A Photo A Day

The object of a 365 photo project is simple - to take a photo everyday for a whole year. It's a popular concept that has spawned groups on Flickr and elsewhere. It's fun. It's educational. It's a great record of a year of your life.

I failed with my first attempt at a 365 project back in the mid noughties. But I did succeed in 2008/9 when I managed to take a photo a day, every day, without fail from October 19th round to the following October 18th. All of those photos are available on this blog.

I'm currently doing it all over again, but will go one better this time. As 2012 has a leap year, this time I'll be snapping 366 photos. And unlike 2008, when I lived in Mexico, these photos will record a year of my life in the UK.

Another change this time round will be the camera I use. In 2008 I used a Panasonic TZ5 travel zoom. I still have it, although I sport a shiny Olympus PEN as my prime camera these days. But that won't shoot any of my photos in this project.

This time I will be using the camera on my cell phone. Which is a Samsung Galaxy S2. It has an 8mp camera, and whilst its ultimate image quality falls well short of a proper camera, it's still good enough for this project. This project is meant to be spontaneous, experimental and fun.

One thing that will be just like last year though - the Photo of the Month vote. Stay tuned...

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Day 104

Dyson, one of the last internationally recognised bastions of British ingenuity. That isn't a bomb, missile or other tool of war...

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Day One Hundred Three

 

Ringwood has a brewery. And like all good English breweries, they make the most of the imagination we humans possess when naming the stuff.

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Day One Hundred Two



A traditional English pub with a thatched roof, with many fond memories. Directly behind it, and therefore out of view, is a petrol station. Once part of the Texaco.Star Service Stations network. Until 2005, when Somerfield took it over. I worked there as a supervisor from 1996 till 1999, and returned to manage it from 2002 to 2003. My first stint was the happier. Both stints saw me pay many visits to the Fish Inn pub. 

I celebrated the new millennium there on Dec 31st 1999/Jan 1st 2000. There was no Y2K bug during the celebrations. A girl hit on me that night. I was very drunk, and as I couldn't quite see straight and make an informed decision on her looks, I passed the opportunity. I saw her a few days later. Super freaking hot. So...not the best decision I ever made. It was unlikely she'd ever be drunk enough again to offer me a second opportunity.

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Day One Hundred One



Chez Denness, from inside looking out. A quiet, every day street in a reasonably affluent part of rural southern England.

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Day One Hundred



Today's shot is a big milestone in the project. A hundred days, a hundred photos. Almost a third of the way. I always think that, if done right, trees in winter look like upside down blood vessels. This isn't quite right. But it's close and still nice.

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Day Ninety Nine



I did a review on my Sony media player a while back. I still love it. Although I wish it did the Channel 4 and ITV online content too. The only other complaint I have it the remote control. It does what it's meant to do very well. But it doesn't have a qwerty keyboard, and that's a frustration when searching for videos on YouTube. I can use my Android phone, via the Sony app, which does have a Qwerty keyboard. But connection is patchy.

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Day Ninety Eight



One of those every day scenes of utterly normal, boring, mundane life that is the point of my 366 project.

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