OK, I'll ask.

2010: no friends or family lost, although a couple are quite ill. 1 friend had a baby on 1st December. A little bit of travel; Dubai in May where many photos were taken, Portsmouth and Southampton in August ( a few photos taken with my Ricoh P&S), and Chewton Glen in the New Forest just before Christmas.

2011: Would like to do more travelling, with a "mystery" conference abroad for work in Feb or May this shouldn't be a problem! Because of difficulties at work (for one it's boring, and two, newer, less experienced people are getting promoted over me), I think 2011 will be the year I branch out as a Freelance Photographer. I already have local contacts with Tourist Info and the like, so would like to start off with postcards and prints of the local area. This leads on to my next goal of improving my photography technique and developing a style that people will recognise. I also want to improve and do more plant portraits and garden landscapes with a view to entering that market too.

I also need to start exercising self discipline and planning - which I have been good at in the past, but have become lazy at after working for a large company for 2 and a half years. I will need to do lots of research into my chosen areas of expertise and plan my next steps carefully, but I'm really looking forward to the challenge. I can't wait to break out of the box my office job has put me in!

Oh and if Unlocker and I get a spare 5 minutes we'd like to have a baby too!

Well, to my notebook...

Fiona

Didn't notice that one in his plans .

You could have both popped in for a coffee .. I live just round the corner from the Chewton Glen.

Well, what he doesn't notice won't hurt him!!

Unfortunately I was there with work without the other half, but if I'm down that way again, I'll take you up on that offer!

Fiona

2011:

Considering whether to put money aside for a K-x as it has video and better high ISO performance than my K-m, but I'm not sure how the batteries will hold up if I use it for video (or even whether I want to spend £350 or so on a second camera just to get that capability). The alternative is that I'd still like to get hold of an LX and 50mm f1.4 (K series for preference but M would do). Or should I avoid buying any more film bodies and go after a K-x as an upgrade...

Want to do more interesting shallow depth of field shots with my new Samyang 85mm, it's a bit good where bokeh is concerned so I plan to have a go at flower shots come spring.

We were talking photography plans!

2010 was a very bad year for loosing friends, right up to one very unexpectidly on xmas eve

Have these influenced my photography? Yes - the first one I lost was a photographer all his life, and my photographic activity this year has entirely been triggered by our last conversation together.

Was I happy with it? Well, there's a handful of photographs (out of c.6k) that I'm happy with. So the goal for 2011 is to focus on improving this ratio! I do have various projects I'm considering, but a lot will depend on how work goes, which - as always - will be very unpredicatable.

The new Pentax bodies aren't entirely floating my boat at present - the K5 is a clear improvement over the Kx, but I'm still undecided if it will address the issues I have with low-light photography more than spending time working on my technique and composition first, and getting a D3S (or D4) later in the year if work goes well.

Hopefully 2011 will see me still in work, along with all Bradford Council employees I was served with a redundancy or new contract notice.

If all goes well it'll be another tour around Europe or France in the summer and lots of trips in the UK to tale piccys.

No new camera, I'm happy with my K110 and K200 bodies, although the new DA35mm is tempting.

Film wise I intend to use some of mt Pentax bodies and more of my old folding camera collection, just for fun.

Go for it, best £150 you can spend on Pentax gear at the moment IMO. Very much in the tradition of the old M 50mm f1.7 as a sharp standard lens which takes up little space and weighs even less.

Well bring on 2011..... I have managed to turn my job of IT training to incorporate Digital Imaging and Photography training. It is amazing on how much I am learning from my students. Especially the younger more adventurous. Plus finally joining the site rather than just using it as a resource.... onwards and upwards!

I am in the rare situation of gaining a family lost for 20 years so loads of happy snapshots!

2010,

Friends lost and new friends made, old job lost new job found.

My new job means I now have to commute 150 miles a day, so 2.5litre swapped for 1.4, and 75 mile of Essex/Cambridgeshire country side to photograph. oh the opportunity...

I have taken precisely 1 set of pictures!! link

2011 I will take more!

MZ

Well I got married and moved into a new flat so I guess 2010 was a pretty good year.

Photographically, it wasn't bad, but I am getting a bit bored with my best images that everyone else likes. Next year I'd really like to get a few more photos into print and plan to submit many more to magazines and competitions.

As to new kit, I was planning to get a K-5 but at the moment I am rather struck with my new FED2 and have been eyeing up various Russians LTM lenses...

K.

2010 has been very very good year, through facebook I have found relatives in Oz who came & visited this year, have lost no friends or family either.

Photography wise career goes from strength to strength.

Covered four of the biggest music festivals including Glastonbury where I had access to all stages for the first time. Also got to shoot two festivals in Ibiza plus my image of Pete Doherty in Ibiza was published in the Sun's Bizarre page. Was accepted by one of the worlds largest entertainment agencies & last month was accepted on to the books of another huge agency where I have become their live music photographer for the north of England.

Have had three lead reviews in Clash magazine including getting to shoot Patti Smith who is possibly one of the few influences on me.

Had my first cd cover printed.

I am now regularly shooting the large arena shows.

For 2011

To sell more images

To shoot more festivals for agency stock

To be regularly published in the national press

To be published in the Live section of NME

To get two k-5 bodies to take advantage of the high ISO capabilities & that low light focussing improvement.

2010, was a good year in my life. Good knows where it went though, what happened to the Spring, Summer and Autumn ?

2011, photography plans, none really. Currently I have a rather large craving to buy a Spotmatic, and a couple of nice Takumar's, but I know this is just a nostalgic whim, and the kit would spend more time on the shelf than out in the field. So far I have managed to resist the temptations of eBay.

Anyway, A happy 2011 to you all !

Cheers,

/Ian

2010 was an anxious year employment wise, with my new employers keeping me on 3 month contracts while memories of redundancy in late 2009 were still fresh in my mind. And the new government coming along and ripping the guts out of the construction industry and the public sector, both of whom are key to the work I do as a landscape architect. But the contract keeps getting renewed which has given me confidence to grant myself luxuries like a holiday etc.

Three wedding of close friends and family. Spent some quality time with my family and young godson/cousin who was suffering with terminal cancer.

Sadly my godson did not make it to Xmas, although he was well enough to attend family parties and was looking forward to the festive season almost right up to the end. He had struggled for four years until his death, aged 17.

I hope 2011 will allow some more adventurous travel, more photography as part of my job, and will allow me to pick up some faster glass as i'm appreciating shallow dof more and more. I'd also like to take on a proper photographic project, two I have in mind are documenting the activities of my local community church (no I haven't come down with a dose of religion this year!) or photographing the full course of the Derbyshire Derwent.