Bonus week!
Took this as I was walking around Stockholm on the same day as I went back home after christmas.
Books, books, books. At Stadsbiblioteket, the Stockholm city public library.
One of the many (many, many..) plane wing photos I've taken in my days. This was on the way over to Sweden for christmas.
Frosty morning on the way home from work.
..or something along those lines.
Noticed I still hadn't posted the last few photos in the Fifty-Two Weeks project from 2014(!). So, here we go. I will be posting the last few photos in the next few posts, and all of the photos will be uploaded to the Fifty-Two Weeks page/album.
Went into Waterstones the other day on my way home from work, and I saw this book which was a journal called One Word A Day. Taking inspiration from that I will be doing a journal of one word a day which as a whole sums up my day, and take a photo which represents that word.
The photos will be on my Instagram, but I will also be adding the photos to a gallery on here in One Word A Day.
So, it appears that I never posted the last few weeks worth of photos in my Fifty-Two Weeks project (although I thought I had).. I will make sure to post them in the next few days whilst I have a few nights off work.
Also, there is a new project in the works inspired by a journal I saw in Waterstones the other day. I need to set up a few things on here, Facebook, and IFTTT; and then I will be ready to run with that. At that point I'll post some more information about it as well :)
A bit of planning over breakfast :) Weetos, and gingerbread latte (in one of my favourite mugs) - nom nom nom :)
Also, I love love love Evernote :) Great app which lets you synchronise notes between devices, making notebooks, and you can add photos and web clippings to your notes. One of the apps I use mostly on a daily basis.
Was doing some planning for my trip to New York. Bought a notebook from Fotografiska to use as a travel journal for my trip. There is also the Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard cover which works as a cover for the screen of the iPad but is also a bluetooth keyboard, and my favourite over ear headphones the Skullcandy Aviators which are super comfy and deliver great sound. Obviously the other items featured in the photo is my iPhone 5S, and also the Rough Guide to New York City.
Obligatory plane wing shot from the flight home from Sweden. Can't beat that view :)
A photo from one of my favourite underground stations in Stockholm. I'll have to get a colour photo some time, because the walls are a nice bright blue.
Went to Sweden at the end of July and beginning of August (for almost 2 weeks) to see my family and have a bit of a holiday. It was roasting most of the time I was there, but one of the weekends there was torrential downpour. However, 2 hours later this was the only sign of any rain on the decking in my parents' back garden.
So I've realised I'm 17(!) weeks behind on posting photos for my Fifty-Two Weeks project. Worked some crazy hours this summer, and with going to Sweden to see my family at the end of July and going to New York at the end of August, the blog post ended up on the back burner a bit (or rather a lot).
To be honest, the weeks just seem to be flying by at the moment, and I can't believe it's getting to mid November already. In five weeks I'll be in Sweden for christmas which seems crazy.
My aim is to post a few photos a day to catch up, and we'll see how that goes.
Bought some of the "summer seconds" films from the Impossible Project. Basically they're film which didn't pass the quality control. Got two bags of three packs of film, and this is the first one I've used of them. For this particular pack the alignment was off (hence the white border along the right hand side).
Walked in to town from work the other week and was testing out my Canon EOS M. This is again with the 40mm lens and the mount adapter.
Having passed the 5 year mark at work in January (still can't believe it's been 5 years already) I got a BonusBond voucher for long service, and I ended up using it towards buying myself the Canon EOS M. It's a compact system camera and you can change the lenses on it as you would on an SLR, but it's considerably smaller. With the camera I also bought a Canon mount adapter which basically allows me to attach any EF mount lens that fits on my Canon 600D DSLR. The below is the Canon EF-M 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM lens that came with the Canon EOS M, and my MacBook Pro in the background. Took it using the Canon EF 40mm lens attached with the mount adapter as one of the first few photos whilst testing the adapter.
Off to London for the day tomorrow :) and will be taking this (the Sigma 10-20mm f/3.5 EX DC HSM lens) with me to see how it does at the top of The Shard.
The fence of the shared garden for my block of flats.
On my way home from work on Wednesday it was actually nice and sunny (after a few weeks of grey and miserable weather), and the flowers in the little communal garden behind my flat have started flowering. Took some photos with my iPhone 5S, and also put the macro lens of my Olloclip 4-in-1 lens to the test.The Olloclip is a 4-in-1 lens which slots onto the iPhone on the corner where the camera is. It's got a wide angle lens, a fisheye lens, and two macro lenses (one 10x and one 15x).
The below is the middle of a flower, and it was taken with the 15x macro lens. It's a bit blurry as it was a bit windy, which is not ideal when it takes so little to make the photo out of focus at that high magnification.
My little stack of photography books :) The top one is the Humans of New York book. Love the concept of what he (Brandon Stanton) does, and bought myself the book as an early christmas present last year. The book has been an inspiration, and has also in part fuelled my dreams of going to New York.There is also the HONY Facebook page, giving you your fix right there as you are wasting time on Facebook ;)