Showing posts with label photo-a-day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photo-a-day. Show all posts

#photoadaydec

#photoadaydec
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is a wrap on 2012 for Photo A Day!
It's been a hell of a year of photos... I actually still remember first seeing this "Photo A Day" thing pop up on Instagram and then having to produce my first four photos all in the one day to catch myself up.

And looking back through the previous months, I can pretty much remember the taking of every photo for the year.

I struggled with some of the photos at the beginning and end of this month though (especially days 3, 6, 10, 18, 23 and 29... 29 was a day late because nothing occurred to me until it was too late), but I feel like I mostly found a groove from about Day 14 to Day 22.

Day 14 also turned out to be the most popular photo of the month (it's amazing what you can do with some green cardboard), as well as my second most popular image of all time.

There were 6 Lego related photos for the month (Days 4, 14, 19, 23, 27 and 30), bringing the total Lego Photo A Day photos up to 46, which is an average of just under 4 a month.

My personal favourite image of the month has to be Day 19, just because I put a bunch of effort into the planning and set up of the shot, although I do like a number of the shots from the middle of the month that are just strong, solid colour photos (Days 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22).
  • Day 1: 8 o’clock (on a Saturday at 8am, you'll find me in the supermarket)
  • Day 2: Peace
  • Day 3: Something I held
  • Day 4: Black + white
  • Day 5: Looking up (the Victoria Square Christmas tree)
  • Day 6: From where I live (the Central Market is pretty iconic to my city)
  • Day 7: Stars
  • Day 8: Someone I love (with the bunny standing in for Ma)
  • Day 9: Out + about
  • Day 10: Under (the Merry Go Round under the Gawler Place pagola)
  • Day 11: Sweet
  • Day 12: Hat
  • Day 13: Lights (the neon sign of a tattoo parlour)
  • Day 14: Something green
  • Day 15: Outdoors
  • Day 16: Something I made (Christmas goodies with Ma)
  • Day 17: On the floor
  • Day 18: Makes me feel merry (Ultra Lounge Christmas carols)
  • Day 19: Something beginning with 's' (I can actually count 8 things...)
  • Day 20: Weather (clear blue skies do not make for interesting weather photos)
  • Day 21: Tree
  • Day 22: Decoration (the ribbon for Ma's presents)
  • Day 23: Joy is... (giving thoughtful gifts to the people you love)
  • Day 24: Tradition/something I always do (get pizza on Christmas Eve)
  • Day 25: Lunchtime
  • Day 26: Mess (not really a mess, but it's taking up space)
  • Day 27: How I relax (I relaxed for eight straight hours making this)
  • Day 28: Cold (yummy Loca Pop!)
  • Day 29: Hot
  • Day 30: Something that made me smile this year
  • Day 31: Self-portrait (just me and my monkeyfeet)
I'm not sure yet whether I'm going to take part in the 2013 edition of Photo A Day (I guess I have another 24 hours before I have to make a definite decision)... but the list is on FatMumSlim's website, as always.

Current Mood:

#photoadaynov

#photoadaynov #fmsphotoaday

I swear that I only started doing this Photo-A-Day thing about five minutes ago, and look, suddenly it's the end of November and I've got eleven months worth under my belt.

For the most part this month didn't present any particular challenges... I think I only missed one day (Day 22) but caught up with it the following day when I saw the Burger Theory truck. This month also presented an unusual opportunity (Day 14) since I had to go down to Glenelg for a conference, and I took some time beforehand to snap some photos, including one of the jetty.

It was also a light month for Lego... only three photos this month (Days 11, 20 and 23), which brings the grand total for Lego to 40.

