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just like exactly two years ago - something powerful and sunny for the very beginning of the New Year. Happy 2010, whoever is watching!
the photo was taken very close to Brandon Creek, far west into Dingle Peninsula.
My housemate, Sarah, has been home in the States for Christmas, and while she has, I’ve been looking after her two cats. Due to the fact that Peggy Sue pee’d on my bed – while I was in the room – back in Sept I haven’t let either of them into my room. Though when Sarah is away I get woken at 6am by Peggy’s scratching on my door. So this time I decided to allow them into my room, as well as sleeping on my bed – which they’ve taken to doing, finding a comfortable spot at my feet.
I don’t really believe in making new years resolutions.
However, this year there is one thing that I would like to try and keep up for the entire year. I would really like to undertake a 365 Project - that is, post a picture every day for 365 days. I have half-heartedly tried this in the past but never managed to keep it up due to the very poor excuse that starting on a random date partway through the year never really kept me motivated. Starting with photo #1 on the first day of the year (and also, the first day of the decade!) sounds so much more impressive that it will, psychologically, be more difficult to miss a day - thats the theory anyway!
I will endeavor to post a photo which has been taken within the previous 24 hours and summarises my day in some shape or form. Exceptions to this will be when I have no net access in which case I will try and back-date my posts to include a photo taken on that day. Obviously not every day is going to be easy to photograph, the challenge will be to find new and exciting ways to depict the often dull and mundane repetitions of my every day routine! Small versions of the photos will be posted on the blog but I will also try and post larger versions to my flickr stream.
So without further ado, here is photo 001/365
I actually had difficulty choosing a photo! We visited Avebury today, site of a stone circle predating Stonehenge. I took quite a few shots of the stones but in the end chose this image of my sister and brother-in-law silhouetted against the first sunset of the decade.
We called over to a friend’s house yesterday evening and even though I had heard there would be an eclipse I completely forgot about it. My Dad even texted me at 6.25pm that it’d be happening between 7pm and 8pm but I still forgot. Lucky he rang my wife and she reminded me of the event!
Unfortunately I only had my Sigma 18-200 zoom. The Canon 75-300 was at home so this is a severely cropped shot of the moon. I thought there was going to be a full eclipse but it wasn’t to be and only a shadow fell across the face of our nearest celestial neighbour.
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