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Day 187: Crocuses
Day 187: Crocuses Originally uploaded by phillsacre The Daily Shoot assignment is: “Make a photograph of something that is glowing today. Use any meaning of the word you like.” Well, one of the dictionary definitions is: “brilliance or vividness of colour”. I think these crocuses qualify 🙂 It’s a definite sign that spring is just
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Day 186: Old Telephone
Day 186: Old Telephone Originally uploaded by phillsacre The Daily Shoot assignment today: “Make a photograph that illustrates the idea of connection”. Well I saw this old telephone today and had to use this as my daily shoot. I love these old style telephones. I tried to make the photo look like it came from
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Day 185: Brick Wall
Day 185: Brick Wall Originally uploaded by phillsacre The Daily Shoot assignment: “Make a photograph featuring strong horizontal lines today.” I think this fulfils that criteria – just a plain ol’ brick wall, with some creeper on it. Or whatever kind of plant it is! 🙂
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Packt Publishing
Over the past year or two, I’ve been contacted about three times by Packt Publishing, asking me if I want to write a book for them. The first time round (actually it might be the first couple of times), they asked if I wanted to write a book on IceFaces, a product I was using
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Day 184: Peace and Tranquility
Day 184: Peace and Tranquility Originally uploaded by phillsacre The Daily Shoot assignment is: “Illustrate your idea of peace and harmony–or maybe just peace and quiet–today with a photograph.” Well, this photo isn’t perhaps everyone’s idea of peace and tranquility! But what I really wanted to capture in this photo is the isolated nature (or
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Half way through Project 365…
Well, today is day 183 of my Project 365, erm, project. Challenge. I’ve done 182 photos, and I have 182 photos remaining. I can’t believe it’s gone so quickly – although the prospect of doing another 182 photos is slightly daunting! That said, having come half way does break a psychological barrier. I’ve done half
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Day 183: Water droplets
Day 183: Water droplets Originally uploaded by phillsacre The Daily Shoot assignment is: “Beauty is all around us. Make a photo of some naturally occurring beauty in your area today.” Well today it was raining so I didn’t hold out much hope of getting outside, let along getting a photograph! But the rain eased up
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Day 182: Waiting for Spring
Day 182: Waiting for Spring Originally uploaded by phillsacre Daily Shoot: “Make a photograph today that illustrates of the act of waiting.” Apologies for doing a lot on spring recently, but as soon as I saw the assignment that was my first thought! Waiting for spring to arrive. You can see the buds here are
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Stuff and Things
Can’t think of anything more exciting to post than that unfortunately! It’s half-term this week, so it was the last 21 of this half-term on Friday night. It went pretty well, I was doing the talk and I think they were generally paying attention and understood. On Saturday we didn’t end up doing all that
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Day 180: Shoots
Day 180: Shoots Originally uploaded by phillsacre The Daily Shoot assignment is: “Work with scale today and make a photograph that features a subject either larger or smaller than expected.” Well these are some bulbs that are coming up in our garden at the moment. They’re only a couple of inches high but I think