Christmas is over.....

...and we all seem to have/have had colds.  I currently have a very sore throat but it doesn't seem to stop me eating chocolate or drinking wine !

The snow has all but gone now, we have had a big thaw and everywhere is slushy and wet.  So I am glad I got out when I did to take the snowy, frosty photos.

My 365 project is almost complete now too - only 1 more day to go. It has taken a lot of discipline to make sure I take a photo each day, and some of the photos are a bit....erm.... random!  But at least I have (nearly) completed the project.  I do hope I remember to take tomorrow's photo !

Today, for the project, I photographed a tulip from a bunch I have in the house at the moment.  I have said before that flower photography is my favourite type of photography to do, and I did enjoy myself for half an hour or so today while shooting it. 

This is one of my favourites.  I started off using a black card for the background, but there wasn't really enough light to shoot hand-held using natural light, even though I was shooting in the morning.  So, rather than get the tripod out or bump the ISO up really high, I used a lighter coloured background card, which I had forgotten I had, to bounce some of the window light back.  It also fitted in beautifully with trying to shoot flowers against a similar coloured background, as I have mentioned before. 

Hope you all had a lovely, relaxing and peaceful Christmas time - see you in the New Year

Sx

It's still very cold.....

....but that is actually how I like it ! 

Yesterday, for my 365 project photo, I went out into the garden with my macro lens on my camera, to look for more detailed photos of the frost and ice.

These two pictures are very similar, but I like the clump of ice crystals on the right of the second photo.

In this photo I particularly like how the frost picks out the vein detail in the leaf.

At this time of year, and with all the frost, the photos have an almost mono feel about them.

The thaw is, apparently, on its way - no doubt we'll have more snow soon.  Probably before the ice on the driveway has melted !

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More Snow.....

..... fell overnight

This is the field next to our house.  We often see owls and kestrels in that little barn over the hedge, and there are bats roosting somewhere nearby.  I have shot this view for my Project 365 several times this year, and am thinking that next year's project may be a weekly shot of this view, to show how it changes though the year, both naturally and as a result of farming.  Hmmm, maybe I need to think of something that will make it a bit more interesting tho.....

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Project 365

At the very end of last year I decided that in 2010 I would do a Project 365.  All this means is that I would take a photo EVERY day, without fail.  So far I have managed to do this, but as the end of the year is getting closer, I am having a little panic that I will forget to do one day, or be somewhere without a camera, or lose my memory card or...........

The pictures are varied, no theme joining them apart from that they are part of The Project, some are interesting, some not so much, but they record something I did or saw or thought on that particular day of 2010.

If you want to have a peep, click on my flickr page link

www.flickr.com/photos/sue-in-nz/

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