The plan was to use this tonight to get all my ironing done, the plan failed!

I tried a time-lapse project this evening. It didn’t work out as I planned so I just used a shot from the sequence. It’s nothing special but it sums up the day!

Today I went to Chatsworth house, It was part of a weekend spent with the parents. The gardens were amazing, and I spent a lot of time photographing them. This was one of my favourite shots.

I hope you like it!

Tonight my parents are up in Sheffield and we went out to dinner for a belated Birthday celebration! I picked to go to Christain’s. The food was phenomenal, the service was impeccable and the price was decent! I would highly recommend anyone go there!

This is a shot I have wanted to do since I started my 365, but until I got an flash I could use off camera I was unable to get the effect. However having got one of those for my birthday I put it to good use. I bought some Joss Sticks and setup the shot to how I thought it would need to be setup to get a good shot. I had some black cloth and placed the Joss stick at the bottom of the cloth so the smoke could rise. However I was getting reflections from the cloth in the shot that was drowning out the smoke. So I removed the cloth and then with the camera on F29 and the shutter speed at 1000/s I started taking shots. WIth no cloth there all I had was a white wall behind and that made it very hard to see the smoke. About 130 shot’s later I had this one. I got some others but this was the best of the lot. I did very little to this barring upping the highlights a wee bit in lightroom. I did then do some Post processing to see what effects I could do with the shot. This was the result.

The weather today has been rather erratic and weird. I left for work in the blistering sunshine at 7am and then at about midday we got a 5 minute, yes 5 minute, thunderstorm. There was deluge of water and lightning etc and it swamped the drains on the building opposite my work, so I thought I would take a shot!

Today is my Birthday and my awesome house mates bought me a cake. I also got a new speed light and some FM wireless flash triggers to go with it and so I thought I would put them both to good use!

Following on from yesterday’s candid office shot, I thought I would take another one, this is Matt, he think’s he’s a handsome chap haha!

This is Rachel, she has been featured before in this 365. She is a Nikon shooter just like me, and today we had a crazy moment in the office where we both just got our cameras and started firing off some exposures!! Random but fun, this was one of the shot’s I got!

My birthday is in a few days and I am lucky enough to have a Kindle 3 on order from my parents, so as anyone does I explored the Kindle book store, I even downloaded the Kindle PC application. Anyway I spotted the Stieg Larsson trilogy on the site for £2.68 a book. I already had the first book but had only read chapter one, so I bought the other 2 for the Kindle and have picked up reading this one.. it’s a good book!