Day 349 ‘Fly Away With Me’ – 10/11/10

I was pleased to get an early shot for the day with the seagull taking off over the Thames. I liked the more dramatic look of the shot in black and white, with a bit of vignetting around the image added in the processing.

Day 336 ‘City Life’ – 28/10/10

I added Nik Software’s HDR Efex Pro to the rest of the Nik Complete Collection i picked up for Aperture before i kicked of my 365. This has given me the interest to have a little bit of a play with HDR again after becoming a bit disenfranchised by my early attempts at HDR. So far i’m impressed in how this seems to pull the images together in a much more pleasing way (in my eyes). I’ve been meaning to take this shot for a number of months now, and think this works really well with the HDR processing, bringing out all the details in this little corner of my neighbourhood. In particular i wanted to capture the tower block, and liked the angle capturing it through the local football pitch on the edge of the local park. Was torn between black and white and colour, but thought colour was much more interesting.

Day 270 ‘Highlighters’ – 23/08/10

Perhaps too much, but i deliberately over saturated the green (and splash of yellow) in this shot. I decided that i wanted a splash of colour for todays image and was drawn to the green mossy walls (again), however felt this worked as a selective colour image with the scene in general in black and white!

Day 208 ‘Black Magic’ – 22/06/10

This is a retake of the’Magic Wand’ from day 88, i loved the way this looked with the reflections of the clouds in the sky. So as to add a twist from the original, this time it is in stark black and white, giving a different abstract feel.

Day 136 ‘From Millwall Docks’– 11/04/10

I was torn between black and white, and colour for this shot, so went for my blend of selective colouring again. I think this works nicely to capture this urban city skyline of Canary Wharf from Millwall Docks. I was torn with posting up another photo for today, but it was one i can potentially take any time, so have banked it for an uninspired day down the line.

Day 129 ‘Memories of 1998 from a Disposable Camera’– 04/04/10

There have been a couple of posts recently i have seen that have inspired this photo,  one of Miyajima gate and a one of old memories. These inspired me to dig through some of my old photos, that i took back in 1998 when i spent 3 months in Tokyo. I was quite lonely at the time being miles away from home, and amused myself by spending hours in HMV and also with some black and white disposable cameras. I thought this would make an interesting shot, and i might also post up some of these scanned in, as i think they are lovely shots (at least for me they are).

Above you have shots of Tokyo Tower, The Imperial Place, Tokyo City, Downtown Ginza, Miyajima Gate and the only building left standing from the Hiroshima Bomb.

Day 125 ‘On the Straight and Narrow’– 31/03/10

Another close to straight out the camera shot today, only a minor tweak into black and white from the original on the way into work this morning. Again this is a re-take of a former shot that didn’t quite make the 365, this time though with the added element of the morning commuter.

Day 109 ‘Just Waiting for the Trains to Come’– 15/03/10

Sometimes i need to learn to have the courage of my convictions! I really liked this shot on its own, but needed a positive confirmation on my Flickr stream that perhaps it worked much better on it’s own than as part of a Diptych! So here we are ‘Just Waiting for the Trains to Come” at Liverpool Street Station

Day 59 ‘Black and White’ – 24/01/10

This is a photo of a wall at Embankment London Underground Station, presumably in-between advertising posters. I liked the absolute simplicity of this shot, and decided to keep  the grain on the white section as i think it gives it more character.

Day 58 ‘Bleeding Through’ – 23/01/10

A morning trip to the post office took me past this spot, i liked the way the vent seemed to be bleeding black from the wall of the building. Playing around with the shot at home, and realising Black and White just wasn’t right for this took me into Colour Efex Pro. I found a way of brining down the localised contrast down to give this a slightly blurred and abstract look which i was quite pleased with. There is a small chance of a bonus shot for today as tonight i’m being treated to a meal out for my birthday (just gone by)!