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30-day photo challenge, day 1
Wednesday 4th of January 2017
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 . 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…
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OCOLOY Week 52
Thursday 7th of April 2016
And here it is, the final week ! It’s been quite the journey, and I think has served its purpose excellently. I know my X-E1 and 35/1.4 now, their strengths and weaknesses, and I can set them up for a shot instinctively. I’m comfortable with the 50mm-e field of view, which I certainly wasn’t in the beginning . One perhaps surprising result of this experience is that it’s really dulled my cravi…
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OCOLOY Week 51
Wednesday 30th of March 2016
For this penultimate week, I decided to bend the rules a little, in that I actually used my X100 all week instead of the X-E1 and 35/1.4, thus foregoing the ‘one camera’ and ‘one lens’ aspects entirely. Not even the same focal length. But man have I missed the X100. I sent it to my brother months ago since he wanted to see if that 35mm-e field of view suited him before buying the equivalent lens f…
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OCOLOY Week 50
Monday 21st of March 2016
Fifty! Only two more after this, the end feels so close now. I’ve started forming some vague ideas about what I want to do with the huge volume of photos I’ve accumulated over the past year (and a bit, since I stalled several times). Since most of the pictures are from within a few miles, I think I’m going to do a kind of documentary project about Lowestoft and the surrounding areas, possibly from…
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OCOLOY Week 49
Sunday 13th of March 2016
Oops. I seem to have missed a week! Honestly, there’s no good reason for this, just a combination of forgetfulness and lack of motivation; that week, I really didn’t get out to take pictures much. Fortunately, this week was rather more productive: not only did I manage to get out for a few early morning walks, today Zoe and I went to Framlingham Castle ! That last time she was there the market wa…
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OCOLOY Week 48
Monday 29th of February 2016
All this week I’ve felt like this OCOLOY post was going to be pretty good, as I made a decent effort to get out with my camera several times and got some nice pictures as a result. I would have written this on time, too, except I got distracted by my shiny new printer, a Canon Pro-10S. It’s an A3 pigment ink printer, and it’s lovely – already I’ve gone through most of a 50 pack of PermaJet matte p…
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OCOLOY Week 47
Sunday 21st of February 2016
Following on from marriage on Tuesday, Zoe and I went on a small honeymoon to a country house hotel in northern Norfolk, courtesy of her sister. It was a little dark by the time we got there, thanks to some roadworks delaying us by half an hour on the way, but we still had time to enjoy a lovely walk around the large National Trust park behind the hotel. country garden livestock warning branches a…
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OCOLOY Week 46
Tuesday 16th of February 2016
Bit of a departure this week, as for one thing this post is late, but I have a good reason: I got married! Even though it was a low-key thing, it was still a bit stressful getting things prepared, so not much time for picture-taking. The other departure is colour. Most of these pictures were taken in Beccles and although the monochrome versions are ok, I still feel like the colour is necessary wit…
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OCOLOY Week 45
Sunday 7th of February 2016
Quite a ‘close to home’ week, this one, in that I didn’t really venture any further afield than Lowestoft, at least not anywhere photographically interesting. There industrial estate near Beccles where we went for breakfast, at a café called Posh Pigs, might have borne some fruit, if the weather was nicer and we’d had more free time to spend there, so it might be worth a return trip (even if just …
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OCOLOY Week 44
Sunday 31st of January 2016
Busy at work this week, and you know what that means: not many pictures taken – few enough, in fact, that I had to scavenge some from last week to make 7. The week wasn’t a total lazy-fest though, as I’ve started going running again, 3 times a week, using a 10K training thing on my phone. I say ‘running’ but at this stage it’s actually 80% walking, but given how unfit I am, running for 1 minute at…
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OCOLOY Week 41
Sunday 20th of December 2015
I digressed a little this week, photographically speaking: the first two pictures in this post are not from the usual 35mm lens. The first is from the Fuji 18 – 55mm f/2.8 – 4, the mid-range ‘kit lens’ that most people seem to think is undeserving of the negative connotations such a term suggests. It certainly is a nice lens, especially given its price when bought as part of a kit, but I think I’ve be…
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OCOLOY Week 37
Monday 23rd of November 2015
I was getting a little worried that this week would be a washout, with the weather generally being wet and windy, but fortunately there were a few days of shine and I made an effort to use that nice light. Winter sun is probably my favourite kind of light – it combines the low and long shadows of a sunset/sunrise, but with a colder, whiter, more etherial feel. road arrow road arrow tree and walk…
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OCOLOY Week 28
Tuesday 22nd of September 2015
Gosh what a rainy week! About five of the days it rained all the while there was sunlight, leaving me few opportunities for picture-taking. reflection in blue plastic reflection in blue plastic bikes lined up outside Costa bikes lined up outside Costa insect-looking leaf insect-looking leaf tram tracks to fence tram tracks to fence chainlink fence closeup chainlink fence closeup heavy cl…
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OCOLOY Week 24
Sunday 23rd of August 2015
I’m wavering. Black and white, or colour? I can’t settle on one, I like both. I think it’s the weather – shiny days make me want to capture in colour, and the weather represented by this week’s pictures is certainly sunny (and for walking around Ipswich, sometimes uncomfortably so). Although I did a bit of shooting during the week, none of it resulted in much of interest, so all of these pictures …
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OCOLOY Week 23
Sunday 16th of August 2015
I will admit up front that I cheated just slightly with this week’s post, in that a couple of the pictures aren’t from the previous week’s shooting, but are instead from around a month ago when Zoe and I went to a nearby forest. Still, had I been actively participating in my project at the time, I would have used those pictures, so it’s not too much of a stretch. tap and blind shadows tap and …
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