The most popular image this month was Day 16... although personally I really liked Days 10, 14 and 20.
  • Day 1: Something beginning with 'c' (C is for chemist)
  • Day 2: Colour
  • Day 3: Breakfast (if I'm being honest, this was "second breakfast" or just "artfully staged for the purposes of Photo-A-Day" breakfast)
  • Day 4: TV
  • Day 5: 5 o’clock (the storm clouds were rolling in at 5pm)
  • Day 6: A favourite thing (Benzo, my favourite street artist)
  • Day 7: Reflection
  • Day 8: Something I do everyday (check out cute guys)
  • Day 9: Small (these little tiny bugs were crawling all over me while I sat in the park)
  • Day 10: Can’t/won’t live without (Farmers Union Strong Iced Coffee!)
  • Day 11: Night (I went with the homophone version of this, but I also took the shot of this knight at night)
  • Day 12: Drink (from the La Cantina Co food truck)
  • Day 13: Where I slept
  • Day 14: Man-made (this kinda made me want to live by the beach, it was great wandering along before starting my day)
  • Day 15: In my bag (I've photographed my regular bag a couple of times already, so this time I chose the bag I got from the supermarket)
  • Day 16: The view from my window
  • Day 17: The last thing I bought (bright green drink that tasted a lot better than it looked)
  • Day 18: Happened this weekend (revisiting the old Bond movies before seeing the new one)
  • Day 19: Something awesome (getting artwork and underwear in the mail on the same day)
  • Day 20: Work/play (Little Traveller filling in for me again... but in duplicated form)
  • Day 21: What I wore (this is pretty much what happens every day when I get home, although I generally don't leave it all on the floor)
  • Day 22: Grateful (I'm grateful to food trucks in general, but Burger Theory specifically
  • Day 23: Black (my Lego minifigure bad guys collection... bandit, spaceman, gangster, knight and ninja)
  • Day 24: A sound I heard (this nice lady playing the violin in the Mall)
  • Day 25: Sky
  • Day 26: In the cupboard (I don't really have any photogenic cupboards)
  • Day 27: Tree
  • Day 28: Vehicle (food trucks again)
  • Day 29: Big
  • Day 30: On the wall
And with that we enter the final stretch for 2012... check out the December list!

Current Mood:

#photoadayoct

#photoadayoct #fmsphotoaday

The beginning of October seems like it was a long, long, long time ago now. I'm not entirely sure why... it's been the regular amount of days, it just seems longer somehow.

It's been a bit of an odd month, but fortunately I haven't really had any major instances of photo-inspiration block. The main problem was Day 5, given that it was completely overcast all day, so I couldn't get a shadow until the following morning.

There are only two Lego shots this month (Days 9 and 10), although Day 10 was a surprise hit... and is now equally tied for my "most liked" photo... clearly my Instagram followers like it when I do things with Lego minifigure heads.

  • Day 1: Where I stood (while doing a Lego minifigure photoshoot)
  • Day 2: Lunchtime (I went somewhere different for lunch, Zambrero on Rundle Street)
  • Day 3: This happened today (this was supposed to be a shot of the conference I attended in the morning, but the photos weren't very good, so instead it's my Veggie Velo lunch)
  • Day 4: What I read (I don't read things that aren't on a screen all that much anymore, so reading the artists, titles and prices at the These Walls Don't Lie art show was about it)
  • Day 5: Shadow (my big stupid head on my front door)
  • Day 6: I’m thankful for (TV shows with great writers)
  • Day 7: Light
  • Day 8: Angle (one of the many angles of The Festival Theatre)
  • Day 9: Red
  • Day 10: Emotion
  • Day 11: Something close-up (my new headphones)
  • Day 12: On the table (for Hat Day supporting mental health research)
  • Day 13: Landscape (I'm a city boy, so the parklands are about as landscapy as I get)
  • Day 14: Makes me laugh (the people I work with... this started out as a drawing I did on the board at work because I was the only one who didn't have leave listed... one workmate decided I needed to be a Pokemon trainer, then another decided to turn me into Hamburglar, then a third decided that Hamburglar's hat looked Jewish and turned me into Herchel the Jewish Pokemon Trainer)
  • Day 15: Dinnertime
  • Day 16: Something I wrote (me being very literal)
  • Day 17: Fruit
  • Day 18: Made me smile today (the Unboxed exhibition at Espionage Gallery)
  • Day 19: Letters
  • Day 20: 4 o’clock (afternoon snack)
  • Day 21: Calm
  • Day 22: In my town (one of the bronze pigs of Rundle Mall)
  • Day 23: The view from here
  • Day 24: Weather
  • Day 25: People
  • Day 26: Listening to (the Moby Dick podcast)
  • Day 27: Morning (going shopping)
  • Day 28: Looking back (this vase is the first and only time a guy has bought me roses... and I collected those shells within the day before he went back to the US)
  • Day 29: Moon (getting the real moon was too damn difficult)
  • Day 30: Clothes
  • Day 31: Whatever I please

And we now enter the home stretch... next up is November...

