The Gallery: A Smile

My brother has a funny smile. It amazingly does not exist. I could have taken another one where he did smile but that is quite hard to do so I settled for a photo which I perceive to be my absolute favourite portrait I have taken. I touched it up and of course, I changed the colour settings a bit and Joe seems to like this picture a good bit

This was taken in Cardiff next to the water feature outside the Millenium Centre. Pretty, isn't it?
Isn't it?!

Editor's Note: The observent one's among you would see that it's also the picture in this month's logo.

The Gallery: Back to School

Incidently, as I post this, it is one day before I have to be back into school for another two years; Yippie! For those wondering, I have chosen to take a diploma in digital applications whilst taking up physics too and I think you would agree that if you know me well that they are quite good choices. So, my picture, I guess:

These were both taken last night because annoyingly, true artistic instinct comes to me when I'm ready to go to sleep. but anyway, this is the word 'Learn' in many languages and in regular fashion, I would like you people to guess what languages are there. A couple are obvious and a couple are not so obvious.

Have fun!

The Gallery: One day in August

So, back to the amazing world of The Gallary which I try to do every week but of course, I often fail at that. So a couple of days ago was the bank holiday weekend for those living in England and Wales and it rocked. This week's topic is to head into the spontaneous and just take a photo of something on Sunday 29th August and report back with it and boy was it fun. After seeing a new building on the news, my father insisted on going to London for his day off, conveniently on the 29th. Yippie.

A little game, if you will: Guess where these photos were taken and you might get a prize. Or not..

The Gallery: A photo I'm proud of

Firstly, with this post, I will totally feel like an egotist. And I shouldn't really; I'm generally really modest about my photography and I think quite little of it. Both my parents, particularly my dad, often drop their opinons upon my work like my mini little critic crew so to speak.

For the photo itself, there are so many to choose from as I feel that I should be proud of all photos I take and to an extent, I do. But instead of leaving it at that I figured I'd pick one and boy was it difficult.

© Andy Harmon

This photo was one of the first I had taken with my new camera of this flower (which once again, I have no idea of which species) but it was one of the first macro photos I had taken and why it makes me proud? Well, it's something I submitted as a competition entry and even though it's not a winner (yet..) it's still one of my favourites.

I must say though, I've had such fun with this particular gallery entry!

The Gallery: Nature

Woah woah woah! This is so mine right now. Have I not mentioned how totally amazing I am at taking brilliant photos of flowers and other lovely green things. I actually want to go to the local nature park to trial out my new camera I received for my birthday so do expect thousands more photos! Anyhow, back onto the subject I reveil my photo of honour!

© Andy Harmon

So this photo is quite special to me; It was taken about 6 months ago when the cold weather Britain had was starting to fade away and it was at this same time I started to be interested in photography and having these new crazes which caused me to have these really insane photos being produced. Amazingly, I never had though this photo particularly was half-decent but this was based on my original thoughts about my work which, on reflection, are quite shocking. Now I think about it, this is probably one of my stronger images but I tend to leave that to the critics..

(This is also Photo Every Day 33)

The Gallery: Can you see what it is yet?

*This is a blog post for The Gallery which is hosted by Tara at Sticky Fingers*

© Andy Harmon

So this theme seems to be my forte since I love taking macro images and this week's theme seems heavily based around that. So anyhow, this should be an amazingly easy one for y'all to guess at considering I also put it in a friendly contest with a friend who hosts a macro war kinda thing over MSN. Since it was a kitchen based theme and this was the closest thing to me I took it and I'm a bit surprised at how sharp the image came out.

(This is also Photo Every Day #24)

The Gallery: Emotions

Oh dear! You should know that over at Sticky Fingers, I partake in a bit of fun called The Gallery which I do with my Photo Every Day series. A little bit of fun you can try!


So, anyway this week it's emotions and I have loads of pictures of my time at the National Tramway Museum. I'll be showing a few of them as a lot of them are quite nice!

*Expressive image alert*

The Gallery: Creatures

This is a post for The Gallery over at Sticky Fingers. This is also the Photo Every Day too!

The Gallery : Self Portrait

Over at Sticky Fingers (a greatly amusing blog, I must include) has this weekly contest/bit of fun called The Gallery in which bloggers will follow a certain theme and they go out and photograph that theme. This week, it be Self Portraits.


Now, I'm not that fond of taking pictures of myself so I'm going to use expressive imagery to show my point. Bloody hell.

Anyway, like most teenagers today, I am an internet whore. I'm one of those people who cannot understand how the hell people had lived before 1996.. Only with the understanding that the internet only became public in the 90's. Not, like 2000. So, my picture symbolises this idea of the fact that I am, for the most part, on my computer doing something really geeky or so forth. Anyway, I really suggest that you have a good look at the entries and maybe submit. It only takes a while.