4/52: Orion decided to stand on the tree

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3/52: Moonlit Road

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2/52 - Flames Triptych

Hot... Hotter... Hothothotttt!!!
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1/52: Snow

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2010

I'm planning to do something a little less intensive this year, a photo a week instead of one every day.

I've also been working quite hard on a new project, an automatic weather station. I've wanted one for years, and I finally got one late in December.
The station itself was very simple to set up, but I wanted to make it a bit more than just a simple station, displaying current data on it's LCD, so I've built a webserver so I can put the data online - mainly for my own entertainment, but if you're interested, you can see the live data from it here: http://ben-s.blogdns.org/wx

Expect to see the first instalment of my 52 weeks project soon.

31-12-09: Blue Moon / Mission Complete!

Thus concludes a year in photos!
When I started this, I really didn't think I'd make it, but I have.
I'm proud of that.

This was a really special moment; the clouds had banked up in the minutes before midnight and almost completely obscured the moon.
Almost on the stroke of midnight, the clouds cleared and the brilliant light of the full moon flooded the scene.
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30-12-09: Make A Wish

The orange trail is one of those little candle-powered hot air balloons. Someone set several of them off in fairly quick succession.
It's surprisingly moving to see them silently float off into the night.

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