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This morning, I've used my blogging time to write a post for the Shared Worship Group Backgrounds group on Flickr, which is of several that I administer — just a little bit of housekeeping to explain how the rules of the group are designed to serve not to hinder.

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Here we are in March and I realised I had not got round to selecting a favourite picture for January 2010. I have picked a shot of a fence from the walk we took in the depths of the snow. The low position of the land and the high position of the clouds frames the empty sky in between and gives an impression of space.

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For my final monthly favourite from 2009 I present this image of an icy lane in Devon, taken on Christmas Eve. Truth be told, it is one image but, strictly speaking, two photographs as I blended together one that kept the detail of the sky with another that reveals the ice along the roadway. The result is moody but not just the silhouette it would have been without this blending technique (a digital graduated neutral density filter).

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I'm still working on pictures I took in December (just a handful from the Steampunk exhibition at the Museum of the History of Science left to go) so I can't pick my favourite picture for the month just yet.

However, at least I haven't been stuck with the “constipation” I've had before! Heavy snow and other events have kept my finger on the shutter button. That reminds me — I'd better go and get a shot of that large pothole in the road just outside the house and alert the council.

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I was tempted to pick one of my fiery wallpaper series as my favourite picture for November but decided instead to choose this image. It shows the play of light on a pillar in St Clement's church and is being used to represent our entry for next year's Artweeks project. It was taken with my Lensbaby lens and has had just a little digital manipulation to make the colour and contrast more intense.

If I am not careful, picking my favourite from December will be tricky as, so far, I have not taken any photos at all!

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For my final fiery wallpaper, I gave the camera more of a shake as it moved. The effect is like tangled hair (although I'd love to know where you could get hair dyes to create this intensity of light!)

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Number four in the series of fiery wallpapers used a smooth sweeping motion to create a subtly undulated effect.

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