For amateur photographer Ian Wright, 2011 will be forever memorable.

The 41-year-old, from Weston Rhyn, near Oswestry, carried his camera everywhere and took one picture every day for a whole year.

Inspired – photographer Ian Wright in the frame

The 365 pictures include fabulous sunsets, small insects, rolling countryside – and even a rusting garage door.

• See more pictures in our gallery to your right

Mr Wright, a land surveyor, said: “I haven’t stopped yet and will keep doing it for as long as I can. It is enjoyable and I want to carry on with the project.

“It is something you can really get involved with and it becomes something you really enjoy.”

Mr Wright’s wife Tracy suggested the idea after being inspired by the social media website www.blipfoto.com, an online daily photo journal. He said having the opportunity to take a photograph every day allowed him to capture what he saw as interesting about day to day life.

He said: “I am not a snob about my photography nor necessarily think I am brilliant, but I do like things to look a certain way when they hit the virtual world.”

He said pictures of the unusual and interesting that had caught his eye during the year of photography appealed to him more than people or places.

Mr Wright said: “I tend to keep away from people and portraiture generally and lean more to the landscape. I am also very interested in the run down, rusting and tatty. I like nothing more than discovering a tatty garage door or rusty old vehicle.”

The photo journal also serves as a record of Mr Wright’s travels this year both near and far.

Images from Erddig National Trust property near the Shropshire/Welsh border are included in the journal alongside photos from a trip to Malaga in Spain and images from a Hackney church.

He said he hoped people would enjoy the photographs by visiting his Blipfoto journal at www.blipfoto.com/IanWright and having a look at his work.

And he added that he learned a lot about his photography style during the challenge.

Mr Wright said: “My first lesson came quite quickly. I had been spoilt because of being away on holiday during my first week of January and was able to take more of ‘my style’ of photo.

“Suddenly on January 10 I was at home, it was dark and I was frankly scuppered. It was either give up or adapt. And although I would peg around trying to take a nice photo for a few weeks it soon became unsustainable and I adapted.

“I am now much more aware of the immediate environment and its potential for photography than I used to be.

“I have found Blip to be a wonderful, experience. It has the creative environment in which it is possible to not only conceive of but actually complete a whole year of daily photographs.”