2008 – My Year In Pictures

Title: A Curly Quartet
Location: At home
Camera: Canon EOS 30D / 24-105mm EF f/4 L IS USM
Notes: Messing about with some candles this evening.

Title: Curvy Cat
Location: At home
Camera: Canon EOS 30D / 17-85mm EF f/4-5.6 IS USM
Notes: Totally miserable weather outside all day. But this week’s 366 theme is Animals, so I thought I would take a still life of this glass cat sculpture.

Title: Enigma XII
Location: At home
Camera: Canon Ixus 850IS compact
Notes: Another enigma for you. Any guesses?

Title: The Miller’s Window
Location: Stock Windmill
Camera: Canon EOS 30D / 17-85mm EF f/4-5.6 IS USM
Notes: Paid a visit to Stock Windmill today as they had the mill open for viewing this afternoon. The three floors could be accessed via rickety stairs. It was pretty dark inside, with the exception of this lovely window with a few ears of wheat propped up on the sill. It made a nice found still life image. And for those of you familiar with my previous frustrations, yes, the sails were still pointing in the wrong direction for a good picture!

Title: Contrasts
Location: At home
Camera: Canon EOS 30D / 24-105mm EF f/4 L IS USM
Notes: A now for something completely different… The contrast between this and yesterday’s shot struck me immediately. Today was grey, wet and miserable – the complete opposite of the vibrant sun we had 24 hours earlier. The sunflower was living, outdoors and colourful. These were silk, indoors and lit by the drab light of a north-facing window. I deliberately went for the high-key approach and overexposed the image – this is pretty much as it was straight out of the camera, apart from a slight crop. As this week’s theme is Red (which I’ve rather done to death on Day #88!), I was trying to emphasise the colour in the roses whilst bleaching out the net curtain behind.

Title: A Plastic Heart
Location: At home
Camera: Canon EOS 30D / 24-105mm EF f/4 L IS USM
Notes: Bit of a last-minute shot today. I had hoped to get something on the way home from a meeting this evening, but it finished later than planned and it was quite cloudy when I drove back. This is the lid of a cheap plastic trinket box which I had kicking about at home.

Title: Polo Holes
Location: At home
Camera: Canon EOS 30D / 50mm EF f/1.8 + 12mm extension tube
Notes: I was messing about with white things today, and managed to find some Polo Holes. Very rare, you’re lucky to see them.