• African daisy

    African daisy — Osteospermum, commonly known as African daisy. Copyright © 2007 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • My home city (365: 146)

    My home city (365: 146). Copyright © 2007 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

    I was born in Portsmouth; we moved away when I was eighteen months old and returned when I was sixteen. Portsmouth is mainly built on an Island; surrounded by the Solent to the South, Langstone Harbour to the East, Portsmouth Harbour to the West, and Ports Creek, an almost dried up creek at low water to the North. Just to the North is Portsdown Hill (where I am) which overlooks the city. Looking Southwest, behind me can be seen most of the city.

  • View from Portsdown Hill

    View from Portsdown Hill — This is the view over Portsmouth from Portsdown hill, with the English channel, Solent and Isle of Wight in the background. Copyright © 2007 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.
    I live here-ish, near the sea! Copyright © 2007 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

    This is the view over Portsmouth from Portsdown Hill, with the English Channel, Solent, and Isle of Wight in the background.

  • View from Portsdown Hill

    View from Portsdown Hill. Copyright © 2007 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

    This is the view over Portsmouth from Portsdown Hill, with the English Channel, Solent, and Isle of Wight in the background.

  • View over Portsmouth from Portsdown hill

    The view over Portsmouth from Portsdown hill, with the English channel, Solent and Isle of Wight in the background. Copyright © 2007 Gary Allman, all rights reserved

  • Inspired (365: 145)

    Inspired (365: 145). Copyright © 2007 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

    On day 43, I wrote:

    The guy I’m taking pictures of has lost his sense of fun, become boring, lost his passion and is just going through the motions. That’s what I’m seeing in my pictures. Now I’ve got to work out, do I want to change him and if so, how?”

    There were never going to be any easy answers to that one. But I think at last I might have found some.

    This was a last-minute session by monitor light, because, for the first time in 144 days I nearly forgot to take my picture, and I still haven’t been able to find a replacement bulb for my favourite lamp.

  • Reading (365: 144)

    Reading (365: 144). Copyright © 2007 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • You’ve Got Mail (365: 143)

    You’ve Got Mail (365: 143). Copyright © 2007 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

    Nothing fancy, just me at my PC in youngest’s room.

    I seem to be spending quite a lot of time here. Flickr has a lot to answer for 🙂

  • Spring

    Spring — No I didn’t put the rubbish there, that’s just how I saw it. Copyright © 2007 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Recycling

    Recycling — Copyright © 2007 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Mirror, Mirror (365: 141)

    Mirror, Mirror (365: 141) — I almost didn’t spot this picture. Copyright © 2007 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

    I almost didn’t spot this picture. I was taking a picture of a ‘Flip-Flop shop’ across the arcade and backed into an alcove for a better angle and something to lean against. I was just about to leave when I realised I was sandwiched between two mirrors.

    I had terrible problems with the exposure on this -I couldn’t work out what was wrong. I found out much later that I still had spot metering selected from an earlier shot I did against the sky. D’oh!

    Mirror, Mirror (365: 141) – I almost didn’t spot this picture. Copyright © 2007 Gary Allman, all rights reserved

    Note: the above image is not the original 365 Days picture I went with. That was this one, but modern phones and monitors show how out of focus this picture is. 🙁

  • Accessorize

    Accessorize. Copyright © 2007 Gary Allman, all rights reserved
    Accessorize, up close. Copyright © 2007 Gary Allman, all rights reserved

  • All that remains

    All that remains. Copyright © 2007 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

    This one bit of the old Tricorn Centre remains. It’s not a good angle. It was blowing a gale, raining and I was trying to keep the camera dry.

    I added some clouds in post-production because the original sky was blown out from having to expose the picture for the dark concrete.

  • Window Shopping

    Window Shopping — Checking out the goodies. I’m fed up with no remote and no manual focus. Copyright © 2007 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Neon

    Neon — I liked the colour. OK? Copyright © 2007 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Bench

    Bench — The seat is in the shape of a quill pen. Commercial Road Precinct. Portsmouth. Copyright © 2007 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Commercial Road Looking North

    Commercial Road Looking North — The leaf litter is evidence of the very high winds we have had the past couple of days. Copyright © 2007 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Waiting

    Waiting. Copyright © 2007 Gary Allman, all rights reserved

  • Listening to the silence between thoughts (365: 140)

    Listening to the silence between thoughts (365: 140). Copyright © 2007 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

    Yesterday I spent some time catching up on the ‘phone. I thought it’d be fun to recreate that time for my 365 picture.

    I look bloody miserable, well I’m not; it’s concentration, caused by using the zoom, it is so difficult to get the framing right when zoomed in tight, and I couldn’t do the shot hand-held, not enough light. maybe if I were female, I could multitask and concentrate, and smile at the same time 🙂

  • It was nice to get a mention …

    I don’t remember how I found this, but ten years after I left Futuremedia it was good of Andy to mention me in his comment on this blog post.

    And the page is still there…

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