Day 184 - Sunday 31 October 2010

Shower triptych. I was only going to post one of these pictures as today's 365 but couldn't decide which one. I liked all three from the shoot so the obvious solution was to create a triptych...

...Sony alpha200, Sigma 18-200 f3.5-6.3, 1/40 @ f4, ISO 200

Day 183 - Saturday 30 October 2010

Alien 2. The last picture titled 'Alien' was way back on day 61. This one is the result of laying a thin slice of tomato on the lens of a powerful (1000 candle power!) torch. Close-up & extreemly shallow depth of field curtesy of the reversed Pentacon lens...

...Sony alpha200, Pentacon Prakticar 35-70 f2.8-4 (reversed), 1/200, ISO 200

Day 182 - Friday 29 October 2010

Peek. Messing about with some self portrait stuff again...

...Sony V1, Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonar 7-28 f2.8-4, 1/40 @ f4, ISO 200

Day 181 - Thursday 28 October 2010

Bling. Playing with the reversed lens technique again today. This time with a Russian Jupiter 12 35mm lens from my Zorki 4K outfit. I took a picture of medals in a display case last week, this picture is one of my own medals - the Iraq medal...

...Sony alpha200, Jupiter 12 35mm f/2.8 (reversed), 1/200, ISO 800.

Day 180 - Wednesday 27 October 2010

Shell. I need a couple of images for the PhotoPortal forum monthly competition... a fun competiton for members with no prizes for winning. The theme this month is "Small Object". This tiny shell is one of many collected from a beach in north Wales a few years back. I've used an old Pentacon Prakticar lens from my old Praktica BC1 film camera. It was hand held back-to-front in front of the Sony's body which allows you to get a very close macro shot...

...Sony alpha200, Pentacon Prakticar 35-70 f2.8-4 (reversed), 1/200, ISO 200. The lens was set to f/2.8 but the camera doesn't use this as it thinks there is no lens fitted and assumes a setting of f/1

Day 179 - Tuesday 26 October 2010

Bristles. Whilst I'm on holiday I usually give my face a break from the razor, resulting in a Bob Geldof style beard...

...Sony V1, Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonar 7-28 f2.8-4, 1/8 @ f2.8, ISO 200

Day 178 - Monday 25 October 2010

Afternoon nap. Time for another eyebrow raiser, though conciderably tamer than the last one! This one is more about the framing of my foot in the bedstead than anything in the background...

...Sony alpha200, Sigma 18-200 f3.5-6.3, 1/120 @ f6.3, ISO 200

Day 177 - Sunday 24 October 2010

Tangents. Sunlight streaming through a wooden slatted venetian blind on the landing leaving patterns on the airing cupboard door...

...Sony V1, Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonar 7-28 f2.8-4, 1/125 @ f4, ISO 200

Day 176 - Saturday 23 October 2010

Mars Orbit. Having taken a picture yesterday of a satalite orbiting the sun, I thought I'd fly the other way today and take a picture of the canals on Mars :)
Seriously though... this picture started life as a close-up of a colourful glass blob on the kitchen windowsill at my brothers house. Taken on my mobile phone, it was an aweful out of focus, flat image so I've been playing with the Distort filter menu in The GIMP. This is the result of using the Emboss filter...

Orange SPV E650 mobile phone, no exposure information!

Day 175 - Friday 22 October 2010

Shade. A close-up of the light shade in my bedroom. Look carefully and you'll see the reflection in the brass centerpiece of me lying on the bed taking the picture...

...Sony alpha200, Sigma 18-200 f3.5-6.3, 1/80 @ f6.3, ISO 800

Day 174 - Thursday 21 October 2010

Medals. The lounge in the Mess is called the 'Medal Room' for good reason. There are several glass display cabinets full of medals adorning the walls...

...Sony alpha200, Sigma 18-200 f3.5-6.3, 1/6 @ f4.5, ISO 800

Day 173 - Wednesday 20 October 2010

Calculate. Close-up of the keypad of my cheap (59p from Tesco) calculator. I rather liked the way the keys distorted the numbers...

...Sony V1, Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonar 7-28 f2.8-4, 1/20 @ f2.8, ISO 800

Day 172 - Tuesday 19 October 2010

Reflection. Finished work earlier than usual this afternoon which meant my run could be a bit longer. The extra distance took me to a part of the canal that had been partially drained. This shot is of a large turning area for the boats which still had a reasonable amount of water in it...

...Sony alpha200, Sigma 18-200 f3.5-6.3, 1/160 @ f16, ISO 800

Day 171 - Monday 18 October 2010

Gates. Back in Deepcut and back on the canal running route! These are a set of lock gates left slightly ajar...

...Sony V1, Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonar 7-28 f2.8-4, 1/13 @ f3.2, ISO 400

Day 170 - Sunday 17 October 2010

Fence. Golden late afternoon sunshine illuminating a wire fence on a bridge over the A1 at Grantham...

