Daily Walk

This is not my first "daily" walk;  nor is the walk daily.  I've just set it as my target.  I tend to walk up to the Quay, or the sea wall (perhaps it's more of a river bank!)

I took this photo a few days previously. These two birds were hard to identify.  Eventually, we decided on winter plumage great crested grebes.  Typical of a photo I might take.    

Today there weren't many birds around and the weather was cold, windy and threatening.  I thought this picture captured the mood:  

So then I went home.

 

A year of Project 365

So I’ve just finished my first 365 challenge - that is, post (and hopefully take) at lest one picture a day for a year.  Mine can be seen at https://365project.org/redbiro/   It started with a picture of the Quay and number 365 is a picture of the Quay from a different angle.  I’ve signed up for another year and I hope I enjoy the next year just as much.

Here is today’s picture  

To me it is, on the face of it, a pretty mundane picture.  I kind of know the scene intimately having taken photographs of various views, boats, flowers and close-ups of moss and small weeds.  I have learned an awful lot about my surroundings and quite a bit of photography technique and composition.  

So here’s to another year!

That First Post...

I live in Boston, Lincolnshire (That is the UK Boston) which is an expanding town in the south west corner of The Wash.  It is on what is effectively a river estuary (by a stretch of the imagination) and has a port and a separate, accessible quayside which supports a decent fishing fleet.  

I have issues of walking any distance and since I have started using a Veloped I am a regular visitor to the Quayside and the surrounding areas.  Many of my pictures are of the Quay, the boats and the birdlife surrounding it. 

I have been developing my hobby of photography.  Having joined a group where I commit to posting (and taking!) one picture a day, I have been taking so many it is becoming difficult to decide which one to post and then what to do with the remaining pictures of the day.  So the raison d’être of this blog is to post some of these pictures and include some details, perhaps memories about them.  This may seem trivial to anyone reading this but I do want to develop my hobby and I also want to remember the shots I took.  I’m not getting any younger.

But it’s not all grand pictures of boats and birdlife.  This hobby has opened my eyes to a world around me which for much of my life has gone unnoticed. Some examples: A coil of rope; the micro-architecture of an old building; some rusting, discarded machinery; plants growing in cracks in the pavement.  I could go on, but these are pictures that are sometimes challenging to capture and while they have great meaning for me would be trivial for somebody else.  It is these pictures that I hope to store in this blog.

So anyone who is interested can look here.  Comment if you want to, but the memories and pictures are for me on a personal level and I’m not aiming to exhibit them or to please anyone in particular!