2008 – My Year In Pictures

Title: Best Seat In The House
Location: At my parents’
Camera: Canon EOS 30D / 24-105mm EF f/4 L IS USM
Notes: Mum is an avid tennis fan, and she’s glued to the box during Wimbledon fortnight. I visited for lunch today, and there’s no prizes for guessing where she was camped out after we had eaten. The Men’s Final was quite a Marathon, and was, of course, accompanied by the obligatory strawberries. At least we didn’t have to don our macs during the interruptions for rain!

Title: Pushing Up The Daisies
Location: Ingatestone
Camera: Canon EOS 30D / 24-105mm EF f/4 L IS USM
Notes: For the second time in a week, I tried to get a train up to London today, only to get to the station to find everything up the creek thanks to a fatality at Romford. Last Thursday it was a jumper somewhere else, but still the same effect! What is it about Thursdays? Anyway, I drove home via some nice back lanes and saw this scene as I stopped at a post box to post some important letters.The sky’s not great as it was raining at the time, but I liked the Daisies and Dandelions running riot on the greensward, with the blossom trees in the background.

Title: Ealing Broadway, 2 Mins
Location: Liverpool Street
Camera: Canon Ixus 850IS compact
Notes: I had to visit the Big Smoke again today, this was a quick shot on the way across town from Liverpool Street to Shepherd’s Bush, a journey I know well from my years of commuting.

Title: Signs Of Spring
Location: Longstomps Avenue, Chelmsford
Camera: Canon Ixus 850IS compact
Notes: OK, the Orton Effect has been done by lots of people before, but not by me! Found a good tutorial on how to get the desired effect this morning, so decided I would try and find a suitable shot today to test it out. I’m quite pleased with the result. You may be seeing more in the future!