Laineee the wannabe photographer

Despite how it appears from the complete lack of blog activity, my photo a day project has actually gone surprisingly well. However, instead of posting here, I found a rather nice site to host my daily project, and the results can be found here: Laineee's calendar.

While the quality of the photos has been mixed to say the least, the whole project has rekindled my love of photography and inspired me to want to improve and find a way to consistently take decent photos. With that in mind, I decided to give a photography composition workshop a try. Although the results are mixed, I definitely learned some things that I will try to bear in mind on my future travels. With any luck, when I come back from New Zealand I will have photos I can be proud of.

That said, I looked back at my photo history with my new found knowledge and found a few I am extremely happy with. Maybe there is hope for me after all!

2012 in pictures - 2nd Jan

So far, so good, albeit today's picture is another lazy effort really. Which is apt, because it is a picture of my choice of how to spend a lazy evening.

However, I have decided that I won't be using my blog for my daily picture after finding this website: Shuttercal . I like the idea of seeing my pictures in calendar form, and am hoping that this might spur me on to keep up with the project. Also, there is far less pressure in just uploading a pic to a calendar rather than having to come up with a blog post every day. See, there's me being all lazy again.....

2012 in pictures - 1st Jan

Last year, I was impressed by a number of people on my Twitter timeline who managed to stick to taking a photo a day for an entire year. While thinking that it was a marvellous idea, I knew there was absolutely no way I had the staying power to do it myself. Except that I've somehow allowed a friend (@Mistyuk11) to talk me into doing something similar for 2012. I still think that I won't last any more than a week or so - certainly my record in keeping this blog up to date last year suggests that I have no chance - but I'm at least going to give it a try.

For the 1st of January, I decided to go with something entirely predictable - a review of my 2011 in theatre:

Sadly, I can't promise any improvement as the year goes on... but I do promise I'll try!