Jaz Design

Just a quick one today.

ETA: My boyfriend says my description is crap, so, I took this early on in the day, it’s a giant candle my best friend gave me for my birthday last year. It’s on my windowsil and I like to look at it while I’m working. I changed the tone slightly to get rid of all the blue from the outside light.

A mundane photograph today, I’ve been really busy trying to get my major research project up to spec (ironically on photography and photo sharing websites). I took this when the sunlight made everything look an interesting tone during the rain. I think the rain on the roof looks like ice.

Just the view out of my window, where I gaze when I’m procrastinating It’s not terribly interesting.

I’ve been taking “mindfulness” classes for the past month. Unfortunately I stopped doing the stuff at home like I should so I’ve been trying to get back into the swing of things before the next one on Wednesday. I came up with this photograph when doing the mindful yoga. Again experimentation with the shutter speed.

I may blog about the class tomorrow, I really enjoy it. It’s mostly about being in the moment and focussing – I think this photograph evokes that quite well.

I wasn’t sure about the light in the top left? What do you think.

I was playing with shutter speed with this. I happened to glance out of our kitchen window and spy the interesting clouds. It’s been quite a grey day here in Portsmouth, but I liked this sign that the longer days and warmer (well not much warmer) weather will return.

I’m not 100% happy with the composition but I didn’t realise until it was dark that this was the case :S I don’t like that that top left part of the clearing is cut off, but other than that I quite like it.

Also looking at it afterwards, I wasn’t sure if there was too much light in the bottom half of the picture – I think I need to experiment further with this.

All in all, a learning type day

Nothing special today. I forgot until quite late so I was already curled up in bed watching Bones.

I was just messing around with my webcam – not brilliant quality, but whatever

I had to take my car home today which meant coming back on the train – something I’m very familiar with as I commuted Guildford to Portsmouth for two years. A boring photo for a boring ride for a reason which took up much of my day.

Click the image for flickr goodness.

So I have two new years resolutions, one which will probably fail because I’d forgotten Mars eggs existed is the no buying chocolate resolution – see here. The second is Project 365 (I guess 366 this year).

The objective is to take one photograph a day to help you grow as a photographer, learn what’s important to you and to keep a visual memory of your year.

I only discovered this today so I’m a day late, but it’s a leap year so I’ll still have 365 pictures.

I also plan to blog about each picture, so here’s the first one, and it’s not pretty Came home to my student house today, I’d left some wine glasses in the mister’s room because they were mine and didn’t want them breaking, turns out after a week they grow mold!

Gross but interesting. I also like what the flash did with the glass! I used my phone camera for this cause I had it handy

And yes that is our kitchen sideboard, but we’ve not been here so it’s not our mess

As an aside I had a wonderful, romantic new years and feel I started this year really really well. Happy new year everyone!