Category: Twelve Days of Christmas

According to my calculations today is indeed the twelfth day of Christmas. But we won’t be putting our Christmas decorations away until tomorrow, January 6th.  Tomorrow is  Three Kings Day when traditionally we tuck into sweet bread (Three Kings Cake) and hope for the piece with the little plastic king in it enabling the lucky finder to live like a king for the day. I’m sure all this 12 Days and 3 Kings business is explained in depth on the web, so I’ll say no more about it. The project motivated me sufficiently to use my camera a lot during the festive season but I’m not sure whether the resulting images really met my original ideas. I wasn’t after ‘Christmasy’ photos, but upon reflection they could perhaps have been just a little more seasonal. Today’s works simply satisfy this afternoons urge to look at something old…..   without gazing at the mirror 😉

Today I decided to continue the B&W theme which seems to be running through this ‘Twelve Days of Christmas’ project. Nothing typically Zurich, in fact the scenes could be anywhere I suppose. I’m beginning to grow quite fond of not only Black & White images, but also night shots… I’m sure there will be more to come.

Back to work today. The canteen, or restaurant as it likes to be called, will stay closed until next Monday so I decided to go for a brisk walk and a tram ride. It was in the tram that I hit upon the idea for today’s blog entry.

New Year’s Day, and a new chapter in life’s fascinating book begins. Apart from the usual New Year’s resolutions, early to bed, healthy eating etc. etc. we do have a few trips planned during the coming 12 months. Nothing earth shattering! No climbing Mount Everest or exploring the Arctic on a bicycle, but nevertheless we do have one or two short excursions in mind that will hopefully motivate and enable my photo efforts to attain new heights 😉  – So to get off on the right foot, we decided to leave our village behind us this morning and visit a nearby pond….  well it’s a start isn’t it!.

Having received two copies of Black + White photography magazine a week or so before Christmas, I am obviously eager to experiment with monochrome. It’s interesting how     B & W images are still so very popular, but somehow they do hold a certain fascination.