365 Photographers

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I've been hosting a 365 linky for nearly two years now and have been privileged in that time to be a witness to many different photographers' daily lives; to see couples marry, pregnancies develop, babies be born, learn to walk and talk, families grow and spread their wings. I've travelled the world without leaving my living room, and rediscovered some of the most amazing architecture Britain has to offer.

At the end of last year's project I didn't think there would be anyone foolish eager enough to carry on the project, but there are well over fifteen photographers who ventured into a second year and it is a pleasure to see their interest in photography develop. The 365 project becomes a part of everyday life for participants, picking up a camera and snapping a scene (hopefully unobtrusively) is second nature, assessing the composition and lighting, picking the best angle, and editing the image to get the best out of it, are all skills which come with time and practise. The 365 (and Project 52) photographers' dedication is something to be admired and sung about in my eyes.

And so I finally get to my point.

Months ago I sounded out a few of the 365 photographers about being featured in a series, they jumped at the chance and since then we've been sifting through finding our favourite photos to share.

The 365 Photographers series will run on Thursdays, starting this week with a photographer who has an incredibly artistic, architectural eye and manages to find the beauty in London that is often missed in the madding crowd.

Pop back over on Thursday to see the wonderful world of HPMcQ.

HPMcQ

365 #39

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The 365 linky only works because of people linking to it and then contributing their thoughts to others' posts via comments. I can't emphasise this enough, it's the whole point of the linky!

Join in by entering the URL of your favourite photograph of the week (either a 52 or a 365 photo) and show some comment love to everyone else in the community. We've got a Facebook group, and now I've created a collaborative Pinterest board (if you'd like to collaborate, let me know and I'll add you).

  1. Choose your favourite photo from the past week and link it up below.
  2. Please add the badge to your linked-up post so that other people know how to find all the other fabulous entries.
  3. If you can spare five minutes to comment on a few other entries I know they'd appreciate it!
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Days 265 – 271 of Project 365

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265-271 of 365

265. Country Kids (We revisited Cefn Onn Park with my brother and his family. My niece and sister-in-law had never been there before and were amazed by it. The children have such great fun together, as soon as we arrived they headed up a tree, closely followed by walking up the stream. They get on so well together, it's really heart-warming to see the next generation together.)

266. Conkers (This week I've been making the effort to set up a play opportunity for The Boy after school, he enjoyed last week's invitation to play so much, and it gave us that quality time together.)

267. Tiddlywinks (On Saturday The Boy begged me to buy some tiddlywinks, we trawled the toy shops to no avail and so I had to order them from Amazon. He was over the moon when they arrived today and he could play them.)

268. Squidgy (He absolutely loved sorting out these pom-poms using the tray and large tweezers. Better still was squeaking them in his ear!)

269. Up (Another invitation to play for The Boy, I was taking an overhead shot and meant to get it of the table but accidentally snapped my son instead. Rather glad I did now!)

270. Swing (The only photo this week taken on my phone, more importantly the only one not taken on manual! We had to battle spiders' webs to get to the garden, I hate this time of year for that!)

271. Bare (We went into Cardiff today to buy some Autumn/Winter boots for The Boy, and called into the Cardiff Country Fayre afterwards. I'd debated trying to get some press tickets earlier in the week for it, but decided in the end that I didn't have time for a blog-post so we paid. I'm rather pleased we came to that conclusion as I'd struggle with a post on an event which isn't really our type of thing. The Boy enjoyed climbing on the tractors and seeing the animals, but we ended up spending 45 minutes looking for conkers instead!)

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TheBoyandMe's 365 Linky

365 #38

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The 365 linky only works because of people linking to it and then contributing their thoughts to others' posts via comments. I can't emphasise this enough, it's the whole point of the linky!

Join in by entering the URL of your favourite photograph of the week (either a 52 or a 365 photo) and show some comment love to everyone else in the community. We've got a Facebook group, and now I've created a collaborative Pinterest board (if you'd like to collaborate, let me know and I'll add you).

  1. Choose your favourite photo from the past week and link it up below.
  2. Please add the badge to your linked-up post so that other people know how to find all the other fabulous entries.
  3. If you can spare five minutes to comment on a few other entries I know they'd appreciate it!
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Days 258 – 264 of Project 365

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258-264 of 365

258. Water (The Boy has only just started being able to cope with water on his face in the bath or shower, today he asked if he could lay back in it and found it hilarious. I just hope this isn't the start of his constant ear infections and glue ear in Winter!)

259. Pennies (The Boy asked if he could count money when he came in from school, so we got down the large Whisky jar and he sorted 1p, 2p and 5p coins into piles before counting the pennies into piles of ten.)

260. Mirror (I set up an invitation to play for The Boy when he came home from school, which he found really therapeutic. The mirror on the table gave a wonderful light for playing in, really illuminating his face. He only once noticed himself in it, and the delight on his face was brilliant.)

261. Sparko (It's Wednesday. That means a sleeping Boy photo. I can never have enough of these so it's ok by me!)

262. Splash (An after-school trip to the local nature reserve to feed the swans, and splash in puddles in new wellies. Only the wellies were too big and then soon fell off when The Boy tried kicking water from the puddle!)

263. A Drop In The Ocean (Rather than go to the MADs in London, I chose to stay at home with my family, for various reasons. I didn't want to sit at home and while away the evening on twitter, so we went for a chippy dinner down the beach before nan babysat The Boy, and I went out to the cinema with my husband. This photo of my thoughtful little boy was taken on the steps down to the beach with the rapidly rising tide approaching. The awards are just one night and a minor moment, when compared with the rest of our lives and The Boy's happiness.)

