Gary Allman's year in self portraits

Refelction

Quick shot in the hall mirror

Quick shot in the hall mirror by Gary Allman

I’ve been busy processing pictures.

27 September 2011 | 365:270 | 365 Days blog | Copyright © 2011 Gary Allman


Double take

Double take by Gary Allman

I thought I’d cleaned the mirror before taking this picture.

Obviously not. Ginger’s not been feeling too well, so I let her sleep and picked up the big kids from school.

Double take - two

And I took one with the focus reversed on the mirrors

21 September 2011 | 365:264 | 365 Days blog | Copyright © 2011 Gary Allman


Meet my camera

Meet my camera by Gary Allman

It’s about time I took another mirror shot

Today I helped Jim deliver his bottle tree to its new owners. We drove to Oklahoma and the Will Rogers museum where we loaded the tree into the pickup of the very happy Bud and Marg.

After a break for lunch we visited the Will Rogers memorial museum. To cut a long story very short, thanks to Ivan Pace, whose business card is sitting on the desk in front of me, and says “It just don’t seem right for a man to go through life without owning a Winchester Rifle or a Colt Pistol” we had the privilege of going into the Rogers family tomb. Judging by the difficulty they had getting the doors open I doubt there’s many Brits that can say that, and I suspect not so many Americans either.

It rained the entire time we were in Oklahoma so I didn’t take any pictures apart from a couple of shots of the Bottle tree in the back of the pickup.

In tonight’s picture we get to meet my D7000.

22 August 2011 | 365:234 | 365 Days blog | Copyright © 2011 Gary Allman


Gary and Ginger at the Tate Modern

Gary and Ginger at the Tate Modern by Gary Allman

UK June 2011 – Day 7. A day out in London

We took the train to London and spent most of the day looking around the Tate Modern, which is where I took todays picture.

By the time we’d finished at the Tate Modern it was too late to do much else. So we walked all along the South Bank – watching Tower bridge be raised three times. I’ve never seen it raised that often before, and I used to work just around the corner!

We had a stroll around the outside of the Tower of London, St Paul’s Catherdral, and ended up in Trafalgar Square.Ginger was unimpressed by the usual tourist haunts, such as the Globe Theatre. So much so we decided not to bother returning, which was a shame as I rather fancied seeing the Tate Gallery and Natural History Museum, not to mention the inside of St Paul’s. Also I’ve never been to Greenwhich Maritime museum, which I really want to see one day. Ginger missed out on Kew gardens so there’s plenty left over for another trip.

Today’s extras

Sunflower Seeds - Ai Weiwei

Sunflower Seeds - Ai Weiwei at the Tate Modern

Floor 4 - Tate Modern

Floor 4 - Tate Modern

Tower bridge, River Thames, London

Tower bridge, River Thames, London

21 June 2011 | 365:172 | 365 Days blog | Copyright © 2011 Gary Allman


High School parking lot

This cliché Lomo and mirror shot is all I have to offer today.

I had an idea for a shot either putting the camping gear out to air, or putting it away again, but for one reason or another that idea fell through. As the a lot of my day was spent processing the pictures from the weekend’s backpacking trip, it wasn’t an appealing photo op. While waiting for the kids to come out from school I thought I’d experiment with a car mirror shot, and that’s it for the day.

22 February 2011 | 365:053 | Copyright © 2011 Gary Allman


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