Budding Swindon photographer captures life on camera - for more than 700 days straight

Using an online picture account, the 69-year-old has been capturing life beyond the end of her time as a legal secretary.

Inspired by a magazine article she read about photography, Maureen took on the challenge of taking a new photo every day for 365 days, but the habit stuck.

And with her 772nd picture being uploaded today, she has surpassed all her own expectations when she started out. Under the name Honeycombebeach on Polaroid’s Blipfoto website, Maureen has been amassing a variety of different images of the people and things she comes across each day.

Maureen, of Bevisland, Eldene, said: “I am always looking around.

"Everywhere I go I’m thinking that would make a good blip, or that might be good. I have been doing it for quite a number of years.

“There has been a long-standing joke in the family – if it’s not able to move, mother takes a picture of it.”

Her first photo was of Boscombe Beach in Dorset, and her latest, taken yesterday, formed part of the weekly Mono Monday she has attempted.

Every Monday, another of the website’s users in Australia sends out a word that each participant must relate their day’s photo to.

China was this week’s theme, and Maureen opted for her Royal Albert bone china teapot as the subject.

“My husband always says I have an eye for a photo. I just enjoy taking photographs. Why? Because I’m a bit creative,” she said.

“I began that Blip thing because it gives me the chance to write a blog too, which is creative.

“Now I’m retired I need to keep my brain active.

“It just gets addictive. I don’t want to miss a day now I have done 771 days on the trot.

“I wouldn’t say it’s the first thing I think of, but during the day I’m always thinking about something to take a photo of.

“I’ll continue until I have to stop and I don’t know when that will be – probably when I’m too old to get out and enjoy a camera.”

To see Maureen’s collection, visit polaroidblipfoto.com/honeycombebeach.