264. Bare (I've felt groggy all day, like the morning after but without the night before. I didn't sleep well because I was beating myself having not won the MADs again, which I now realise is completely ridiculous; it's just a lump of glass! However, after hanging around all morning for a new class-mate's birthday party, we then went to practise bike-riding in the park. As we cycled around, we found an enormous horse chestnut tree ladened with conkers, which were dropping from it rapidly. When I say the conkers were dropping, I don't mean the cases with conkers in; I actually mean the conkers. There was a squirrel sat at the top, having a feast in the canopy as he ripped open the cases and threw them down, stripped the conkers and dropped the remnants too. Luckily The Boy still had his cycle helmet on as he had a few drop on his head!)

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TheBoyandMe's 365 Linky

365 #37

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Autumn has definitely arrived!

The 365 linky only works because of people linking to it and then contributing their thoughts to others' posts via comments. I can't emphasise this enough, it's the whole point of the linky!

Join in by entering the URL of your favourite photograph of the week (either a 52 or a 365 photo) and show some comment love to everyone else in the community. We've got a Facebook group, and now I've created a collaborative Pinterest board (if you'd like to collaborate, let me know and I'll add you).

  1. Choose your favourite photo from the past week and link it up below.
  2. Please add the badge to your linked-up post so that other people know how to find all the other fabulous entries.
  3. If you can spare five minutes to comment on a few other entries I know they'd appreciate it!
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Days 251-257 of Project 365

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251-257 of 365

251. Reach (A game of frisbee always causes much hilarity and shrieks of laughter. The lawn at Dyffryn Gardens is also a wonderfully sunny place to play it on a lazy Sunday afternoon.)

252. Catch (Trip to the nature reserve after school in order to feed the swans. I took better photos of The Boy feeding the swans, but I love his stance on this one.)

253. Trumpet (He's desperate to learn how to blow a blade of grass like a trumpet, so is Mr. TBaM. In The Boy's case I don't think he has the physical development in his thumbs yet, there's no gap between his joints, so it'll be a few years yet.)

254. Exhaustion (He is so tired every evening, he zonks out at 7.30 and wakes at around 7-7.30 the next morning.)

255. Rise (We got the bread machine out as I'd forgotten to buy bread in the shop. The irony is that we had no milk powder and the flour was heavily out of date, so my husband had to go and buy some from the shop! The Boy put everything into the machine and was fascinated to see it mixing and rising. He went to bed and half an hour later, the machine tripped the electrics twice in two minutes, as well as smelling of burning. Guess who had to go to the shop to buy a tin loaf of bread to make it look like it had worked for The Boy?)

256. Treasure (It poured down for most of the day, so once The Boy has recovered from school we went sploshing with wellies and looking for conkers. They don't look remotely ready to drop, which I'm sure is later than last year? I managed to knock a couple down from a tree but they were still white. We found one conker shell on the ground which had started to open and The Boy was ecstatic to see his first conker of 2013.)

257. Sorting (We've had a very quiet day today, settling into the new routine of doing very little on a Saturday to give The Boy time to recover from his week. He asked to play with the waterbeads and then decided to do some colour sorting with teaspoons once they'd swollen. )

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TheBoyandMe's 365 Linky

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365 #36

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How was your child's first week back? Have the school shoes lasted?

The 365 linky only works because of people linking to it and then contributing their thoughts to others' posts via comments. I can't emphasise this enough, it's the whole point of the linky!

Join in by entering the URL of your favourite photograph of the week (either a 52 or a 365 photo) and show some comment love to everyone else in the community. We've got a Facebook group, and now I've created a collaborative Pinterest board (if you'd like to collaborate, let me know and I'll add you).

  1. Choose your favourite photo from the past week and link it up below.
  2. Please add the badge to your linked-up post so that other people know how to find all the other fabulous entries.
  3. If you can spare five minutes to comment on a few other entries I know they'd appreciate it!
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Days 244-250 of Project 365

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244-250 of 365

244. Eruption (Following our science exploration activity the previous week, The Boy perfectly replicated how to make a volcano independently. We're now out of vinegar as he did it quite a few times. The blue lava wasn't quite as effective!)

245. Flinger (After I finished my first day back at work, I took The Boy down to one of the local beaches for some plopping good fun, our last bit of freedom before school started the next day.)

246. First Day (I know I've used this elsewhere, but what else could I have for today; his first day of school.)

247. Rainbow House (He came home with this painting that he'd done the previous day in school after listening to the story of Winnie the Witch who painted her house different colours.)

248. Xylophone (Another painting, I suspect there may be a few of these. I was incredibly impressed when he told me it was a xylophone; he's even got the keys different lengths and the pegs to hold them on!)

249. Swing (An exhausted little boy after his first week in school, he could barely manage to swing himself. Two minutes later, just as I'd taken my camera in out the way, he fell off backwards and nearly winded himself. Cuddles and Peppa Pig soon solved the problem though.)

250. Mix (Whipping up a birthday cake for Grandad who came over for a birthday tea. )

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TheBoyandMe's 365 Linky

365 #35

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And that was the end of that. Another wonderful Summer holiday draws to a close, and the next half-term begins!

The 365 linky only works because of people linking to it and then contributing their thoughts to others' posts via comments. I can't emphasise this enough, it's the whole point of the linky!

Join in by entering the URL of your favourite photograph of the week (either a 52 or a 365 photo) and show some comment love to everyone else in the community. We've got a Facebook group, and now I've created a collaborative Pinterest board (if you'd like to collaborate, let me know and I'll add you).

  1. Choose your favourite photo from the past week and link it up below.
  2. Please add the badge to your linked-up post so that other people know how to find all the other fabulous entries.
  3. If you can spare five minutes to comment on a few other entries I know they'd appreciate it!
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