2010 - Well, that worked...

...Or not...

2010 wasn't a particularly brilliant year for me, creatively or generally.
It started off with a lot of changes and hassle at work, being moved from my office, studio and control room, into a basement in the IT building.
At the time I half-jokingly said to my colleagues "give it 6 months, and we'll be redundant"; life may imitate art, evidently it listens to snarky comments too.
We got our marching orders in late July, and I left in early September.

What with the hassle hanging over me in the early part of the year, and the lack of work since September, I've not been in much of a mood to shoot a lot, so the camera got a bit of a light year. Hopefully 2011 will be better.
I'm going to try and do the 365 again this year, to get me out of the rut.

Being off hasn't been all bad though; as well as trying my hand at winemaking and a few other bits and pieces, it has given me a chance to build a website, something I've been wanting to do for some time. You can see it here if you're interested: http://www.ben-s.co.uk



To 2011!

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.

Introduction

Hi, I'm Ben, a photographer in Nottingham, England.
I'm starting this blog for a 365 project in 2009.

I'm interested in most aspects of photography, and will turn my hand to anything.
Hopefully this blog will reflect this.

I'm happy using nearly any camera, as long as it has a manual mode, and I have used all sorts of cameras from compact digitals to 5x4" large format film cameras.

Most of the work on here will probably be from one of the following cameras:
Canon EOS 30D
Canon EOS 40D (new toy as of 30-12-08)
Canon Powershot G9
Ricoh GR Digital
Canon EOS 1N HS
Mamiya 645

Places I frequent:
Photojojo forum
APUG
Strobist
Flickr
I'm usually to be found under the username ben-s.

Let the photos begin!