Manifesto - Part One

I quite like the irony of this. I decided to publish a manifesto here of how I will post to this Blog - and I am starting it off by posting a picture which is in contradiction with the manifesto. Good start.

I decided that for the purposes of this Blog I will use photographs taken with my newly purchased Canon A620 - I did after all by it with this sole purpose in mind. However, the photograph shown above was not taken with this camera - for the fairly simple reason that it would have been nigh on impossible to do so.

So, to part one of the manifesto - which states that there will be no manifesto.

With all this in mind, I think a manifesto is fairly redundant. As another example, the manifesto would have stated that I would post and entry every day. Now that plainly will not happen. So what to do? I mean the whole purpose of having this Blog is to enforce some discipline in taking photographs which I enjoy, rather then those which I feel obliged to. I think the solution is to state some targets, objectives that can honestly be attempted to deliver.

So far, I think I am comfortable with the following, as time goes by I may expand:-

1. Photographs will be taken with designated "Blog Camera", unless another camera is being used on that day for other reasons.
2. Posts will be made every day - and when a day is missed this will not be an opportunity to slip into serial laziness.

Yep, I think that will do for now.

So now I have got the rules out of the way, and certainly stacked in my favour - time to commit to ether why I am doing this Blog. I think I will save that for tomorrow.

A Very Rare Breed

Perfection is something that some aspire to. Character is defined by the areas in which something falls short of perfection. The trick is to aim for something which has tolerable faults, and endearing imperfections.

My First Photograph

Heineken glass photographed ~15 minutes after purchase of Canon A620, using macro focus ~1cm from glass.