Current Mood:

#photoadaysept

#photoadaysept #fmsphotoaday

So this is September... Photo-A-Day-wise anyway.

This month's photos came easier than last month's, although at the end of the month I did have a little bit of a creative bottleneck (Day 27 specifically, but it spilled over to Day 28 as well).

September's Lego photos (Days 3, 10, 12, 16 and the aforementioned 27) have some of the shots ones I'm proudest of for the whole month (Days 16 and 27 particularly), and as usual they're the most liked photos (in order, Days 12, 3, 16). They also bring the year's total of Lego photos up to 35.

Although I think Day 7 is my absolute favourite... the bright green grass and three slightly sleepy pelicans... gorgeous.
  • Day 1: Me, now (I kept trying to think of something clever for this... but in the end, went with what I was wearing)
  • Day 2: Father (I've had this statue of one of the Asian deities for a while)
  • Day 3: Far away (good old DOF)
  • Day 4: In my mailbox
  • Day 5: Bright (this was a hard one, but I finally my big glass "diamond" and my LED torch came to the rescue)
  • Day 6: Every day (I make this walk every work day)
  • Day 7: Natural (the middle pelican gave me the evil eye as I approached)
  • Day 8: At night
  • Day 9: Something I do most weekends (read the paper and drink Iced Coffee)
  • Day 10: Hero (Lego Superheroes... and a Supervillain)
  • Day 11: Black + white (or, as I commented on Instagram, "Caution: Floating hipsters in this area)
  • Day 12: Together (once again my LED torch came to the rescue and made an average shot pop)
  • Day 13: Table
  • Day 14: Favourite (my favourite chocolate is Haighs)
  • Day 15: First thing I see (this is a little bit of a cheat... it was actually the first thing I saw when I remembered I hadn't taken a photo yet)
  • Day 16: Strange (putting this one together was a little time consuming, but fun... zombie popstar, vampire geisha and Frankencheerleader)
  • Day 17: In my fridge (oh, look, a Ketchup Dunny in my fridge!)
  • Day 18: Price (the sodas at La Cantina Co are very yummy)
  • Day 19: Underneath (sitting underneath a tree enjoying my lunch)
  • Day 20: Man-made
  • Day 21: Sometimes (marshmallows are a sometimes food... and they're only available from Haighs during some of the year)
  • Day 22: Up (on the wall at the Bakehouse Theatre)
  • Day 23: Before bedtime (laying out my breakfast dishes)
  • Day 24: Three things (my three Lunartiks)
  • Day 25: Frame (Popeye framed in the City Bridge over the Torrens)
  • Day 26: Near (the Burger Theory "Shizzle" Artburger)
  • Day 27: Love/hate (the love/hate relationship I have with my body in Lego form)
  • Day 28: A good thing (street art in my neighbourhood is a good thing)
  • Day 29: Errand (I needed some duct tape)
  • Day 30: Me, then (Baby Me seems to have a strong opinion about something)
As always, the October list for Photo-A-Day can be found over on FatMumSlim's blog...and Chantelle did an interesting wrap up of the month there too...

Current Mood:

#photoadayaug

#photoadayaug

Another month, another month's worth of Photo-A-Day photos...

This month hasn't been quite as bad last month, but there were a few images that were definitely thrown together at the last second (Days 2, 4, 13, 15, 25).

And the Lego quotient was down this month (Day 5, 6, 26)... only three Lego related shots (for a total of 30 for the year to date)... but some of my other vinyl toys did show up instead (Days 1, 13, 17, 18)... although the ones in Day 13 are actually wood.

It was also the first time I've done two images that you could count as a set (Days 1 and 18)... outside and inside.

