Photo-a-day project passes 50
I thought I'd update you on my long running photo-a-day series (details can be found in a post here) as I've just passed day 50 as well as sharing a few links to a few photographers' projects and pictures I've been enjoying recently.
The latest picture (above) is a simple grab shot taken as I was walking along Oxford Street snapping a few pictures. Inevitably someone thrust a flyer at me so I thought I'd return the favour and snatch a frame.
It's a manual focus camera so I was lucky that the shot is not that far off being sharp, the movement all adds to it anyway.
One other picture I posted recently shows a , well actually the "loves" is in the shape of a heart, but you get the idea.
The photograph also includes a very feint reflection of a heart shape in the window that sort of makes the picture.
During the course of the project I'm beginning to see little objects or marks like this and capture them, no they are not great pictures, but as a whole the project is forming into an interesting set of things that captured my attention.
I'm deliberately trying not to just take pictures of people I meet or socialise with, though some inevitably fall into that category. This is not a diary, just weird stuff that I seems worthy of recording.
Following the graffiti post I had a message from on Flickr who pointed me towards a set of work called , again on Flickr.
Dan has nearly 200 shots on file that capture messages or in some cases it text on a sign. Some are permanent markers on the landscape while others will just wear away or be replaced, yet the camera has preserved those moments, those thoughts that someone felt important enough to take the time to write out for all to see.
One photographer who has really got into the whole photo-a-day thing is , now that's what I call commitment.
Many of his pictures are a visual diary of his life but others reflect his interest in capturing abandoned objects in the landscape.
Andy notes that:
"It works as a wonderful memory enhancer and visual journal of the past few years as well as being an almost spiritual practice of sorts. I think I'm on my eighth or ninth camera since 2003 with a few shots gathered from borrowed cameras, Polaroids and video still grabs to cover periods between repairs and replacements."
Well, good luck Andy, keep going.
I've also continued monitoring the pictures added to Flickr with a Kodachrome tag and again it's thrown up some fascinating pictures.
, though it's a digital version made using a Kodachrome filter, so doesn't count, but then maybe that's the future for lovers of this film. The colours look a little too hyper to me though.
One other picture that's of interest is this by , Jess reckons it's from the 1950s, the whole
As before I'd love to hear from anyone who is shooting their own project, whatever the subject or format, digital or film, and I'll mention some of them as we go along. So if you'd like to be featured send me an e-mail.
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