Day 13 - Album cover

Sadly, I couldn't get my hands on any of my old albums, as they're tucked away so deep in the basement it would have taken a removal truck to empty the crap in front of them and access them. Having said that, I'm not sure I would have had any albums with a headshot on them, as my old LPs had a lot of psychedelic art on them (Pink Floyd), group shots (Supertramp), conceptual stuff (Alan Parsons Project)...

So I turned to my trusted bookcase, and it delivered, in the shape of Eddie Izzard's biography. So here I am, posing as a man, who dresses like a woman. Great book by the way, I highly recommend it!

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Day 12 : Shadow story

I take my bicycle to go to work every day. It's good for my mental health... I have some of my best ideas while riding. It also lets me work out all of my frustrations and arrive home calm.

I cycle over the motorway, then along the airport and by the runway. So the idea stemmed.... My shadow in comparison with other modes of transport. It was tougher to do than I had imagined, because of the angle I had to hold the camera at, so not perfect, but here's my result.

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Days 10, 11 : will be taken soon

Day 9 : Upside down

This was a challenge for me, as I'm not the most flexible of people!! I ended up half hanging off the edge of my bed. Here are a couple of the attempts hahaha. I look like a constipated hippo on the middle one... I was going for mean and scary.

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Day 8 - Motion blur

I remember shaking my side repeatedly from side to side as a kid to get a kick out of feeling dizzy. Decided to replicate this as an adult and take pictures.... Probably not such a good idea as I ended up feeling queasy for a couple hours after the photo shoot!! Ah, the joys of getting older...

I'm quite pleased with the result. I used Canva to do a photo montage with my 3 favourites.

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Day 7 - Zoom out

This was tough to do alone. I would have preferred a different setting, like the lakeside, but I wouldn't have trusted leaving my camera at one end of the pier while I was away at the other. I'll probably try and get this set up at some point, by bringing a friend or family member with me and having them stand guard by the camera.

My camera has this handy feature where it connects to my smartphone, and I can then use the smartphone as a remote for shooting. This is what I did here. Set the camera up on my windowsill, then went down to the park below me and remotely activated the camera.

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Day 6 - the Hockney

Spent a while lying by the pool shooting myself under all angles, then chopped myself up and here's the result. My daughter cringed when she saw it, and her boyfriend was very diplomatic and told me it was "special"

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Day 5 - the book

Find the book you like : check
Open and point at a word : check
Find an idea for a composition : check
Write word on arm : major fail. Not sure if it's because of the heat or because my pens do not WANT to write on skin.... but I ended up having to write the word on tape which I then stuck to my arm.

Final result : I don't like the lighting of my shot, the focus is not entirely where I'd have wanted it. Turns out I'll probably redo this assignment at a later date (I have a few ideas and a week's holiday coming up !!)

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Day 4 - The mirror - part 1

Soooooo today's assignment was to turn your back on a mirror and take a picture. Who'd have thought it would be that mind boggling?

Step 1 : place the mirror
Step 2 : check that what you see in the mirror is what you want as a background
Step 3 : move the mirror when you realise that what you see is NOT what you want
Step 4 : see step 2 - repeat
Step 275 : take picture
Step 276 : check the picture on the control screen of the camera
Step 277 : AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH

You get the idea LOL

So finally, after many trials and errors, here's the final pic I selected!

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Day 3 - Peekaboo

We're experiencing quite the heatwave at the moment here in Switzerland. So I spend a lot of time fanning myself with this beautiful hand fan which I purchased last year on a trip to Martinique. It was fun trying out different angles to peek from, and finally selecting and editing the final shot.

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Day 2 - An object

Tea is a definite part of my life. I love it hot, cold, with milk, without milk. In our family, we call it the "magic potion" and will systematically be offered to people to magic away any pain (physical of pain of the soul). This is one of my favourite tea mugs, purchased in Glasgow 35 years ago. It has followed me through many life changes, and even though it has a small chip in it, it remains one of my favourite mugs to drink from.

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Day 1 - Body part

Just started the class today, 3.8.18.

I often photograph my feet in the pool at my mum's house, where I love to have my morning coffee. Not on holiday there right now, but replicated the pose I normally take :)

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The assignment was to take 2 pictures of the same body part. So my second one is a "from where I stand" viewpoint. (also made me realise just how much dog hair is flying around my place... oops)

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