Sometimes it's hard for me to post a new picture because the one I posted yesterday was so much better than the one I'm posting today. This is one of those times. I really liked yesterday's hosta picture, and this is just one that I took because it was 10:00 and I hadn't taken a picture yet. But it is another part of the house to cross off the list.
I woke up this morning and realized with a gasp that not only did I not post a picture yesterday, but I didn't even take any pictures yesterday. Not a single one! I even went on a walk with my camera and didn't shoot anything.
So, I kind of made up for it today by doing two rounds of picture-taking. I'm going to pick one picture from each batch to post today. Here's number one.
I hardly took any pictures today, and none of them were really worth posting. But here's one anyway. If I let it go once it will be too easy to let it go another time. My goal is still to try for one picture post a day for a year. I think this is day 55.
I took this picture while standing on our back porch looking down at Mark as he stood on the driveway. When we got home later tonight and looked at the pictures I couldn't stop laughing at this one. It's so funny how distorted the perspective is.
Last week I bought a dinky tripod for $4 at a thrift store (I haggled him down from $7). Now I can take pictures without flash and with slow shutter speeds that aren't too blurry. I took this same shot both with the flash and without--this is the 'without' shot. They were very different. I like the way the light is coming from behind the glass in this picture. In the other one the light was shining on the glass, rather than through it--that made it kind of flat and lifeless.
Saturday, May 19, 2007
This is the only picture I took on Saturday on our way home from Hilton Head. Overall I was a bit disappointed with the pictures I took on my trip. There was always something going on that I thought would make good pictures, but in the end most of my pictures were snapshots rather than photographs. I got kind of tired of taking pictures by the end of the week. I should have just taken one hour each day to go find something to take pictures of, but instead I felt like I had to take my camera everywhere.
Thursday, May 17, 2007
The view across the wetlands at this park on Hilton Head Island usually shows big houses on the opposite shore, but not on this day. Smoke from the forest fires in Florida had been blown up the coast, making everything hazy and gray, not to mention the campfire smell that permeated everything.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
My niece Gwen was showing me a shell she had found, but I thought this look on her face was more picture-worthy.
Saturday, May 12, 2007
When I was a kid my dad took me and my brother and sisters to every Civil War battlefield there is. Back then we complained quite a bit (my sister even threatens her own two children with a visit to a battlefield if they misbehave). I'm now old enough to appreciate the history that happened on this land.
Friday, May 11, 2007
It's hard to resist taking my camera along on Thursdays. It's been fun learning how to shoot pictures of a baby.
At 10:20 tonight I realized I hadn't taken a single picture today. So I pulled out the camera and took this picture of a necklace that was lying on my dresser. I guess this could count as my bedroom picture, since I haven't posted one from there yet.
In my quest to photograph something from each room in my house I have done: kitchen, dining room, bathroom, office and now living room. Seeing things from new angles makes for interesting pictures, so I laid down on the floor to get this shot. I like the lines and angles made by the coffee table, window and ceiling molding and frames, and then the round globe for contrast.
I went to a middle school band concert tonight (the son and daughter of some friends of mine were performing). I thought this was an interesting pair.
