Day 153 - Thursday 30 September 2010

Crystal. Close-up of the cut glass detail in a wine glass. Lighting courtesy of the PC monitor and halogen bulbs...

...Sony alpha200, Sigma 18-200 f3.5-6.3, 1/60 @ f5.6, ISO 800

Day 152 - Wednesday 29 September 2010

Strainer. Following the surprise of yesterday's picture, I've been raiding the cooking utensil drawer to see waht else looks good on the orange ironing board. This is the underside of a stainless sreel serving spoon and it's shadow...

...Sony V1, Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonar 7-28 f2.8-4, 1/10 @ f2.8, ISO 400

Day 151 - Tuesday 28 September 2010

Say Cheese! A rather surprising shot of the inside of a cheese grater. When I took this I intended to convert it to mono for the patterns of light and shade, but I used our bright orange ironing board as my macro table which added some rather stunning colour to the picture...

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

Day 150 - Monday 27 September 2010

Zig-zag. Rather jazzy and interesting pattern on a cloth covered glasses case...

...Sony alpha200, Sigma 18-200 f3.5-6.3, 1/25 @ f6.3, ISO 800

Day 149 - Sunday 26 September 2010

Bottle. Close-up of a ribbed plastic water bottle full of water, lit with a purple screen and home office lights...

...Sony V1, Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonar 7-28 f2.8-4, 1/80 @ f3.2, ISO 400

Day 148 - Saturday 25 September 2010

In memory. Gravestones at St Margarets Church in Crick, Northamptonshire...

...Sony alpha200, Sigma 18-200 f3.5-6.3, 1/160 @ f6.3, ISO 100

Day 147 - Friday 24 September 2010

Silver Lining. Had a go at photographing the moon tonight... quite badly as it turned out! I wanted to show both the moon and the clouds which I was only able to do by combining two images taken at very different exposures...

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

Day 146 - Thursday 23 September 2010

Television. Thunder, lightening and a trorrential downpour prompted me to look up through the Velux window in the extension ceiling where I noticed the double reflection of the TV screen...

...Sony alpha200, Sigma 18-200 f3.5-6.3, 1/30 @ f6.3, ISO 1600

Day 145 - Wednesday 22 September 2010

Six. Today's activity was a navigation excercise... not a lot of navigation involved (the route was along a canal tow path!) but there was a lot of excercise... 10 miles of it! The finish point was the 'Mucky Duck' pub in Woolsthorpe and this pint of 1664 went down very quickly...

...Sony alpha200, Sigma 18-200 f3.5-6.3, 1/640 @ f6.3, ISO 200

Day 144 - Tuesday 21 September 2010

Stopper. A heavy blue glass stopper in the kneck of a carafe, backlit with the computer screen...

...Sony V1, Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonar 7-28 f2.8-4, 1/80 @ f4, ISO 400

Day 143 - Monday 20 September 2010

Birds on a wire. Yes... it's the telegraph pole outside my house again! I've been waiting for a flock of birds to settle on the wires for a while. It's something they do all the time... except when you're waiting for them to do it...

...Sony V1, Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonar 7-28 f2.8-4, 1/250 @ f6.3, ISO 100

Day 142 - Sunday 19 September 2010

Fluid. I decided to have another go with the screen backlight technique, this time with the much larger screen of the desktop PC instead of the netbook screen. The subject is a glass beaker branded with the logo of a famous soft drinks manufacturer...

...Sony V1, Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonar 7-28 f2.8-4, 1/80 @ f4, ISO 400

Day 141 - Saturday 18 September 2010

Duplex. I have just bought a new Hewlett Packard printer for my daughter, Sian, to take to university. This is a picture of a large opening in the back which I think is the duplexing unit...

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

Day 140 - Friday 17 September 2010

Brick in the wall. I have an apology to make... today was a very busy day, being the last day of the course. Lots of training to get in before lunch then the long trip home, which took a mammoth 5 1/2 hours up the M20, M25 and the Dartford tunnel, M11, A14 and A1. I was so knackered I didn't get to take a picture today. So here is another one from Wednesday's trip into Lydd...

...Sony V1, Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonar 7-28 f2.8-4, 1/250 @ f4, ISO 200

Day 139 - Thursday 16 September 2010

Cheeky! During a 15 minute break in training I noticed some rather interesting pictures hanging in the NAAFI! Whatever keeps the troops happy :) It was very dark in there so it required a very carefully handheld 1/8 exposure at ISO 800...

...Sony V1, Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonar 7-28 f2.8-4, 1/8 @ f4, ISO 800

Day 138 - Wednesday 15 September 2010

Window. Took a stroll into the sleepy local town of Lydd after tea. There are quite a few of these buildings with timber clad upper levels...

...Sony V1, Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonar 7-28 f2.8-4, 1/160 @ f4, ISO 200

Day 137 - Tuesday 14 September 2010

Pylon. Out on the training area... again I have to be careful with the camera so I've confined myself to this picture of a pylon...

...Sony V1, Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonar 7-28 f2.8-4, 1/250 @ f7.1, ISO 200

Day 136 - Monday 13 September 2010

Stained Glass. Day 1 at Lydd for more pre-deployment training. This picture is the back of a FIBUA (fighting in built-up areas) village on the camp. This part isn't real buildings but a boundary wall that looks like terrace housing on the inside. No photography allowed inside so I could only take this picture outside the facility...

...Sony V1, Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonar 7-28 f2.8-4, 1/50 @ f4, ISO 200

Day 135 - Sunday 12 September 2010

Pear. Busy sorting and packing kit today so my 365 picture is a bit of a rush job. I took a pear from the fruit bowl and decided that would be my subject, I only needed to find a way to shoot it...

...Sony V1, Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonar 7-28 f2.8-4, 1/13 @ f3.2, ISO 800

Day 134 - Saturday 11 September 2010

Red Dragon. I've been toying with the idea of getting a tatoo for some time. Today I finally decided to get it done to cellebrate finishing the mobilisation course at Chilwell. Today's picture is the result...

...Sony V1, Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonar 7-28 f2.8-4, 1/20 @ f2.8, ISO 400