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Again, after my review this week, it has become evident that the latest website idea i had using my mobile as a navigation tool was floored in many ways, and making it work on a design level could be very difficult. As a result i have come up with a new design based more about me.

Initial Design below:

Well, what can I say. My head hurts and I seriously need some sleep. All in the name of fun! During today’s recovery period I read a very interesting article in Digital SLR User Magazine, it's titled 'Winter Projects: A Picture A Day'. This article was written by photographer Charlotte Griffiths.

As a part of her assignment for January’s issue of Digital SLR User Mag she was to take a picture a day for a week. That sounds fairly easy, but, is it? Magazine photographers spend hours planning and setting up there kit in order to get the best shots for the glossy pages. So can you really get a magazine quality picture just in day to day life.

As you can imagine no one would write such a story up if it wasn't possible so obviously it is, she carried it off. So I got thinking, can an amateur do it too? One way to find out I think. So as my new year’s resolution I’m aiming to take a picture a day for the whole of January. There will be a folder on my deviantart gallery named, January. All 31 images will be placed in there. Let me know what you think.

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Tom

Hey, this is just a brief message to say check out my new photography stuff @ tomedson.deviantart.com - and please leave comments and constructive critique!

I'm also working on a flash based Photography website which I'll post the link up here when I'm happy with it!

I also desperately need to post up all my identities work and my second life review - aghh been so busy.

Finally I've done my best to watch more films that safe to your retinas over the festive period so film reviews will also be on the way, just gonna get through the rest of the stack until i decided what to waffle about on here!

Merry Christmas!

Creating a Pin-Hole Camera was one of the activities done on welcome week! The idea is to make a very basic camera using simple materials and creating a good picture from it.

The Pin-Hole Camera was created using:
- A Can
- A Circle of Cardboard
- A Strip of Cardboard
- A Lot of Gaffa Tape
- A Piece of Electrical Tape
- A Hole
- A Piece of Photo-Sensitive Paper

Then its as simple as point, 'shoot' (the shooting part being removing the 'shutter', being electrial tape' leave for as many seconds as required), and finally replace the tape so no more light can enter into the camera (can with a hole in it).

Finally to produce the picture the photo-sensitive paper is put through the standard photo-development process:
- Developer
- Stop
- Fix
- Wash down with water

We now have the negative which you can see below:














The negative is scanned into a computer and inverted to give the genuine image, the final result shown below: