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June 26th, 2011 by Peter Bargh

Photo365 – Day 177 – Clover

I spent a lazy day today sunbathing and it must have not only frazzled my skin but also my brain, because i couldn’t remember whether I’d used a photo of clover in my photo365. I’d certainly spent one session photographing it…but I went for a grass blade instead. So here is today’s photo taken on the lawn from a low viewpoint of a clover flower. Shallow depth of field and back-lighting have helped emphasise the tiny flower. It’s taken with the Pentax K-5 and 100mm macro.

When I was looking through the past photo365 pictures I spotted that I’ve uploaded two photos of McFlurry ice cream. My memory is fading! I’d hoped to photograph something different every day.

June 25th, 2011 by Peter Bargh

Photo365 – Day 176 – Mirrors

I had six bathroom mirror tiles and made a box to create an infinite mirror effect. I tried various techniques to get interesting shots and struggled, but when I’d finished I decided to place four on the floor and shoot the clouds.

This is one of the resulting shots. Taken with the Hipstamatic for my photo365 project

June 24th, 2011 by Peter Bargh

Photo365 – Day 175 – wheat

Wheat growing on a path near the Worskop canal.

I took a variety of shots on my evening walk tonight and had difficulty choosing between a dead floating water rat, surrounded by McDonalds wrappers and containers, a low shot of my shoes with the path behind me or this for my photo365 photo.

I chose this because it’s not shocking or timeless and is seasonal. I can reshoot the shoes on an uninspiring photo day. I’ll keep the rat for another collection.

So back to the wheat. It’s taken from a low angle using the Olympus Pen EP2 with 14-42mm zoom and cropped to square format which suits the balance of the composition better.

Processed in Lightroom

June 23rd, 2011 by Peter Bargh

Photo365 – Day 174 – raindrops

Raindrops on the poppy petals today. I’ll soon have exhausted the poppy patch by which time the petals will have all fallen off. Next I’m looking forward to a shot of the skeleton poppy head. That’s a few weeks away.

June 22nd, 2011 by Peter Bargh

Photo365 – Day 173 – poppy bulb

Continuing my theme of poppy photos while I have them in the garden, this is of the bulb before it explodes into a large and colourful poppy. I included the other stalks in to balance the right side.
It’s part of my photo365 project.

June 21st, 2011 by Peter Bargh

Photo365 – Day 172 – poppy head

A poppy head shot with the iphone hipstamatic

June 20th, 2011 by Peter Bargh

Photo365 – Day 171 – the poppies

This is my small patch of poppies I’ve been photographing in the garden in previous blogs posts. They’re now all coming to flower. I photographed this lot this morning.

I’ve uploaded a shot to my ePHOTOzine gallery showing a low viewpoint of the front two – Summer

June 19th, 2011 by Peter Bargh

Photo365 – Day 170 – reel

I cycled round Clumber Park this afternoon a 30km route, and on the way stopped off at one of my favourite woodland scenes to take this. The reel has been there for about five years and is starting to rot away nicely. It’s surrounded by silver birch and ferns so you can usually get a decent shot. This is with the K5 and 16-45mm hand held.

June 18th, 2011 by Peter Bargh

Photo365 – Day 169 – Helmet

A reproduction divers helmet I’ve been meaning to photograph for ages. I placed the studio light inside and used the modelling light as illumination. Then I added a self portrait behind the glass in Photoshop

The photo is taken with a Pentax k5 and 16-45mm zoom

June 17th, 2011 by Peter Bargh

Photo365 – Day 168 – poppy drops

I’m making the most of the poppy explosion in the garden, and the rain with this shot.
A poppy petal fell off, so I placed it on the garden table and framed up tightly using the 100mm macro on a Pentax K5.