There's also been quite a bit of food in the latter half of this month (Days 15, 16, 19, 21, 23, 25).
  • Day 1: Outside (outside the box)
  • Day 2: One
  • Day 3: Coin
  • Day 4: Somewhere I sat (I didn't really sit anywhere that day since my chiro told me to sit as little as possible)
  • Day 5: Logo (this one was a given)
  • Day 6: Writing (the writing itself is from when I used to write questionable gay vampire erotica)
  • Day 7: 8 o’clock
  • Day 8: Glasses
  • Day 9: Messy (Hard Rubbish Day... finally!)
  • Day 10: Ring (my grandfather's signet ring... unfortunately his initials look like a dollar sign)
  • Day 11: Purple
  • Day 12: Spoon (this was cleverer in my head...)
  • Day 13: Simple
  • Day 14: Arrow
  • Day 15: Ready (dinner's ready)
  • Day 16: Food (Taco! Taco!)
  • Day 17: Faces (vinyl toys for the win!)
  • Day 18: Inside (inside the box)
  • Day 19: Hole (mmmmmmm donut)
  • Day 20: Today (the return of Topham Wall)
  • Day 21: Cool
  • Day 22: Home (Pearl, the Burger Theory van, returns home after getting some work done)
  • Day 23: Pair (a pair of fresh buns... again, worked better in my head)
  • Day 24: Path
  • Day 25: Fresh
  • Day 26: Dream
  • Day 27: Tap
  • Day 28: Clock
  • Day 29: Down
  • Day 30: Card (three of my favourite business cards)
  • Day 31: Hidden

And, as always, the list for September can be found on FatMumSlim's blog... she also wrote an interesting article on "how not to fail photo a day".

Current Mood:

#photoadayjuly

#photoadayjuly

I'll confess, July has been the most difficult Photo-A-Day month so far... I'm not sure if it's the winter weather, or a lack of inspiration... but I got stuck on Day 2 and didn't manage to unstick myself until Day 4. And a few other shots have either not completely come together or else been last minute versions, and very few have actually been planned out in advance (with the possible exception of Days 6 and 15).

I also think that this month has more carefully stage-managed shots than previous months (specifically Days 2, 20 and 25) beyond the obviously set up shots.

It was also a low Lego month, with only four shots (Days 1, 4, 17 and 29), bringing the total Lego Photo-A-Day entries up to 27. Almost a whole month's worth.

Day 10 taught me an important lesson about my iPhone... if you let the lens get all covered in pocket fluff then your photos will have a weird diffused quality to them... which isn't great.

  • Day 1: Self portrait (Little Traveller standing in for me again)
  • Day 2: Busy (I wasn't at the time, this is a completely fabricated shot)
  • Day 3: Best part of my day (hometime)
  • Day 4: Fun (I wasn't having any, so I made my own)
  • Day 5: On the floor
  • Day 6: Chair
  • Day 7: Garden
  • Day 8: Lunch
  • Day 9: Big
  • Day 10: My favourite colour (red, obviously)
  • Day 11: Letter
  • Day 12: Texture
  • Day 13: Open (an open sign, in an open bin at a gallery opening)
  • Day 14: Building (or, rather, a tree inside a building)
  • Day 15: Finger
  • Day 16: Sign
  • Day 17: My addiction (addictions actually... Lego minifigures and Iced Coffee)
  • Day 18: Plate
  • Day 19: Animal/insect/pet
  • Day 20: Eyes (my eyeBirds making an appearance)
  • Day 21: 9 o'clock
  • Day 22: Upside down
  • Day 23: Mirror
  • Day 24: A stranger
  • Day 25: Heart
  • Day 26: Sunshine (I really thought this day's word was sunLIGHT)
  • Day 27: On the road
  • Day 28: Cup
  • Day 29: Last thing I bought (he's stuck on my keyboard at work now)
  • Day 30: Calm (the river has very often been my calm place)
  • Day 31: Toothbrush
And for new players, you can find the August list here...

Current Mood:

#photoadayjune

#photoadayjune

It really is starting to feel like I should do one month of Photo-A-Day entirely with Lego... the two most liked photos from this month were Days 3 and 15... and 15 was a last minute replacement when the photo I'd planned didn't work out.

It's also been the month with the most Lego shots so far... nine in all (Days 1-3, 6, 11, 15, 18, 24 and 30)... and finishing and ending with Lego.

