Author: Gavin
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Routine
After deciding to take some time off from taking photos every day, I have come to realise that it wasn’t the taking photos that my body and mind required, but the motivation to get out there and do something. We are now in May…very nearly June (uh oh..) and I may have taken less than…
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The seed
There’s nothing quite like traversing the country under your own steam. It is one thing to cycle a few miles to the office, but when you start crossing county lines, moving from one large town to the other that you start to realise you may be capable of so much more. Following on from my…
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Saying goodbye to 2022
It is the last day of December 2022. Tomorrow another year begins, bringing with it the hopes that somehow 2023 will be better than the last. It’s also the end of the second 365 I’ve completed on the bounce. A substantial 700 photographs that I was at least happy with on the day they were…
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Consolidation
Way back in 2015 I started a little blog about cycling in Cardiff. It was called Cardiff By Bike and it was my way of learning and engaging with the realities of cycling in Wales’ capital city. Part of the reason I wanted to write about cycling was because so much of the internet and…
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Autumn
We’re nearing the end of October, the clocks are going back an hour and once again I find myself trying to adjust to a new routine. I always used to be an early riser. When I started working full time in my late teens I’d usually be waiting for the 7:00am train, wide awake and…
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Summer…
Back in 2015 I rediscovered cycling. Truth be told, I became a little obsessed with it. What started out as a desire to get a little fitter and improve my health became an all-consuming obsession that saw me take on 100-mile rides around south Wales and south-west England. I then really leant into it and…
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Seasons…
We’re now in what feels (occasionally) like Spring. There’s life in the trees again; the birds are singing; my eyes are streaming from the tree pollen and there’s certainly a bit of warmth to that sun now. So, where are we? Well, the 365 project is still on, helped in no small part by the…
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Around we go again…
After spending all of last year taking a photo every day, for some reason I decided to go around again. This could be another year where I rarely leave the village, or do anything remotely interesting. So what on Earth possessed me to carry on with it? Consistency Truth be told, forcing myself out of…
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December – An ending of sorts…
The year is finally at an end. Three hundred and sixty five photographs, one a day for twelve months. It has felt like a very long year. Then again, this was kinda the point. It’s all too easy to tune time out, ignoring the mundane for years before realising you’ve reached middle age and wondering…
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November…
You would think that after ten months of doing this, the eleventh month would be a breeze. It wasn’t. As winter approaches and the days get shorter, suddenly it is dark by the time I finish work, so I either have to shoot in the dark or race out for half hour during my break.…
Gavin Lewis 