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\"\"<\/a>First blog entry of 2018, so we\u2019d better start with Happy New Year to any readers. We start with an image to get your attention. We\u2019ll get back to the toy train sort of models soon but for this installment its more on photography.<\/p>\n

In the last episode I mentioned making more of photography as a different hobby to every flavour of trains and that I\u2019d had some tuition in doing the close up macro photography. The interest in actually taking photography has actually taken a hold and has become absorbing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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I should, perhaps, introduce my partner in crime, Clare. You may have seen Clare in some of my photographs, usually featuring a train, as Clare is a fireman at Beamish and on the FR but she it also a keen photographer. In 2016 she did a photo a day thing on Facebook but in 2017 did very little. In conversation we both realised that without some challenge or project we\u2019d end up lazy and not do any photography and, if we did, just do the same old stuff and not stretch ourselves.<\/p>\n

A plan was hatched!\u00a0 We are doing a couple of taught photography days in the coming months, so we\u2019ll get someone else\u2019s ideas of what we should be doing which was my idea. Clare\u2019s idea was to take a published list of photo topics as a challenge to be completed. We\u2019ve picked the BBC `In Pictures\u2019 http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-10768282<\/a> and created a shared album on Facebook visible to our friends to show our pictures.\u00a0 The idea is we\u2019ll aim to submit at least one photo that suits the criterion by the given date. The first topics for 2018 are: –<\/p>\n