Thursday 30 July 2009

211/365 - Wicker Man

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211/365 - Screwed

Another shot from my "bathtub studio"

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Wednesday 29 July 2009

210/365 - In the pub

I'm over in St. Helens before I head down to the Cambridge Folk Festival tomorrow so me and Dad went out to the Sandpiper for dinner.

Not sure how many photos I'll manage to upload over the next few days but rest assured they will eventually appear.

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210/365 - Discontinuity

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Tuesday 28 July 2009

209/365 - Radial

Looking up outside Tower Gateway DLR station.

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209/365 - Rain

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Monday 27 July 2009

208/365 - Geeking about

I got new printer today, it is nice. However I couldn't afford one which was network enabled so I have set about building a print server from some spare bits I had in the house.

This is the mother board.

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208/365 - Through the cracks

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Sunday 26 July 2009

207/365 - Change Is Possible

Today I took inspiration from the car park payment machine in Newbridge's White Water Shopping Centre.

Every time I go to pay and I'm feeling a little like I'm stuck in a rut, it reminds me that 'Change is possible'.

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207/365 - Stripey Dawn

One of the unique advantages of fatherhood is geting to see things like this. The sun made an amazing pattern of orange stripes, accross the cornfield in front of our house, as it rose this morning.

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Saturday 25 July 2009

206/365 - Flowers

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206/365 - Plant

Visited the glass houses at the botanical gardens today but I didn't make a note of what anything was - drat!

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Friday 24 July 2009

205/365 - I've got the cure you're thinkin' of

Today I got issued with Tamiflu by my employer - the whole company has been given it "just in case". I wasn't sure what I ought to do with it (not having flu) so I decided to take it's photo.

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205/365 - Paul, Dave, Larry & Adam

I'm off to see U2 in Dublin tonight, so I made likenesses of the four band members out of Honey Due Melon. I call them HoneyDU2.

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Thursday 23 July 2009

Wednesday 22 July 2009

203/365 - Celebrate

Labhaoise got some great news related to work today, not going to go into too much detail but it was great!

We celebrated with some faux Champers and a starbar!

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203/365 - Fifty fifty

My new (well new to me) 50mm lens has arrived. Pete got his ages ago and has been making great images with it ever since and *everyone* on flickr seems to have one so I finally gave in and bought one from ebay. I went for the mkI version as it is supposed to be better built and has a better manual focus ring. This lens was discontinued in 1990 so is a bit of a collectors item too.

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Tuesday 21 July 2009

202/365 - THE OY QZ

Labhaoise and I played scrabble this evening using a pocket Scrabble set.

It is possibly the smallest scrabble set I've ever used!

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202/365 - My usual seat

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Monday 20 July 2009

201/365 - 20 Years Apart

I found a NES whilst clearing the attic, it now lives with my Wii!

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201/365 - Success!!

I'm now officially ready for master chef :-)

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Sunday 19 July 2009

200/365 - Bosco

Found this Bosco puppet whilst clearing L's Mam's attic.

For those not in the know (which i most people outside of Ireland) Bosco is/was a children's tv character in the early 1980s.

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200/365 - Two hundred!

After days of planning (and freezing) I was all set to make a version of this shot with "200/365" frozen into the ice block. Unfortunately I droped the ice on the way out of the freezer so I had to have a rethink.

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Saturday 18 July 2009

199/365 - Reflection

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199/365 - Born in the wagon of a travelling show

Had a great time at Dan & Jemma's wedding it was brilliant to see old friends. The reception was at a lovely farm with a beautiful landscaped garden and some gypsy caravans.

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Friday 17 July 2009

198/365 - Infinity

I've been struggling with this theme all week. I have tried things with mirrors, long tunnels made from Lego and real tunnels, but none of them came out well.

So I've just had to take the easy way out with a picture of the inifinity symbol on my 17-85 lens.

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198/365 - Paradise

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Thursday 16 July 2009

Wednesday 15 July 2009

196/365 - Blue panel on a green door

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196/365 - Geometric

I had another one of the themes lined up for tonight but I just couldn't get it to work out as I wanted so I had a quick scout around for something else.

This is the driver's side headlamp of L's car, a KA. The curves and intersecting lines very much say 'Geometric' to me. Also I looked on Wikipedia (afterwards) and this is not too disimilar from the 'Tomahawk' geometric shape.

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Tuesday 14 July 2009

195/365 - Bokeh Bokeh Bokeh

I dug out some christmas lights and but them over the back of a chair, put Labhaoise's guitar in the foreground and snapped away.

There are a few more on Flickr if you care to look.

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195/365 - Winter

I have no idea why but it is easier to get a London snow storm in Cambridge than a Cambridge one.

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Monday 13 July 2009

194/365 - Colour

This is my response to the 'Colour' theme set by Andy.

It is a house made out of very brightly coloured fake Lego bricks from the 2 Euro shop.

Once I finished the house I noticed that if you looked through the bottom that it looked pretty cool. So I set up the flash and this is what I got.

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194/365 - Lifestyle

This week my brother has set me 5 challenges/themes to use in my 365 shots. I've got the 5 titles swimming around in my head and I've spent all day looking to tick one off so when I found this receipt in the Tesco self service checkout I instantly thought "Lifestyle" - sure its not the perfect lifestyle but none the less. I've also been wondering about doing my own version of Ceal Floyer's work so I think this fits the bill (pun intended) on both counts.

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Sunday 12 July 2009

A bit of a challenge

Dearest Readers,

Andy and I have passed the half way point of our project 365 and, I'm sure he won't mind me saying, we are getting a bit stuck for ideas. Taking this on board Andy concocted a challenge whereby we nominate themes for the other.

These are the "rules":
  • We each name five themes on a Sunday, they will be published on the blog (see below)
  • All the themes must be used before we resume our normal photography adventures
  • A single photo can encompass more than one of the themes
  • Each theme can only be used once
I think that pretty much covers it, we will try this out this week and we may make it a more regular thing.

I guess all that is left to do is set the themes for this week:

Pete's Themes for Andy
  • Winter
  • Blue
  • Paradise
  • Conformity
  • Lifestyle
Andy's Themes for Pete
  • ABC
  • Colour
  • Bokeh Bokeh Bokeh
  • Geometric
  • Infinity
Hope you enjoy it,
Pete

193/365 - Back lit

Playing around with the off camera flash again and combined it with my translucent guitar.

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193/365 - The Big Weekend

The band and choir from church playing at the big weekend on Parkers Piece.

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Saturday 11 July 2009

Friday 10 July 2009

191/365 - Lego Camera

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191/365 - Buzz off

On our walk this afternoon I found loads of bees on a lavender bush. I tried to get some shots but the bees were pretty quick. At least I didn't get stung!

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Tuesday 7 July 2009

188/365 - Truck

Not very happy with this but it has been a tough day.

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188/365 - Looks like yet another robot!

Was playing around with off camera flash this evening and took this picture of my hair clippers. The really need cleaning!

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