#thealphabetproject

so this is the first of my photography challenges. This is my personal project but anyone else is welcome to join in. I was inspired by seeing an american portrait photographer do this. The idea is to take pictures of each of the letters of the alphabet. Easy you say? a quick walk down a high street and you have them all. Mais, non.

This has to be things that are not letters. You have to try and find the letters in shapes, figures, shadows…whatever. Im trying to not do the ‘get a person to hold two sticks and you have a k’ thing too. But hey…im not big on rules so if you want to go with it, get on board.

Im going to do this with my iphone and through instagram. Im @apartyofseven on instgram. Come follow me and join in if you like. It will be with the hashtage #alphabetproject. Im going to post them as i find them but then stick them in a mosiac all together. I will use a photoshop template for this which you can have if you would like to do the same. Just leave me a comment. Of course you don’t have to use an iphone or instagram but if you are joining in please do let me know….somehow.  I think ill probably do an alphabet review post once a week…have no idea really how long it will take.

So..thats my project. If you want to join in. cool. if not. cool.

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So here is my first….the letter ‘e’

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Inspired…..

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When you spend time following pro photographers and checking out their stuff, like me, you would think I would get inspired right? Well not all the time, sometimes..but a LOT of the time i get totally intimidated by their knowledge, equipment and general ‘out of reachedness’ feeling that it leaves me with. These guys have spent years and years and years learning their craft and its right in a way that their stuff should be WAY out there.

But this past weekend i watched a series of seminars that really did leave me inspired. Inspired to do something for me. (and eventually others but thats a bit more in the planning stages)

But back to me.  Just me. I have taken part in loads of photography meme’s and i really do love them and have no plan to stop taking part but when i had this idea i thought…’ooh i could do a meme’ and then immediately i thought…’ah but who would join in?, would anyone join in? would i be the billy no mates of the meme world?’

and then this amazing, clear, incredibly simple idea came to me.

“who cares?”

and I realised that what i want to get out of doing this project is something for me..actually,  not to get more readers, more followers or better stats. So that is what i am going to and i will share it here, or on my soon to be new blog once i can stop banging wordpress on the wall *itwillworkitwillwork!*

I am NOT knocking the photography link ups AT ALL. Since i have done them, I have come across some blogs that i just love and im proud to call some new folks my online friends. Which is why i will continue with it. But it can draw you away from why you actually write what you do…..*must join in, more readers, more followers, better stats*…etc…

So im exicted. This is my ‘project’ and anyone who wants to copy the idea and do it to..thats cool. Jump on this ‘ole bandwagon. There is no pressure (for me or you) and there just maybe a cold beer and some cheese and onion crisps.

and in a ‘West Wing’ stylie:

to be continued…………

 

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#silentsunday 13/05

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its that time of the week. Saturday Caption..

hough it might be a bit tumbleweed round here tomorrow as there are truck loads of bloggers at Cybher 2012. Lucky them 🙂

here is mine for this week: you know what to do:)

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down at the beach

it was w-hin-die. We wondered if any rubbish on the beach would have actually been blown away! But we did a little litter picking, learnt some cools stuff on marine conservation. Had a press photographer spotting a camera savvy toddler in my little girl and spent about 10 minutes posing for him and got fed by the nice folks at Marks and Spencer. A good day.

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hmm..can you maybe tell how windy it was?

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a pretty confused little pupply….’what is this place you have bought me too’ He didnt stay bothered by it though especially when he discovered a discarded M&S sausage. First ever taste of sausage…hmmmmmm mmmmm

this is some of the food that didn’t end up on the floor..though, of course, as is the law with all visits to the beach, regardless of how careful you are there is always going to be a mouthful of sand somewhere in your food.

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This guy is from the Daily Mail and he asked us to pose putting some rubbish in a bin.Then i think he got the idea that M was pretty good at the ‘look at the camera, look happy, put things in a bin’ and we ended up doing about 10 minutes worth of the same thing.  Good to know even the pros take lots of shots.

 

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