...Sony alpha200, Sigma 18-200 f3.5-6.3, 1/2500 @ f6.3, ISO 800

Day 169 - Saturday 16 October 2010

Yellow. Sunlight shining through the vertical blinds in our appropriately named sunroom, passes through the thick plastic walls of the tub we use for the laundry...

...Sony V1, Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonar 7-28 f2.8-4, 1/320 @ f8, ISO 400

Day 168 - Friday 15 October 2010

Eruption. Back home for the weekend and I'm relaxing with a beer. Unfortunately, a mouthfull of amber nectar was wasted in the making of this picture...

...Sony V1, Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonar 7-28 f2.8-4, 1/125 @ f4, ISO 400

Day 167 - Thursday 14 October 2010

Grafftti. I go out running most evenings, usually along the Basingstoke canal. It's a very picturesque stretch and even the graffiti is amazing...

...Sony V1, Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonar 7-28 f2.8-4, 1/30 @ f2.8, ISO 400

Day 166 - Wednesday 13 October 2010

St. Barbara's. One of the stained glass windows of St. Barbara's church in Deepcut. The church is made or clad with 'wriggly tin' and the windows depict various military unit insignia...

...Sony V1, Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonar 7-28 f2.8-4, 1/200 @ f4, ISO 400

Day 165 - Tuesday 12 October 2010

Trophies. The trophy cabinet in the foyer of the sergeants mess...

...Sony V1, Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonar 7-28 f2.8-4, 1/5 @ f2.8, ISO 400

Day 164 - Monday 11 October 2010

Plush. This is a picture of the upholstery on one of the plush leather chairs that feature in the public rooms in most messes...

...Sony V1, Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonar 7-28 f2.8-4, 0.62sec @ f3.2, ISO 400

Day 163 - Sunday 10 October 2010

Fire. I'm away on a course for the next 2 weeks, staying in a rather plush Sergeants Mess. This is the fire bell above the door to my room. I hope it doesn't ring whilst I'm here...

...Sony V1, Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonar 7-28 f2.8-4, 1/25 @ f2.8, ISO 400

Day 162 - Saturday 09 October 2010

Masai. Dinner and beers at my brother's house this evening. He has these 3 Masai figures on a shelf between the lounge and dining room. They are back lit by a bright light in the dining room to create the silhouette with further adjustment in The GIMP...

...Sony V1, Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonar 7-28 f2.8-4, 1/30 @ f4, ISO 400

Day 161 - Friday 08 October 2010

Napkin. Nice evening out at the Bindi Indian restaurant with my wife, Debs :) A shot of the napkin and holder shortly before we made a right mess of the tablecloth...

...Sony V1, Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonar 7-28 f2.8-4, 1/25 @ f2.8, ISO 400

Day 160 - Thursday 07 October 2010

Clip. Close-up of the clips on my compact camera case. One is the for the shoulder strap and the other is the freebie mini lens cleaning cloth in a pouch given away with Amateur Photographer magazine a while back...

...Sony V1, Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonar 7-28 f2.8-4, 1/8 @ f2.8, ISO 800

Day 159 - Wednesday 06 October 2010

Posts. The tops of a pair of chunky steel posts at an entrance to the Grantham canal, seen whilst driving home from work...

...Sony V1, Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonar 7-28 f2.8-4, 1/200 @ f4, ISO 400

Day 158 - Tuesday 05 October 2010

Supanova. The idea behind this was to capture the reflections of 3 blue ceiling lights in the bathroom floor tiles. It wasn't working the way I wanted, so I aimed one of the lights down onto the tiles and got this result. I liked the way the flat tile appears to be a 3 dimensional globe and thought it looked like a wierd image from the Hubble space telescope, hence the title...

...Sony alpha200, Sigma 18-200 f3.5-6.3, 1/130 @ f6.3, ISO 800

Day 157 - Monday 04 October 2010

Redmile. We went on another "Navigation Excercise" today. The weather was foggy to begin with which didn't lift for a couple of hours. This picturesque scene is the village of Redmile taken from the Grantham canal towpath whilst the fog was still hanging around...

...Sony alpha200, Sigma 18-200 f3.5-6.3, 1/1250 @ f5.6, ISO 200

Day 156 - Sunday 03 October 2010

Brolly. Definitely needed one today as it was peeing down whilst I stood on the touch line of a rugby field watching my son's team slaughter Southwell 32-0...

...Sony alpha200, Sigma 18-200 f3.5-6.3, 1/320 @ f5, ISO 200

Day 155 - Saturday 02 October 2010

Clock. I've posted a picture of Dandilions before, way back on day 9. They were in flower then. This time the Dandilions have gone to seed...

...Sony alpha200, Sigma 18-200 f3.5-6.3, 1/160 @ f6.3, ISO 200

Day 154 - Friday 01 October 2010

Issue Boots. One month into my mobilisation and these new issue boots are nicely worn in and as comfortable as a pair of slippers...

...Sony alpha200, Sigma 18-200 f3.5-6.3, 1/8 @ f5.6, ISO 800