More Than I Can Chew?

I started a new photo challenge today. Having finally lost the will to live waiting for Hipstamatic support to be able to provide me with a way to download the old photo’s I’ve posted to Ogle that I don’t have copies of, I created a new blog and decided to make do with the ones I have saved and to start again with the rest.

I made a spreadsheet (I do love a spreadsheet) to work out which combinations I already have and how many combinations there are altogether and at the moment there are 10,890 possible combinations of lens/film in my collection. This is going to take years! Have I bitten off more than I can chew? Possibly, but there’s no deadline. This could end up being a lifelong challenge, especially if I’m tempted to get any more lenses or films as they release new ones.

I decided to create a stand-alone blog for it instead of adding the images to my About Time blog with the other quests as there are so many photographs to take it will take up all the memory and I really want it to remain a free blog so maybe it will stay out there in the world long after I’ve gone.

I’ve been working out which combinations I’ve already taken photographs with have and adding them to a album then uploading them as posts and film galleries on my Hipstamatic Quest blog today. It’s going to take a while but at least there will be regular content going onto the blog so maybe it’ll get a bit of a following. I hope it’ll kick start some photographic creativity, it feels like I’ve stagnated for a while, even if it is with my iPhone not the DSLR.

Update 06/10/2019 – I was given a few extra lenses by Hipstamatic support as a gift for taking so long to respond. I foolishly accepted and now there are 11865 combinations! This may take me the rest of my life 🤣🤣

Update 25/08/2020 I bought more films and lenses! There are now 12321 possible combinations – step away from the Hipstamart now!

Camera

One of the things on the list for the Photographic Scavenger Hunt 101 was ‘My Camera’.

I have a few, quite a few, probably too many (can you have too many ?) cameras, film and digital, that I have collected over the years.

I was going to post a photograph of my usual weapon of choice my Canon 7D, it’s a great digital SLR and the camera that I use for all photoshoots and when I want to be sure of capturing the best quality I can.

If I have to choose one it’s always going to be my first. The camera that fired the passion, a gift from my parents in 1980, it still works, it still gets used and I still love it. My Zenith EM. Russian, tough and built to last (and with my track record with caring for technology that’s an essential quality).

 

He’s Back!

As you may have noticed I love a Photo Scavenger Hunt (or two!) so when I heard that Gromit and his friends were being unleashed in Bristol, for the second time, I added a photo of every sculpture to my scavenger hunt quests. Unlike most of my challenges this one will have a time limit as Gromit Unleashed 2 will only be on display around Bristol from July 2nd to September 2nd with 67 statues to find. I’ll post a photo of them as I find them and add them to the list. There were 80 statues in the first Gromit unleashed event and I managed to find 32 of them so I’m aiming for a better final score this time.

(These images are from the Gromit trail back in 2013)

Watch Out Gromit – Gerald Scarf

Hero – Tom Deams

Isambark Kingdog Brunel – Tim Miness

Gromit Unleashed began as a public arts trail in Bristol in 2013, as a collaboration between Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Appeal, the Bristol Children’s Hospital Charity, and Aardman Animations, to raise funds to support sick children and babies at the Hospital.

A Grand Day Out – Andy O’Rourke

aMazing Gromit – Tom Berry

Being Gromit Malkovich – Thomas Dowdeswell

Oops a Daisy – Diarmuid Gavin

Unfortunately the sculptures are vulnerable to vandalism and some people just love to wreck things! Four of the sculptures were damaged in 2013

Here’s the rest of  my collection of photographs from Gromit Unleashed 2013…

Gromit O Matic – Donough O’Malley

Scavenger Hunt 101 – A Boat Without A Motor.

When I started this blog the idea (hence the title) was all about what I do with my time. The hours, the days, the years, I always seem to be fighting time and wondering where it went so I thought keeping a journal of some of the ways I use the time I have might help make some sense of it all.

A project I started a while ago (2010) was a challenge I found on flickr – Scavenger Hunt 101 There’s a list of 101 photographs to take that was created on the original flickr group and all photographs must have been taken after you joined the group. As I joined back in 2010 there will be a few from the archives. The ‘advised’ timescale to complete the challenge was a year but it was never a race for me and I wanted to avoid falling into the trap of taking crap photographs just for the sake of ticking another one off of the list which was something I found myself doing when I did my 366 project.

No deadlines, no rush just some photographic inspiration and some fun with a camera (or two)

(Photographic Scavenger Hunt 101 – the full list)

 

Artistic Temperament Scavenger Hunt – Happy Birthday

10 today, loves tuna, hates candles.

(No cats were hurt in the taking of this photo and all candles were removed  long before he got near it and left him free and safe to enjoy his Birthday Tuna – just in case you were wondering.)

Artistic Temperament Scavenger Hunt – the full list

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