testmeat photoblog

after going a whole month posting a photo everyday i've managed to spoil my record fairly spectacularly by not adding a picture for a whole week. my excuse for this is work, which has kept me busy both during the day, and on evenings and the weekend. i've had one of those projects where a couple of weeks work was required in a weeks time. with that now (almost) wrapped up i'm hoping to get back to a more regular posting routine. it's a bit of a bugger that this period of work coincided with dramatic snowfall and also a new super wide-angle lens i was (very lucky to have been) given for christmas. i was hoping to make the most of both of these, but feel i haven't had the chance to take full advantage. as a result i've only really been out and about when going to and from work, so this shot was taken on the way to work. if it looks familiar, it's because i took a shot from a near identical position before christmas. i usually try to avoid repeat images, but in my head the wide-angle and black and white were justification to post another shot so soon. i first tried out a wide-angle lens when i was on holiday in peru. i commented back then that i particularly liked the effect it had on the clouds in the sky. i like to think that this reinforces that viewpoint, although it certainly helps having an elusive dramatic sky to work with.

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