I thought I should start to post up some of the best shots from ‘My Year One’ of photography. This photo was taken one evening as part of a work photography club, this shot won me an evening photo course, and made it as far as the Short List for the 2009 Photographer of the Year. It is far from my favourite photo I have taken but is certainly my most successful.
This is another early photo that i took, shortly after my photography lesson. I like this shot because i think the combination of the colours of the graffiti against the black and white of the signs on the wall works well.
This is another photo from my recent trip to Naples Florida. This photo is of the Old Naples Pier from the beach, the photo itself was quite drab, but with some post processing i was quite pleased with the result. I hadn’t realised at the time that i was ever so slightly off centre, but i actually quite like the imbalance in the shot, i think it gives it a little more interest???
This shot of Tower Bridge was one of the first photo’s i took after getting my photography lesson for my 32nd birthday. I had been walking up the Thames all afternoon trying to capture something interesting, and already had a number of very poor shots of Tower Bridge. I found a nice spot to stand just in front of the Tower of London, and setup my old Canon G10 on a tripod on the Thames wall. This was one of my first, and very few HDR shots, but i really liked the way this one came out.
This photo was taken on a roadside rest stop about half way between Miami and Naples Florid on Highway i75. Initially i was drawn to the lines and arrows on the road, and trying to capture the road signs in the distance. It was not until after i had got back and reviewed the shot properly that i saw the tire tracks on the left hand side, which are now my favourite part of the shot.
This is part of the reason i am keen to complete the Project 365 (and beyond) as i feel that all to often at the moment when a photo is working out right, it is more luck than judgement!