2012
The Big Smoke
Continuing with the photography theme. I recently took a trip to London, with the main aim of taking a few photos.
I ended up shooting more for the memories than to nail a really good photo, so I was struggling for a pick of the bunch, but finally settled on this:
I also shot in RAW for the first time (as well as JPG) so I have these stored to play with when I finally get round to buying Aperture!
I’ve also set my sights on my next lens, the well regarded Panasonic Lumix 20mm f/1.7. Definitely the next item on my camera shopping list!
Also….2 posts in a day, getting in to this writing lark! I might write more about the trip itself in another blog post.
2012
Programming
True to another of my resolutions, I’ve started to develop my programming skills!
I’ve settled on learning Objective-C, as I have the most scope to use this on my Mac.
After reading a lot of good things about Bucky’s tutorials, I’ve started to follow his Objective-C lessons on TheNewBoston. So far, I’ve only dipped my toes and I’m up and running with Xcode and written a simple command line app.
I hope to use this site as a reference point for myself and others looking to learn!
2012
Making a start
Making a start on one of my aims for the year, yesterday I visited Croxden Abbey to take some photographs.
I took over a hundered photos and was pretty impressed with most of them, being the first time I’d shot with anything better than a point & shoot or my iPhone 4.
This is my favourite shot.
Quite happy with my first real shoot, a lot still to learn, but at least I’ve made a start…
2012
Resolutions & Reflections
So it’s the beginning of a new year and I’ve decided to give blogging a go again.
I’ve kept this site for a while and haven’t really done anything with it, so I’ve decided to use it to catalog a few things I’m going to try and accomplish this year.
- Learn to play the guitar – this has been ongoing for a while, but I want to be able to call myself a competent player during this year.
- Learn a programming language – I’ve been dabbling recently in .NET with Sharepoint and I’ve also looked at Python. My goal though is to learn Objective C to create and release an app for iOS, but we’ll see how that goes!
- Take more photographs – not only this but also to learn more about photography.
Any decent ones will get posted to Flickr and shown on here. - Write more – hence this blog post (and hopefully more in the future!), but not just blogging. I’ve had the idea about writing a book for a while now, so I’d like to at least give a bit more thought to that too.
So there we are, my aims laid out in black & white. Let’s see if that gives me any more motivation to actually achieve some of them this year…