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[Past Posts: Photo-a-Day 2008; Week 1; Week 2]

This past week I have been struggling a bit for inspiration. On 15 July I had a go at another reversed-lens macro shot, which allowed me to get the following shot of my monitor, showing individual pixels. The front lens (I was using two, with the frontmost one being held reversed ahead of the main one attached to the camera) was just a few millimetres from the screen, and what you see below has not been cropped. Larger versions come with a health warning: may cause fuzziness.

Following this I tried an arty arrangement of my iPod Shuffle:

July 17th and 18th both saw me play with light; first shining from the front onto my watch, and then from behind through some beer bottles. Of the two, I am happier with the Light Beer shot (complete with snappy name) - especially given that I’d forgotten to change the date on my watch since the beginning of the month, something that could be a bit of a give-away in a date-specific project like this!

Read on for days 19-21, including my first go at a self-portrait…

I got outside on 19 July… for all of five minutes. Still, I rather like the result. Someone commented that it looks like the watering can and the hand fork are having a conversation

And now the self-portrait. This was actually my first exposure of the day (of a total of eight I think); it was the one that I found worked best. I initially converted it to full monochrome, but I think that this not-quite-fully desaturated look is actually pretty effective.

I rounded off the third week yesterday with a nod to my recent studies. A book of International Financial Reporting Standards (with some two-and-a-half thousand pages) makes for very interesting reading…