Tuesday 31 March 2009

90/365 - Nothing else for it...

...I only took one photo today and I took it in a hurry. I had to attend an evetn this evening for work and had about an hour to eat between work and it. I took this photo on the way to the biggest and tastiest burger I've ever had!

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90/365 - Mind the gap

Another commuting photo today.

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Monday 30 March 2009

89/365 - From Above

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89/365 - Commuter

Possibly the dullest photo ever taken but I kinda like it.

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Sunday 29 March 2009

88/365 - Mmmm pie

Lemon Meringue Pie to be exact.

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88/365 - Shrunken head?

I returned to the Curragh today to try and capture some images I saw yesterday but was ill preapred to get, mostly I didn't have my tripod.

This is part of a railing around a monument stone on the Curragh, the monument in question can be seen in this photo.

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Saturday 28 March 2009

87/365 - Dumper Truck Racing

Today Wayne and I went dumper truck racing at DiggerWorld in Kent. I was pretty rubbish (and came last in a field of 18) but Wayne was good getting to compete in the grand final and coming second.

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87/365 - The Curragh

I decided to go outside and look for photos today, I'd seen a monument on my way home from work and I wanted to investigate. However I couldn't get near it in the car and it was too cold to walk any distance to it so I'll leave it for another day.

Anyway on my way home I stopped off on the Curragh and snapped a few shots including this one.

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Friday 27 March 2009

86/365 - My wife's kazoo...

... after I drove over it in the car (by accident)

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86/365 - Aerfort Bhaile Átha Cliath

I was dropping L off at the airport so I snapped a few shots of the new terminal they are building.

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Thursday 26 March 2009

85/365 - YXBA

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85/365 - View from my desk

Although my desk is on the North side of the building I can still see the south bank of the river reflected in the building opposite.

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Wednesday 25 March 2009

84/365 - Speaker

One of my colleagues has been commenting on the randomness of my flickr photos lately.

So not wanting to disappoint here is some more macro shenanigans.

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84/365 - Blocks

Had a busy day today with no time for pictures. This is the only photo I took all day.

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Tuesday 24 March 2009

83/365 - No Indication

The macro fun continues.

And before anyone asks, yes, I could have cleaned my car, in fact I did after this shot but the dirt gives some texture that was sadly missing from the later photos.

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83/365 - Touch 4 Love

Revisted Red Cross Lane again today to go to the builders merchant I discovered yesterday while on my photo mission. I bought a 4.5m length of floor board which I cut into 2 for ease of getting home - apparently the guy who works there can't cut it for health and safety reasons but he could lend me a saw to do it myself. Once I'd got them back over London Bridge my next challenge was what to do with them during the afternoon. My first plan to hide them under my desk was foiled by our security guard telling me that items over 2m in length are not allowed inside the building. I managed persuade our post room to look after them for me then got one of my colleagues to help me carry them to the station in the evening. We got many puzzled looks as we carried them through the crowded city - until today it had never occured to me that I've never seen anyone doing this on my way to and from work. I had already checked the rules for large items on the train and interperetted them in my favour so I was ready for a lively discussion on the platform (and ready to loose to be honest). But no one even questioned me as I confidently went throught the barrier with both planks and strode up to my usual carriage.

Oh and the photo was taken next to Cross Bones graveyard (as featured yesterday) on my way to buy the planks.

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Monday 23 March 2009

82/365 - Vent

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82/365 - Mystery Tour

I got a mysterious message from Rich over the weekend that just contained a link to google maps pointing at Red Cross Way and the assertion that there was something interesting to photograph there. I didn't have much spare time at lunch but I managed to sneak out for 20 minutes with the G10 to have a quick scout down Red Cross Way. I'm already pretty familiar with the street north of Southwark St having enjoyed many fine curries in the Mango Tree and taken a few photos one lunchtime too. But the road as it continues beyond Southwark St was uncharted territory and indeed I did find many interesting things including a strange plantpot, a small park, a builders merchants (more interesting in regard to my current DIY antics rather than photos) and Crossbones graveyard. It is the latter that I am supposing Rich intended to point me at and it is a rather odd sight and not one I think I've been able to adequately capture with the G10 but I'm sure I will be back to try again.