And it has proved yet again that sometimes good shots happen at without any planning (Days 5, 12 and 19)... although the reverse is also true (Day 23).

  • Day 1: Morning (what I put together at work first thing in the morning)
  • Day 2: Empty (it was the only empty spot in my collection... but it's filled now)
  • Day 3: On my plate
  • Day 4: Close-up
  • Day 5: Sign
  • Day 6: Hat
  • Day 7: Drink
  • Day 8: Six o'clock (wrapping Ma's birthday presents)
  • Day 9: My view today
  • Day 10: Best bit of my weekend (was the fact it extended out to Monday)
  • Day 11: Door
  • Day 12: From a low angle
  • Day 13: Art (my ever expanding art collection)
  • Day 14: Time
  • Day 15: Yellow
  • Day 16: Out and about
  • Day 17: In my bag
  • Day 18: Something you don't know about me (mostly you don't know what I look like... and for the record, I don't really look like any of these four either)
  • Day 19: Imperfect
  • Day 20: Fave photo I've ever taken (one of the models I met back in Camera Club days)
  • Day 21: Where I slept
  • Day 22: From a high angle
  • Day 23: Movement
  • Day 24: On my mind (my noisy neighbours)
  • Day 25: Something cute
  • Day 26: Where I shop (for chocolate)
  • Day 27: Bathroom
  • Day 28: On the shelf (I also bought the shelf... and it's contents)
  • Day 29: Soft (my favourite blanket)
  • Day 30: A friend
It's kinda hard to believe we're already halfway through the year... but July's list starts tomorrow.

Current Mood:

#photoadaymay

#photoadaymay
You have no idea how glad I am that May is over! Seriously, this month has been a total disaster and I can only hope that June brings better things!

Days 5-20 detail my two weeks of solitary confinement due to my back problems... in fact Days 6-12 were all taken on Day 12 when I was finally able to move around a little...

There were much fewer photos that were planned out in advance this month, although there were still a few (Days 4, 22, 24 and 29)... I think pretty much everything about this month became much more ad hoc than normal.

The most popular image of the month turned out to be Day 18, the zombie related cross stitch I did two years ago.

  • Day 1: Peace (mornings are always peaceful... it's the one time I'm guaranteed peace)
  • Day 2: Skyline
  • Day 3: Something I wore today (my favourite scarf)
  • Day 4: Fun! (May the Fourth Be With You on Star Wars Day)
  • Day 5: Bird
  • Day 6: Me (the note the doctor gave me... indicating that I was essentially fucked)
  • Day 7: Someone that inspires me (my favourite artists inspire me)
  • Day 8: A smell I adore (I love the smell of old books and old bookstores)
  • Day 9: Something I do everyday
  • Day 10: A favourite word ("fuck" was a useful word during my confinement to bed)
  • Day 11: Kitchen (Ma made me soup!)
  • Day 12: Something that makes me happy (Lego minifigs... the whole seventh series)
  • Day 13: Mum (She's a superhero)
  • Day 14: Grass
  • Day 15: Love
  • Day 16: What I'm reading
  • Day 17: Snack
  • Day 18: Something I made
  • Day 19: A favourite place (Perryman's Bakery in North Adelaide)
  • Day 20: Something I can't live without (very literally, sunshine and oxygen)
  • Day 21: Where I stand (on my legs but with a walking stick)
  • Day 22: Pink (two pairs of pink undies)
  • Day 23: Technology
  • Day 24: Something new (Peter Drew makes new things out of old things)
  • Day 25: Unusual (Vampire Bunny fits the bill)
  • Day 26: 12 o'clock (time to take my pills)
  • Day 27: Something sweet
  • Day 28: The weather today
  • Day 29: A number (RIP Topham Wall Street Art Gallery)
  • Day 30: My personality (I'm complex, but snarky)
  • Day 31: Something beautiful (he wore that coat very well)
Have I mentioned how glad I am that we're moving on to the June list...

Current Mood:

#photoadayapril

#photoadayapril
And so we come to the end of Month 4 of the Photo A Day project...

This month took in Easter (Days 6-9), a very, very brief trip to Sydney (Day 14) and a bout of illness (Day 17... technically through to Day 23, although Day 17 was kind of the worst of it)...

