Colourful buildings in Oxford

Always thought it strange how colourful certain areas of central Oxford actually are.

Urban photography; shooting people

Taken 12th March, while wandering around in Oxford during my lunch break.

Water

While walking back home from work along the canal path back into Oxford, I noticed that the sluices were overflowing, gushing water out from the canal. I had to take a few shots. Above is my favorite one because of the colours and texture; the flash froze the water to look like ice.

In the Marketplace

Photos taken in Gloucester Green, Oxford, during lunch while the market is running. For a number of these, I was aiming to get some good technical shots as well as try to capture something interesting. I was definitely starting to have fun learning how to make certain shots happen with the camera's settings :)


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Macro #2

Second macro taken on the first morning, not quite as sharp as I'd like, but I am hand-holding these shots.

First! (by preference)

This is the first shot I tried to take with the camera, first thing the morning after I got it. This was taken in my back garden, macro setting zoomed in to the lenses fullest (55mm) and just as the sun peaked over the garden wall. I don't know if it is a bad thing that the part where the sun reflects most brightly on the leaf is blown out, but I'll just chalk it up to better luck next time.

(What you cannot see, is that I am being beset by neighbourhood cats, who think, possibly quite rightly, that I am a soft touch and would feed them if they pestered me enough.)

Introduction

Last week, I bought myself a shiny, shiny Nikon D60 + lens kit (18-55mm VR) and have been going a little photo crazy.


"Try to take at least one good photo daily"

I'm not entirely sure where that idea came from, but it has that 'interesting idea' ring to it. Hence this blog :)

I'll post on here links to the photos I've taken that I thought were Good Enough(tm) to be seen, starting with a few retrospective ones.

(I may post more than one photo a day, or I might not post anything for a few days; the aim is the attempt to take photos - meaning I have to have my camera with me, I have to be ready to take a good image and I have to be looking for a good shot.)