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Sunday 22 March 2009

81/365 - 12th Fret

I've been reading around macro photography lately so expect a few macro shots in the coming weeks.

This is the first; the 12th Fret of my acoustic guitar. I love the way all the cracks and grime on the guitar become visible when photographed this way.

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81/365 - How big?

According to the books our baby is 35cm long today. That seems really big.

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Saturday 21 March 2009

80/365 - Full English

Went for breakfast at the A10 farm shop. I took lots of photos after breakfast but when I got home I decided I didn't like any of them and deleted them.

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80/365 - My Saturdays

I often struggle with finding photos for my Project 365 and today was no exception. I was feeling particularly meh and decided to play xbox all day.

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Friday 20 March 2009

79/365 - Wall

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79/365 - Britannia

I've been thinking about negative space recently - composition not cosmology.

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Thursday 19 March 2009

78/365 - Machine

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78/365 - Trap

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Wednesday 18 March 2009

77/365 - Robots!

The invasion cometh!

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77/365 - Cones

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Tuesday 17 March 2009

76/365 - Soldiers Marching

I had an hour to kill after work before I met up with Rich. I went for a walk around Barbican. I was nice to explore the area in more detail. It is just at the limit of how far I can get in my lunch hour so I don't normally to look around much.

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76/365 - The Man Himself.

St Patrick himself chasing snakes out of Ireland

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Monday 16 March 2009

75/365 - Wood stack

I spent all evening obsessing over my flooring project which didn't leave much time left for a photo.

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75/365 - Burnt Out Toyota

This Toyota was burnt out last night at the entrance to our estate. We talked about calling the fire brigade until they turned up and then we didn't need to.

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Sunday 15 March 2009

74/365 - Snow Patrol

K and I went to see Snow Patrol tonight at the O2. They are really one of K's bands rather than mine but I must say they were very good live. At times I was getting so into it that I found playing with my G10 distracting! It was bump's first ever gig too - We think he/she enjoyed it although it is hard to tell.

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74/365 - In the garden

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Saturday 14 March 2009

73/365 - Lens baby

Baby sitting our God daughter today. Tried to get some shots of her using the lens baby (see what I did there). It was quite a challenge to try and manipulate the lens baby quickly enough to track her as she moved around. My success was somewhat limited. :-)

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73/365 - Fountain

This is fountain down by the river in Newbridge, Co Kildare where I live.

I walked down to the river while trying to lose a security guard who had decided that I looked shifty in the shopping centre and was following me for a while. I resited the urge to go down the escalator and back up again to see if he followed - it would have probably just annoyed him.

Anyway I'm feeling a bit of creative block again and I'm really taking photos for the sake of it. However Tuesday is St Patrick's day so I'll be going ot watch the parade through the town centre and should be able to get some good photos there.

As I am writing this text I suddenly thought I really should have taken some time to look at the fountain from different angles close ups and what have you; so that is my new goal. I'm going to try and look at the world differently.

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Friday 13 March 2009

72/365 - In words

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72/365 - Menagerie

A kiwi that is part fruit part bird, a duck that is a camera, a cat that is an iron and a elephant that is a drum.

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Thursday 12 March 2009

71/365 - A bit of a pickle

These are my favourite brnad of pickle onions. Barry Norman Pickled Onions. I heartly recommend that you try them!

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71/365 - Sticks

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Wednesday 11 March 2009

70/365 - Latton Hills

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70/365 - Rising Sun

This week we've moved out of our house while John the Painter decorates the baby's room and hall-stairs-landing. We're staying with Welsh Andrew in his luxurious guest suite. As I lay in bed this morning the sun was rising behind the house and casting its warm light across the room. One of Andrew's ornaments, a Japanese sake set, caught the sun's rays which I thought was nice so I took a picture.

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Monday 9 March 2009

68/365 Corner shop

I'm carrying only the wide angle zoom day to day at the moment and I'm trying to capture a mix of city landscapes and usually wide angle shots of interesting stuff. This falls into the former category I'd say.

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68/365 - Garden by night

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Saturday 7 March 2009

66/365 - Brolley

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66/365 - Daddy's bike

Isaac sat on Wayne's bike.

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