.
- Carl Trueman’s morning seminars on church history. He was speaking on Athanasius, Martin Luther, Blaise Pascale and John Gresham Machen. I really enjoyed the whole series – Carl Trueman is a very entertaining and engaging speaker who is obviously passionate about what he is talking about. I think my favourite seminar was on Martin Luther, and I’d love to learn a bit more about church history and these characters who made the church what it is today.
- David Cook preaching on Acts in the mornings (the daily readings, as the sessions were called). Very inspiring in terms of evangelism, and I think he’s very much mission-focussed. I particularly enjoyed what he was preaching about “Jesus plus nothing”, i.e. we cannot add anything to the gospel in the way that the Jews were adding circumcision to the gospel as a requirement for being saved.
- Socially we had some good times as well, going down on the beach was one! – but also playing charades together, having a nice glass of wine in the evening with the other leaders (not with the children, I hasten to add!), and Starbucks of course!
I think that’s pretty much it for the week. Now, much more briefly, the wedding on Saturday: Dan and Alison were getting married on Saturday at Wivenhoe parish Church. The service itself was really nice, despite one or two technical hitches with the sound system! And the Deep Space 9 theme tune does sound good on the organ 😉
Afterwards we headed out to a golf club in Maldon for the reception. It was a great reception – we had a really good meal with people (the carvery they head was delicious), and then a live band afterwards. We hadn’t had a good dance in ages so had a chance to work off some of the meal!
After that, Alex and Karen stayed with us overnight and we all had lunch together on Sunday. Apologies for the brief summary of the wedding, it’s just been a bit busy recently! Right, I’ve got to go and do something productive.
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Day 236: Microphone
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First Daily Shoot I’ve done in a while, due to being away! The assignment is "Make a low-key photograph today."I’ve tried to do that with this photo, basically use a lot of darker tones. I think it came out surprisingly well, you’d be amazed if you saw what I was actually doing while taking the picture (i.e. crouching down on the floor trying to hold the microphone up).
This is a Shure SM-58 mic, which as they say on the box is a "legendary vocal microphone". No particular significance to the challenge today but I think the grille on the top looks pretty cool.
