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Graham Binns posted a photo:

Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 154

It's been a while since we had a boring old self-portrait, so here's a very boring self portrait, taken using the SB-600 and a Lambency diffuser dome / Gary Fong Lightsphere ripoff.

(I'm only posting this because it will serve as my June autoportrait for Whitechapel.)

Graham Binns posted a photo:

Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 27

I decided, after a day when I found myself stuck in the house pretty much all of the time, and in which I saw my capacity for excursion limited significantly by something important in my car going boing, to play with the light available to me.

This was taken outside my front door. The only light source is the light from inside the house, which was filtered through a fairly thin curtain.

I like this shot, though I wish it could have been a bit sharper. That was a result of using such a wide aperture for the shot (1.4 so not a huge amount was in focus) and there not being enough light to make sure that the camera was focussing on what I thought it was focussing on - i.e. my right eye. Still, I think it came out pretty well, all things considered.

I made this monochrome through a yellow-green filter to try and disguise the fact that the sclera of my right eye is bright red as I'm suffering an annoying bout of conjunctivitis. Also, the wind was blowing in my face, which didn't help either my eye or the stability of the tripod.

You might have noticed, as your RSS readers break down or your LiveJournal friends page becomes swamped with my posts, that I've imported a bunch of photos from Flickr into my blog.

This is a project that I'm going to try and carry on throughout the year. I know that a lot of people do "366 portraits" projects and the like, and I fancied trying something similar. Not with self portraits though; I think that you've got to think yourself at least semi-attractive to do that.

So my idea - which a number of other people are doing; I'm not claiming sovereignty on this one - was to take a new photo every day and post it to Flickr. I'd like to make them all arty and fantastic but of course I realise that the likelihood of that happening is on the slim side.

And since I realise that not many people subscribe to my Flickr stream (though feel free, you know), I thought it might be best to integrate it with the blog. Only for the Three Hundred and Sixty-odd Days of 2008 photos for now, though. Just to save you some friends page space when I become a photographic genius.

Some links for you then:

• My Flickr stream
• The Three Hundred and Sixty-odd Days of 2008 set

Enjoy.

It looks like it's that time again, the time when the British weather starts playing silly buggers. For everyone else in the country that means flooding and being washed out of house and home. For me, it seems, it just means losing intertube connectivity, which I'll admit is plain annoying, but at least I don't have to clean a street's worth of sewage off my living room carpet.

So, my connection speed is down to circa 80Kbps again, where earlier today it was closer to 3Mbps. Now comes the whole song and dance of talking to my ISP (whose tech support is fantastic) and then (and this is the bit that takes forever) waiting for BT to rectify the problem, whilst all the time they threaten me with being handed a huge bill should I happen to be wrong about the cause of the problem.

Tomorrow, I shall buy microfilters and run every diagnostic I can think of. Then the fun can begin.