Once again there were days that were planned well in advance (Days 2, 6, 12, 23, 30) and others that were kind of last minute inspirations (Days 5, 13, 25, 26)...

And another instance (Day 18) that I just threw together (Lego hair was a fall back if I couldn't manage to photograph real hair, but I'd originally planned on a different interpretation... the three colours was a last minute thing) and ended up being really popular (relatively speaking).

The obsessive compulsive in me also appreciates that April has 30 days, so it lines up as a perfect six by five grid (as will June, September and November).
  • Day 1: My reflection (taken in the glass of my Sam Evans artwork)
  • Day 2: Colour (the Derwent pencils I've had since I was about 13 or 14)
  • Day 3: Mail (the minifigs I'd been waiting for for ages finally arrived)
  • Day 4: Someone who makes me happy (hot guys on the bus make me happy)
  • Day 5: Tiny
  • Day 6: Lunch (about as religious as I get at Easter... making Fishy Crisps on Good Friday)
  • Day 7: Shadow (at the Kite Festival)
  • Day 8: Inside my wallet
  • Day 9: Younger me (very, very young me in fact)
  • Day 10: Cold
  • Day 11: Where I ate breakfast (the same place I always eat it on a weekday... standing at the kitchen counter)
  • Day 12: Stairs
  • Day 13: Something I found (I had trouble with "found"... plus I was packing for my trip to Sydney, so Little Traveller ended up as it)
  • Day 14: How I feel today (I was in Sydney... so I always feel as happy as Little Traveller looks when I'm in Sydney)
  • Day 15: Sunset
  • Day 16: Flower
  • Day 17: Something I don't like (not toast... I love toast... but I was feeling sick and couldn't stomach anything else to eat... and I don't like feeling sick)
  • Day 18: Hair (there's just something about little Lego heads people love... this flew to the top of my "most liked" photos, and is currently tied with March's Day 5)
  • Day 19: Orange
  • Day 20: Something I drew
  • Day 21: Bottle
  • Day 22: The last thing I bought (I couldn't have planned the headline better myself)
  • Day 23: Vegetable
  • Day 24: Something I'm grateful for (I'm very grateful for hot water... especially after all the trouble I've had during the past few winters)
  • Day 25: Looking down (from the flight back from Sydney a couple of weeks before)
  • Day 26: Black + white
  • Day 27: Somewhere I went (lunch at the Burger Theory truck)
  • Day 28: 1pm (lunch at Jones the Grocer)
  • Day 29: Circle
  • Day 30: Something that makes me sad (all movies... plus one teevee show/episode... that make me sad)
Now onto the May Photo A Day Challenge...

Current Mood:

#marchphotoaday

#marchphotoadaySo after January and February comes March!

This month features more Lego than previous months... in fact Day 5 became my most popular image within about 12 hours! Granted we're not talking huge numbers, but people seemed to like it.

And even though a large chunk of this month was taken up by Fringe activities, none of the photos really feature Fringe things... Days 8, 13 and 15 are all indirectly related to Fringe activities... but that's about it.
  • Day 1: Up
  • Day 2: Fruit
  • Day 3: My neighbourhood
  • Day 4: Bedside
  • Day 5: A smile (who knew this would be so popular!)
  • Day 6: 5pm
  • Day 7: Something I wore
  • Day 8: Window (store window on Rundle Street)
  • Day 9: Red
  • Day 10: Loud
  • Day 11: Someone I talked to today (I didn't really talk to anybody that day, just watched movies and played with Lego)
  • Day 12: Fork
  • Day 13: A sign (the table number sign from my pub burger before a Fringe show across the road)
  • Day 14: Clouds (My birthday!)
  • Day 15: Car (my car waiting for me in the Frome Street carpark after some Fringe shows)
  • Day 16: Sunglasses
  • Day 17: Green
  • Day 18: A corner of my home
  • Day 19: Funny
  • Day 20: Before/After
  • Day 21: Delicious (Burger Theory... food of the gods!)
  • Day 22: Kitchen sink (at work)
  • Day 23: Moon
  • Day 24: An animal (at Bowerbird Bazaar)
  • Day 25: Breakfast
  • Day 26: Key
  • Day 27: My name
  • Day 28: Trash
  • Day 29: Feet
  • Day 30: Toy (so that's five photos this month featuring Lego)
  • Day 31: Where I relax
You can find April's list right here...

