Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts

Sunday, 5 January 2014

Review of 2013....

Soooooooo, it has been rather a long time since my last post. This has been due to a number of reasons, partly laziness, partly lack of inspiration and frustration with the 365 Project, and partly because I have been in Romania for the last 3 weeks and internet connections there were few and far between. I will finish off the 365 Project, I have a bunch of photos on the back burner that I need to process and get written up and I will try to have that done by the end of the month. For now, I'm going to do one of those lazy Review of the Year posts with some of my favourite pictures from 2013. I won't include any from the period I haven't posted yet, you'll just have to be patient for those.

In 2014 I will be going back to my usual format of a post every fortnight or so. I think this gives me time to get some decent photos together and the words to go with them. I think the daily requirement of the 365 Project ultimately lowered the quality of what I do here, which was one of the reasons I became increasingly disenchanted with it. However, this does not foreshadow the year ahead, I am optimistic and enthusiastic about the blog for 2014. I have had 70,000 hits so far which is orders of magnitude more than I ever expected and so thank you to everyone who takes time out of their day to see what I've been up to. I'll try to raise the bar.

The last 12 months have been the most traumatic and difficult of my life, much of it self-inflicted, but there were certainly some good times too. Thank you to everyone who has stuck with me this far.


Gargoyle from inside the Natural History Museum, January.


View from Westminster Bridge, January.


Chain in Vienna, March.


St. Marco's piazza, Venice, March.


Venice, March. 

 
Parliament Square, London, May.


Pocketwatch, May.


Parliament Square, London, May.


 Dead flower, July.


 Olympic Park, September.


Monday, 25 March 2013

365 Project: Photo 084

Okay, I lied. One more from Venice. I love that you can see the texture in the stucco on this wall, and the colours are very soothing.


Sunday, 24 March 2013

365 Project: Photo 083

A final picture from Venice for today's effort. I'll try to get more on topic over the next week. On many of the bridges in Venice, of which there are many, you will find padlocks with the names of lovers written on them. I've given this picture of some of them the Lomo treatment.


Saturday, 23 March 2013

365 Project: Photo 082

Ignoring the prompt again, but this is the Piazza San Marco as seen from the loggia of the basilica. I've given it a little tilt shift effect; I've always loved the miniaturising effect it gives.


Friday, 22 March 2013

365 Project: Photo 081

I'm totally ignoring the prompt today as I am in Venice and just using whatever I like. This is the view looking north from the Rialto Bridge in the centre of the lagoon.