March: Then

When putting together the previous post on March 2013 I had a quick swim through my archive.  It was fun to revisit the previous projects that had grabbed me at this point in the year, over the years.  Here are a few images that jumped out at me.  If I get a moment I may set up the links to previous projects here or in the appropriate sections (failing that, just check out the archive on this blog or search for a keyword!).

March 2010

 

March 2011

March 2012

-PM

Forgotten Photos form 2010

With the New Year steaming ahead I decided to flashback to 2010 to find some forgotten, or overlooked, images that were hidden on hard drives and contact sheets. The first half of the year was mostly consumed with photographing prosthetic limbs and napes so the majority of unseen material came from the latter half of the year. So, out of some 22,000+ files, here are a few choice images that brought back some memories:

7/4/2010 Antiracism Pie

25/4/2010 Choose Pie

1/10/2010 - CCTV in Enniskillen

3/10/2010 - Sunday at the Ponds

26/10/2010 - Gerard, Behind Castle Court shopping centre, Belfast

Films of 2010

Ok, my top 5 films from 2010! At first I thought this was going to be a tough list to draw up as nothing really jumped out at when I thought, "what have I seen and loved this year?" Sadly, I missed a few films which may have made the list, such as David Fincher's The Social Network, Mike Leigh's Another Year, and Lee Changdong's Poetry will have to wait until a DVD release before I amend my top 5.

So, in no particular order:

[Oh, click on the film name to catch the trailer!]

Enter The Void

Gaspar Noé

Winter's Bone

Debra Granik

Black Swan

Darren Aronofsky

Summer Wars

Hosoda Mamoru

Toy Story 3

Lee Unkrich

However, one film came very close to slipping into my Top 5 because of the perfectly nonchalant surrealism and unfettered mysticism that exists in nearly every scene:

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

The other films worth a mention include: Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro; Banksy's Exit Through the Gift Shop; Gareth Edward's Monsters; Chris Morris' Four Lions; Tomm Moore's The Secret of Kells; and, Anton Corbijn's The American.

December... Fail!

The last month of the year and things are going well, mostly. I reached my one year 'dreadiversay' on the 3rd [photo below] and have been working flat out, which is a good thing. The down side of working as much means that my time to photograph is being gobbled up by things that offer me money (thanks HBO!). As a result I missed my first week of the 'Street Photography Now' challenge, it was Week 9: "play photographic poker"... for week 9 info see here.

One Year Dreadiversary!

On the plus side I did help an old friend, Mark Robinson, out by recording myself singing some of my favourite lyrics for his interactive media project, 'A Networking Project'. I will post the full video up when I find it... It really turned out well, and luckily a few vocally talented individuals got involved.

Week 10 of the Street Photography Now challenge should be fine as it overlaps with a style of photography that enjoy, and can easily slot in on the way to work. Week 10: "Photograph like an assassin; Suddenly and silently." - Osamu Kanemura

More on this challenge soon. With Belfast firmly frozen over I hope to silently snap up some fantastic falls... :)

-PM

July: 24/7

Throughout 2008 I undertook, and finished, the 'one photo per day' challenge. This was a great exercise in discipline (both personal and photographic), and something that ingrained photography practice into my life so thoroughly that thinking about 'an image' became second nature. To see the project visit my flickr set.

In an attempt to recreate the discipline involved in documenting life I set the goal of photographing every day in July. Having fragments from every single day for a month or year means, for better or worse, you forget very little.

The images appear in chronological order.

-PM