Current Mood:

#febphotoaday

#febphotoadayMy slight obsession of January has carried over into February and looks like it's going to continue into March... maybe for the whole year in fact.

The photos I always find the most challenging are the "self portrait" type ones... but I still love the fact that some of the photos just appear to me out of nowhere... like the final day... I'd originally planned something else, but then the weather turned to rain and gave me new inspiration.

And Day 4 is probably my favourite shot from not only our Melbourne trip at the beginning of the month, but also possibly my favourite of my Instagram shots to date.

February Photo-a-day Challenges
  • Day 1: My view today
  • Day 2: Words (Words about words about words)
  • Day 3: Hands (from the Melbourne trip)
  • Day 4: A stranger (Strangers to me and to each other... from the Melbourne trip)
  • Day 5: 10 am (from the Melbourne trip)
  • Day 6: Dinner
  • Day 7: Button
  • Day 8: Sun (There was no sun at all that day)
  • Day 9: Front door (Not mine)
  • Day 10: Self portrait (for the purposes of this shot, I am my clothes)
  • Day 11: Makes me happy (that moment when you open the package and know you've got the right one)
  • Day 12: Inside my wardrobe
  • Day 13: Blue
  • Day 14: Heart
  • Day 15: Phone
  • Day 16: Something new
  • Day 17: Time (Haircut time!)
  • Day 18: Drink
  • Day 19: Something I hate to do (cutting all the little birdies out by hand!)
  • Day 20: Handwriting
  • Day 21: A fave photo of me
  • Day 22: Where I work
  • Day 23: My shoes
  • Day 24: Inside my bathroom cabinet (my hotel toiletries collection obsession)
  • Day 25: Green
  • Day 26: Night (Falls)
  • Day 27: Something I ate
  • Day 28: Money
  • Day 29: Something I'm listening to (the rain on my umbrella)
The challenge for March is on FatMumSlim's website.

Current Mood:

#janphotoaday

january photo-a-day challengeAnybody who follows me on Twitter or Instagram would have noticed that I've been taking part in FatMumSlim's Photo-a-day Challenge for January.

I've enjoyed it... it forced me to take at least one photo a day, it made me think about how best (within my plans for the day or what I had around the apartment) to exemplify the theme of the day.

And I made sure that I used the same Instagram filter for each shot so they would all match up as a group... which fortunately is one of my favourites anyway.

January Photo-a-Day Challenges
  • Day 1: Me
  • Day 2: Breakfast
  • Day 3: Something I adore (Street Art, obviously)
  • Day 4: Letterbox
  • Day 5: Something I wore
  • Day 6: Makes me smile (getting parcels in the mail)
  • Day 7: Favourite
  • Day 8: My sky
  • Day 9: Daily routine
  • Day 10: Childhood
  • Day 11: Where I sleep
  • Day 12: Close-up
  • Day 13: In my bag
  • Day 14: Something I'm reading (The Order of the Stick)
  • Day 15: Happiness
  • Day 16: Morning
  • Day 17: Water
  • Day 18: Something I bought
  • Day 19: Sweet
  • Day 20: Someone I love
  • Day 21: Reflection
  • Day 22: My shoes
  • Day 23: Something old
  • Day 24: Guilty pleasure (collecting Lego minifigs)
  • Day 25: Something I made (from when I painted)
  • Day 26: Colour
  • Day 27: Lunch
  • Day 28: Light
  • Day 29: Inside my fridge
  • Day 30: Nature
  • Day 31: Me again (circa 1978)
Some were a little harder than others... especially since I don't do portraits (Days 1, 20 and 31)... others have been opportunistic grabs on the way from A to B (Days 8, 16, 21, 28 and 30), others were planned out days in advance (Days 10, 18, 25 and 26).

And I have to say that my favourites are Days 1, 10, 12, 21, 23, 26 and 28. But if you really pushed me it would be a toss up between Days 21 and 28.

The challenge for February is on FatMumSlim's website.

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