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I have just completed a 365 today and if you had asked me a month, or even a week ago I would have said NEVER again, lol! Over the last week I came to the realisation that I will probably miss doing a photo a day. Despite how time consuming it is, and how much the few months mid-year dragged when I lost my mojo, I have learned a lot, pushed myself to try stuff I wouldn't normally, made some great friends and for the most part, had fun. On top of that, I think my photography improved... at least I hope it did :D

I am not sure how I plan on working my new 365. I was thinking of trying themes to challenge myself. The one thing I do know, is that I want to take a more relaxed approach, not beat myself up if I miss the odd day here or there. I missed 2 days this year at the end of February and nearly gave up. If I feel it is getting too much (I do have 3 children, 1 child with a medical condition so I am never sure how busy my life might become) I plan on dropping down to a 52 week project.

So, for now I start with a mosaic of all 363 photos from last year, made up from the end of month mosaics I did.

 
Well done you, even with 2 days missed its quite an achievement. Am looking forward to seeing what you decide for this year :thumbs:
 
I love the mosaic and it looks like a good start for this years 365, I have just started my first ever 365 so I hope I manage to be as dedicated as you were last year.

Matt
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Some great shots.

What a start to 2011 :thumbs:

Will be watching this thread through green eye's

Well done and keep up the good work

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Thanks everyone. I am enjoying myself this year! This time last year I felt a little overwhelmed, lol!

11/365 - today I have been mostly playing with lego. yes, this really is a picture made with lego. I lego-ized a photo using the lego app for the ipod, put it on the computer and used that for a template. It took 6 hours working around the kids... my knees are KILLING me!


Today I have mostly been playing with lego by Madhouseof5, on Flickr
 
I'm only just getting round to checking out other people's 365s, I'm really disorganised :p. What did you use to create your mosaic? I'd really love to do something like that for mine. The lego picture is so cool, I see your artistic skills lie in more than one area! How did you do photo 12? Its amazing, I really like it :)!
 
Thanks! I am quite disorganised too, but probably has a lot to do with the sheer number of challenges I took on this year.

I used Bighugelabs.com to create the mosaic. It is good because you can link from flickr or your computer. As for my artistic skills, having 3 young sons makes things a little easier as when all else fails, there is always their toys to play with, lol!

Photo 12 was done by painting with light. Basically, set up the shot first, then switch off the lights and use a torch or some other light source to "paint" in the bits you want to add. If you click on the photo, it should link to my flickr where more details are in the comments.
 
16/365 - taken for a weekly competition, the theme is Architecture shape and form. After thinking for much of the week and seeing people had already posted gargoyles and church spires etc, I decided to take a trip over to Stafford Castle. I thought I was going to come home empty handed as nothing was quite working. When I took this, I just knew it was THE shot, lol!


Untitled by Madhouseof5, on Flickr
 
Love t last pic... Need to try myself one day... How did u light it out of interest?
 
Thanks all! Set Nights, it was set up in front of one of my softboxes to backlight it and then the other was lighting from above, camera right.

It did take a whole lot of setting up as I don't have any clamps. It took a lot of sellotape and strategically places boxes, lol!
 
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