19.02.13 - Frosty Foggy Fishponds Just when we thought Spring was in the air we woke to freezing fog! By the time I got organised to go out with the camera I thought the frost would have gone, but there was still some down by the river and fishponds. It always amazes me how the temperature varies between town and country, even over the space of a few yards. Literally the other side of the ponds, in the background here, there was no frost. The fog cleared by lunchtime, leaving us with a glorious cloudless sunny day. Thanks for the comments on my sculpture shot yesterday, for those that are interested there is a small gallery here showing different angles and perspectives; http://johnloguk.smugmug.com/Art/TEMPLE-GARDENS-SCULPTURES/28087435_RcCCMk#!i=2373022841&k=ZLwmz9q

Into my sixth year of taking and posting a photo every day. I will endeavor to use a photo taken that actual day, or at least one that was processed that day, but occasionally I will post something from the archives if I think it is appropriate (or necessary). I will also try to post interesting images, but life isn't always interesting so some will be a bit more mundane :)

I live in the beautiful old historical city of Lincoln in the East of England. It always features heavily in my images. If you're ever over this way be sure to let me know and I'll give you a free guided tour :)

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26.02.13 - Night Lights

I'd just been to watch the film "Cloud Atlas", it was breathtaking by the way, and decided to take a few shots of the lights around town before I headed home. The cinema is the blue neon left of centre. It was another miserable day of low grey cloud, and the golden glow in the sky is that cloud lit by the cathedral floodlights. In the summer this area will be a hive of activity, but in February it is still too cold to sit outside on those benches :)

25.02.13 - Dog at the Door!

Yesterday was a bad day, nothing went right, everything and anything that could go wrong did go wrong. The things I expected to go right managed to find some way of going wrong too. Enquiries about work turned into dead ends, and I seemed to keep having to deal with people who have have humour and/or intelligence bypass operations! Oh and the bug that I thought I'd shaken off last week, but which was really just hiding and waiting for the right moment to re-appear, did so with a vengeance. I think it is people that I find most disappointing though. I know some wonderful ones, but unfortunately I keep having to deal with some really ignorant nasty bigoted ones at the moment. Their whole world view is so nasty, full of scapegoats to blame, and their only way of dealing with it seems to be to treat everyone with suspicion, hatred and fear. Sorry to rant like this on my Daily, but that was my day.

I almost didn't take a photo all day, but last night Mr Willis made the perfect subject waiting patiently at the door to be let back in from the garden. This is how I feel a lot of the time these days, waiting patiently on the outside, wondering what on earth is going on :)

24.02.13 - The Tree

Just a stark winter tree against some high clouds in the sunset. Still weeks before we see leaves on the trees.

23.02.13 - Ripper Street?

One of my favourite TV shows at the moment is BBC's "Ripper Street", a wonderful representation of the East End of London in the aftermath of the Jack the Ripper murders. It has multiple layers of atmosphere, complex overlapping storylines, a constant struggle between light and dark. Those also happen to be some of the many things I love about photography.

There are technically perfect images, and they should be admired in their own way, but personally I prefer photographs that are multilayered, evoking emotions, taking the viewer on a voyage of discovery, that make you think, and that suggest different things every time you see them. I've shot this view many times before, but every time I see something different. It can be warm and friendly, with a cosy "olde worlde" feel. But with the right lighting, and judicious use of filters, it can evoke quite different emotions :)

I have the twins today so might not be able to comment much at all, except maybe very late this evening

22.02.13 - Cross Fertilisation............

A 2,000 year old Roman arch, next to a late 20th century Cantonese restaurant, a symbol of modern Britain. The metaphor is sealed by the merging traffic light streams. Well that is one way of looking at this :)

In an ideal world I'd have liked some ghostly people heading towards the small arch on the right to give more balance to the image, but that is just an excuse for going back :)

There is an interesting fun experiment in the right hand tunnel here;
http://johnloguk.smugmug.com/Photography/ALTERNATIVE-DAILY-POST/15316442_m3F5HV#!i=2378196573&k=N3crBS2

21.02.13 - Ellis Mill

This is from last night's guided photo walk. I've not photographed this old windmill for a while, so I was pleasantly surprised to find the sails pointed towards us when we got there. You have to photograph if from outside the fence, and can only see it from one side at night, but the rare East wind meant that it was facing us for a change. I love old windmills, and Lincoln used to have nine of them along the ridge, but this is the only one remaining now. It is run by volunteers, and still produces flour when the conditions are right. Oh and that east wind was bitterly cold!

More info here;
http://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/visiting/windmills/ellis-windmill/

20.02.13 - Lost?

Another shot from Tuesday morning in the freezing fog. Thanks for the wonderful comments on yesterday's foggy shot by the fishponds, which was a couple of hundred yards away from this shot of the river.

18.02.13 - Mother and Child

I can't find any information about this sculpture in Temple Gardens, but I know that I love it. I love most forms of public art, the world is a much better place for it, and by taking photos I hope to share it as wide as possible.

19.02.13 - Frosty Foggy Fishponds

Just when we thought Spring was in the air we woke to freezing fog! By the time I got organised to go out with the camera I thought the frost would have gone, but there was still some down by the river and fishponds. It always amazes me how the temperature varies between town and country, even over the space of a few yards. Literally the other side of the ponds, in the background here, there was no frost. The fog cleared by lunchtime, leaving us with a glorious cloudless sunny day.

Thanks for the comments on my sculpture shot yesterday, for those that are interested there is a small gallery here showing different angles and perspectives;

http://johnloguk.smugmug.com/Art/TEMPLE-GARDENS-SCULPTURES/28087435_RcCCMk#!i=2373022841&k=ZLwmz9q