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The Tea Drinker

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This week’s photography challenge at The Gallery is for us to throw away our habits of smartening ourselves up before being photographed and snap ourselves as we are when we first read the posting.

Oh well … Not being one to be vain, here is The Tea Drinker.

The Tea Drinker 2012

And yes, I took this immediately after reading the message (well I couldn’t take it before as I didn’t know what it said!). It was mid-morning and I’d just got up after a non-alarm clock awakening. Undressed, unkempt and not even been as far as the bathroom, but I still have that all-important giant mug of tea attached to my face! This is the tradition of my people.

Luckily for you I cropped the image. 🙂

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Do It! … Ooooo … More!

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This week’s photography challenge over at The Gallery is for us to write our photographic resolutions for this year.

Well as most here will know already, I don’t do New Year resolutions because I see then asa self-fulfilling failure.

But that doesn’t mean I don’t have things I want to achieve. So what are they?

We're Going Home

Basically this year I just want to get out and take more photographs, more often. And keep pushing he boundaries with what I try.

I’m not doing very well at it so far, but I have hopes that I might still achieve it. Can’t do much less than I have so far this year!

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January Sunrise

Sunrise yesterday, Tuesday 17 January, over west London as seen from our study window.

Sunrise 17 January, version 3
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For those familiar with the Greenford area that’s Horsenden Hill just peeking over the houses on the right.

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In Case You Missed It …

Links to a selection of the curious and interesting items you may have missed in the last week or so.

Do You Have Free Will? How can we know?

Heroes of the Hot Zone: pen portraits of some of the guys who are trying to clean up Fukushima.

Waterstones ditches apostrophe. English must be under threat when a bookshop ignores good grammar and makes it’s possessive Waterstones’s which is worse!

OK, here’s one for the mathematicians out there: 153 and narcissistic numbers. I want to know how they’ve proved what the biggest such number is.

Here are some seriously stunning 100 year old colour photographs of Russia (see right).

Difficult to work out here who is the madder: Amish men jailed over reflective triangle dispute.

Cats occasionally like all sorts of unsuitable things. Apparently some even like mushrooms.

And finally, just to prove it is worth goig to the gym … Scientists name rare horse fly after Beyonce “in honour of its impressive golden behind”.

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Listography : Top 5 Photos of 2011

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I’m glad that Kate’s Listography this week has eschewed the temptation to ask about our New Year Resolutions — if only because I don’t believe NYRs!

No, this week Kate has asked us to choose our five favourite photos of 2011 from amongst those we’ve taken. This I like! I could easily do a lot more than five. So I decided that I’d give you my five favourite 2011 flower photographs from my Flickr photostream.

1. Crocuses (taken in our garden in February)

[7/52] Crocuses

2. Jonquil (taken in our garden in March)

Jonquil

3. Peony (taken at Kew Gardens in May)

Peony

4. Hebe (taken in our garden in July)

[29/52] Hebe

5. Hollyhock (taken in Chipping Norton in September)

Hollyhock
The Peony and the Crocuses appeared in my photobook (see on the right).

Enjoy!

Have a great 2012!
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[52/52] Self-Portrait with Cat

[52/52] Self-Portrait with Cat
This is the final week of my 2011 52 weeks challenge of a photograph a week, and I thought I should end with a self-portrait. So here I am with Harry the Cat enjoying some quality time.

I’ve now done two years worth of “52 weeks” so it’s time to take a break from it and find something else to make me keep taking photos. There is no escape!

Have a happy and prosperous 2012!