Photography is about careful planning. Hours and days of research, forays into the undergrowth to check for lighting conditions, recording the position of the sun, the shadows, the quality of the light. Checking for fields of view, obstructions, ways of making the shot better in post-processing. Sometimes you can take the same shot a dozen times ( Read more... )

I've accepted a challenge to produce a photograph a day to fulfil various criteria which change on a daily basis.
Some have been fun, some have been tricky, and some have just been *click-Challenge Completed* but they've been fun so far.

Here are a few of my favourites so far. And why is this client trying to spell-check the word *here* ?

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I am a photo-slut at the moment. I'm taking pics for a Daily Challenge, taking shots for myself, taking shots to learn how to take shots...I keep forgetting to upload them. So here are a few. Some birds, some still life, some (badly) Photoshopped, some just for fun. This may be a biiiig and image heavy post, so all behind the cut :

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A cold snap.

You see? It's a pun. A cold snap is a period of cold weather. And also a photograph of the cold weather. And the noise part of me made half way through photographing the photographs of cold weather. It's okay, I probably didn't need it anyway...

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It was minue two when I took these...it isn't camera shake but photographer shake that caused the blurring!

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It's a *boding* month. It bodes well for interesting light. It bodes badly for weather. Or goodly, I'm never sure. Poor for transport infrastructure, but superb for photos.

I caught two by surprise today. I don't usually have my camera *with* me, although it is in the car ready. However:

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Here's a thing. Most of you know, because I keep banging on about it, that I go every month to the gig in London called The Distraction Club ( Read more... )

I went out yesterday to get some bird pictures. Having lugged my camera gear, tripod and shooting stick across loads of mud and flood to get to That Tree Where All The Birds Live I set up and waited. For nearly an hour, in the cold, with the ice still on the puddles. Eventually some finches and a couple of jays turned up deep inside the bush. I ( Read more... )

Photography is about careful planning. Hours and days of research, forays into the undergrowth to check for lighting conditions, recording the position of the sun, the shadows, the quality of the light. Checking for fields of view, obstructions, ways of making the shot better in post-processing. Sometimes you can take the same shot a dozen times ( Read more... )

I thought I'd show some *VERY LARGE* things, and some *VERY SMALL* things this time.

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