30-day photo challenge, day 1

Wednesday 4th of January 2017

• 30-day-challenge
• black-and-white
• photography
• project
• self-portrait

I guess ‘challenge’ isn’t the right word really, more of an inspiration: this is a list of photo idea prompts for the next 30 days, which I saw on Rinike’s blog.

1. Self-portrait

• What you wore
• Clouds
• Something green
• After dark
• Obsession
• Changes to come
• Routine
• Someone you love
• Childhood memory
• Something blue
• Sunset
• Cannot live without
• Eyes
• Silhouette
• A good habit
• Technology
• Your shoes
• Something you want
• In my bag
• Faceless self-portrait
• Inspirational
• Patterns
• Animal
• Strangers
• Close-up
• Celebration
• Flowers
• Black & white
• Self-portrait

I’ll post the first picture today but after that, to avoid spamming the posts list I’ll wait until each 5th day.

I recently found the battery charger for my Ricoh GR Digital III, and since I had the camera handy on my desk I figured I’d use it for today’s picture. It is not ideally suited to portraits, self or otherwise.

I’ll try to use it a bit more in the coming days and see if I have anything worth writing about a 7 year old camera. It’s nice, though, except sometimes when I switch it off it makes a horrible buzzing/grinding noise and the lens fails to retract.