Every so often I will do a "365" photography project, one photo a day for a year. Here's the one for 2020 (yep, thinking of things to photograph during a lockdown is as hard as you imagine).

Last year, after coming off the back of the shitstorm of 2020, I decided to do something less taxing. Not a "365", but a "1", a one year solarcan exposure from my back garden.

So on January 1st I attached the solarcan to the side of my house, and waited.

This is the path the Sun made from January 1st 2021 to January 1st 2022.

I love this deep dive into Tokyo's local scale infrastructure.

When visiting Tokyo, if you are attuned to eating the world with your eyes and particularly the layers of urban life bigger than a cellphone and smaller than a building, one of the first things you’ll notice is how comparatively small the vehicles seem to be. Then, the sheer variety of these small vehicles. And then, how these vehicles, by virtue of their humble and appropriate scale and speed, help produce the city’s often delightfully humane streets. And then finally, that these small vehicles are scurrying around the world’s largest city.

By way of comparison, the municipal and commercial vehicles blasting around Manhattan, for example, are more like hulking tanks, built for battle, apparently ready to face off against the army of gargantuan SUVs contesting the same spaces. But in Tokyo, a city three times larger, the small scale of the vehicles makes instinctive sense.

Small vehicles of Tokyo by Dan Hill

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Around 5 years ago I had to put my belongings in storage due to a pending move.

5 years later I finally got them back, and while unpacking my cameras I realised that the Coronet 6-6 still had a film in it.

Yesterday I got the film back from the developers.

As best as I can remember (comparing them to existing digital shots from the time, plus when I received the camera), they were taken in Cornbury Park, during the winter of 2010, while I was working at Torchbox.

This camera was a present from Auntie Marie, who is now sadly gone. So although the memories are bitter sweet, it's a nice reminder of the power of photography.

Skye Isle II, Florida by Artist Christoph Gielen.

Hat tip: BLDGBLOG.

A wonderful shot of Frank Lloyd Wright. It looks like a still from a movie.

Hat tip: 37 Signals.

A wonderful shot of Frank Lloyd Wright. It looks like a still from a movie.

Hat tip: 37 Signals.

Laptopograms are images made by pressing photosensitive paper onto a laptop screen and flashing an image in a manner not unlike contact printing or photograms.

The packaging for Impossible’s revived line of polaroid film is lovely.