Day 293: Pink Flower Originally uploaded by phillsacre Via Flickr: Daily Shoot assignment: "Make another beautiful shot today, but pick a subject that’s completely different than yesterday’s" Well this is a different subject! I don’t know what kind of flower it is but I happened to see it at lunchtime.

Day 292: Pool Originally uploaded by phillsacre Via Flickr: Today’s Daily Shoot is just to "make a beautiful photograph" and not to over-think it. Well I tried to do that but just taking a photo of what was to hand, and I think it came out well. At church today we had a baptism by…

Day 291: Pink Flowers Originally uploaded by phillsacre Via Flickr: These are some flowers from our garden. I think they’re quite a striking colour. I think it’s called Lichness but I could be wrong on that one.

Day 289: Shiny Guitar Originally uploaded by phillsacre Via Flickr: Daily Shoot assignment: "Make a photograph of something smooth". Well this is a picture of (part of) my guitar, light reflections shown to indicate the smoothness.

Day 288: Tick Tock Originally uploaded by phillsacre Via Flickr: Daily Shoot assignment: "Illustrate time in a photograph today." I am sorry to whoever did a similar photograph for the last Daily Shoot challenge like this, but I sort of nicked the idea. Not that it comes over as well. The watch is also a…

Day 287: Shiny Leaf Originally uploaded by phillsacre Via Flickr: Daily Shoot assignment: "Make a photograph of something shiny today". This is a leaf which was spraypainted recently. I don’t think it was spraypainted on purpose, but someone was graffitting the side of an old WWII pillbox and this leaf kind of got in the…

Day 286: Amplifier Grille Originally uploaded by phillsacre Via Flickr: Daily Shoot assignment: "Make a photograph that features a grid of some sort today." This is the grille on the front of my guitar amplifier. I quite like how it tunred out – quite abstract!

This was the weekend of Colchester Summer Beer Festival 2011 – but more on that story in a moment! Just a quick round-up of the weekend’s events. On Friday night, as there was no 21, we had AJ and Jen round for dinner. As always it was a pleasure to see them both, we showed…

Day 283: Knife and Apple Originally uploaded by phillsacre Via Flickr: Daily Shoot assignment: "Focus on an edge today and make a photograph" Here the edge is a knife edge. I’m not sure it’s very clear that’s what the focus is, but still!

Day 282: Symmetric Leaves Originally uploaded by phillsacre Via Flickr: Daily Shoot assignment: "Illustrate symmetry in a photograph today." Well these leaves are reasonably symmetrical at several levels (both within the leaf and as part of the branch). Symmetry in nature.