For this year 2019, I re-ignited my love for photography with Project 12, where I will take photos every month based on one or more ideas that describes that particular month. I used a book by photographer Tom Ang entitled Digital Photography Month By Month: How to capture the moments and moods of every season (available at Amazon) as my reference guide.
The book suggested 11 photography ideas to get inspiration from for every seasonal month. I will choose one or more ideas each month to capture one or more images from photowalks, travels or indoor sessions.
This photo of frost in my car's roof was taken in the mid-winter month of January. It is just one of the photos I took for Project 1/12: A frosty morning, which is the first in the series of Project 12. It almost never happened as I started quite late. I was hoping to capture a moment that best describes January to me - frosty mornings. When I started in the late half of the month, it was still not cold enough to have frost in the mornings. It did happen one Wednesday morning so I made two photography runs, no make that three actually.
This photo is that of Queensgate Footbridge, which links the city centre (via Queensgate Shopping Centre) to the railway station of Peterborough. For the February part of Project 12, I chose the idea of capturing images of city bridges. Peterborough is not known for bridges and I only know a few. Queensgate footbridge is not the best bridge to photograph in Peterborough. The nearby railway bridge is more iconic to photograph. I wanted to incorporate street photography on my photos that is why I chose the footbridge.
New growth was the subject I chose for this third series of Project 12. The month of March ushers in spring with new plant growth transforming the landscape. Dull grey and brown surroundings changed to fresh green and other bright colours. Hope springs eternal as life begins again. I did not need to go far as my own neighbourhood was a great source of new plant growth. And with this subject, I get to practice macro or close-up photography again.
The theme for the April segment of Project 12 is changing skies and this photo is that of the old TV antenna found at the back of our house. It is the middle of spring where the skies are at its most changeable, from light to dark or stormy to calm in successive moments. I was hoping to catch a stormy sky. Alas, April had almost ended and I have not had that opportunity. I opted for a less dramatic cloudy sky instead.