5 a Day Challenge: End, Normal Service Will Resume Presently

Facebook friends, Twitter followers, Flickr visitors, Blogger buddies and Posterous dropper-byers, thanks for your tolerance with what became a campaign of sustained and relentless spamming. You will be delighted to hear that I return to the nine to five tomorrow and instead of two to three posts per day you will probably only see a couple a week, if that.

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It's a bit of a relief for me too, and it's not that I ever tired of taking photos, but with my only self imposed rule being that I post five photos a day I found that I felt undirected and as a result there's little cohesion in what I've shown. The trouble is, and I may have stated this before, that when one is required to take a photo or a set of photos everyday they end using their routine as their inspiration, and sometimes the minutia of your own life seems to familiar to truly inspire.

Also, this blog isn't meant to be a personal journal, but instead should be about photography. 

Anyway, here's the last #5adaychallenge post, a challenge which I failed by the way, I missed a couple of days… hokum.

 

 

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Back to the grind tomorrow... Enjoy May Day.

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5 a Day Challenge: Day 8

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These are yesterdays photos, photos from and for Friday 29th of April. There were a few distractions yesterday, mainly things imbibed and scoffed, and a little matter of the future King of England and current Duke of Cambridgeshire getting hitched.

 

11 AM was Pimms O'Clock and the camera came out for social photography (Facebook filling) only. So I've struggled to find 5 shots I feel I can grace the galleries of Flickr and my blog with. So I'm going to cheat today, I'm skipping one of my 5 a day (let's say it's the banana that I usually have chopped up with my muesli) and help myself to an extra Will & Kate cupcake instead.

 

Yumm!

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On a sidenote, I met a keen amature photographer yesterday and wanted to share her website.

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5 a Day Challenge: Day 7

Today Prince William and Kate Middleton become the Duke and Duchess of Cambridgeshire after exchanging vows at Westminster Abbey in front of a waiting nation. Yesterday wedding fever had already gripped the capital and there were many people enjoying the weather and the atmosphere of the wedding.

I'm rather cynical about the whole affair, I'm grateful for the day off and but I can not help but look on at the circus London has become with a derisive sneer.

I'm not sure if that cynicism has touched my photography, I will let you decide.

 

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Oh, and there's a photo of a couple of flowers in there too... just because.

And screw it, have a panoramic shot of the lake too...

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5 a Day Challenge: Day 6, Photos 2 to 4

The issue with this challenge, well, one of the many issues of this challenge is that at some point I will be forced to record the minutia of my life and present it as something other than the humdrum. So instead of photos of say, a classic car, you get photos of my new climbing shoes and my ashy ankle, or instead of a night shot of the HMS Westminster you get three cocktails (all mine by the way) lined up on a messy table (no leading lines, no golden rule)... I'm sorry. I will try harder, raise the standard and lower the alcohol level.

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I hope these photos go some way towards making an amends.

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5 a Day Challenge: Day 3

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All taken in Abney Park yesterday and all SOTC now that I'm shooting JPEG and I'm without editing software.

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5 a Day Challenge: Day 1 4/5

I didn't think this through... the problem with this challenge is that I either have to go through the my old photos and hope there is something postable amongst them or I need to take five post worthy photos in a day, edit and then post them... and I'm not doing very well so far. 

Last night I was a works party in the Namco Arcade on Southbank. That would have been a great oppurtunity to take some shots, and I did get three decent ones, but it was also a great opputunity to have free alcohol and I filled my boots.

So, instead of last nights photos, please accept some photos I have hanging about my hard drive, posted here without context or explaination.

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I will be more organised tomorrow... I have to pay for my own drinks tonight. 

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