Showing posts with label grunge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grunge. 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.


Tuesday, 29 October 2013

365 Project: Photo 302

It's pretty much Halloween, that most awful of made up nonsense 'holidays', and so it's time to get the pumpkins out. This was my best effort, which wasn't great, but did the job. As you can probably tell I have darkened this somewhat and grunged it up.


Monday, 14 October 2013

365 Project: Photo 287

I took this on my phone at about 4am whilst walking down to Angel from Highbury after a good night out with friends. I fear I may have overdone the grunge effect but my judgement was somewhat rum-impaired.


Monday, 23 September 2013

Thursday, 13 June 2013

365 Project: Photo 164

Another grungey picture from Parliament Square. This is the north side of the nave of Westminster Abbey. The theme today was Sand and I reckon there might be some sandstone in there somewhere....


Tuesday, 11 June 2013

365 Project: Photo 162

My grunge-ification of Parliament Square continues apace. The theme today was Two and I have decided that the symmetry here clearly fulfils that criteria. Probably. Maybe.

In any case, this is the north entrance to Westminster Abbey.


Monday, 27 May 2013

365 Project: Photo 147

Another trip to Westminster and this time I was determined to nail a composition I hadn't quite got right previously. I think, on my phone, this is the best I'm going to get; there's still a lamp post in there that really bugs me, one day I'll go back with my proper camera and edit out in post production. For now, though, this will do. It would appear I'm still a little obsessed with grunging up my photos but in this instance I can at least argue that it helps hide the unsightly street lamp. In any case, I'm quite happy with how this one turned out. 


Saturday, 11 May 2013

365 Project: Photo 131

Another one of Westminster Abbey. I think by the end of this year I will have covered every square inch of Parliament Square.