Day 117- Rainy Rerun

It’s packing day- getting ready for our trip to Wyoming!  This week’s assignment in my photography class is shooting an object with another object slightly behind it at different apertures and distances to learn about depth of field.  I hope to do this with my family in Wyoming, but I’m not sure about the level of cooperation I’ll get.  So I’m hedging my bets by shooting flowers before I go.

The weather wasn’t too cooperative this morning- April showers. Between showers, I managed to take all the required shots of my iris (from Day 115) with daisies behind it- and then took a couple different angles for the Flickr group.  Then I looked again at the topic for today- and realized that the challenge was to have your whole photo be in only three colors.

Oh.

So here it is anyway- and I’m aware that there are at least 5 colors in this image.

And I’m aware that Day 115’s photo is very similar- and better- but I need to get back to my to-do list!

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Day 115- Change

Back in my comfort zone- manual settings, macro lens, flower, photo-editing- ahhhhhh!  I am learning SO MUCH in my photo class, but it was a relief today to go back to where I feel competent.  The theme today is CHANGE- and, since this iris just popped out over the weekend, I think it qualifies.

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Day 111- Wild

What a beautiful day in the neighborhood (RIP Mister Rogers. . .) it is today!  The birds and squirrels seem to think so too.  I snapped this one of a squirrel using shutter priority (which is what we are working on in my photo class this week) as he nibbled on the new shoots on our oak tree way up high above my head.  Today’s theme is growing wild in my flickr group, and I thought this little guy was more fun to photograph than weeds.

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Day 107- Desperate Measures

This is one of those days.
I’m uninspired by the topic and unmotivated to do my photo class homework. Lonnie is upstairs in the office with a Dell technician (don’t ask. . .) so I am editing and uploading with the iPad some random macro photos from the backyard.

REALLY random.

So here are some leaves. One looks kind of Google Earth-ish, I think. The other was an experiment using Snapseed ‘s texture feature.

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Day 90- Spring Green

The sunshine finally broke through the clouds this afternoon, bringing beautiful light to what has been gray and dull and turning it green and golden. Photography has not been my focus today, so the afternoon light was such a welcome diversion.  I grabbed my camera and took a few shots of the light shining through the branches of the maytens tree.

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Day 89- One More Week!

My daughter’s family will be here one week from today! Today I am starting the babyproofing- Henry at 15 months is very active and into everything.  I also am getting down some Easter decorations and getting organized for the egg hunt. Today’s Flickr challenge is oval, an easy topic for today.

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Day 85- Shadows

The sun came out and allowed me to shoot some shadows for my Flickr group. I turned it into a black and white, but, since the subject of the photo was black and white, it didn’t make much of a difference. Kind of boring, but that’s it for today.  In another week and a half I will have some (very cute) living subjects for my camera to focus on- can’t wait!!!

 

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Day 69- Backyard Paparazzi

This was one of those days where I just took a few moments to wander through my backyard with my zoom lens- just following the light.

Looking up into our laurel tree. . .

 

The azaleas are in full bloom. I resisted my urge to crop this photo.

 

The next two are of our deck railings. I’m submitting the black and white for Fence Friday.  Railings are a kind of fence, right?

 

 

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Day 65- Macro Attack

Just because it’s Monday, I walked around the yard with my 85mm looking for something small to shoot up close. I noticed our pink breath of heaven plants are blooming, so took a couple photos of their tiny flowers.

When I came in the house, I randomly took a photo of the head of my mother’s tiny doll from her childhood- and decided that her dreamy look (my daughter says nightmarish. . .) expression qualifies this as the photo of the day for my Flickr group’s Dream theme.

This was textured with Kim Klassen’s bent edges.

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Day 62- Down to Earth

Today’s topic is earth, wind, OR fire. I made things easy for myself- and took a shot of the ground outside.

And here’s a bonus photo from yesterday- my husband checking out my friend, Carol’s iPad, as her Amazon parrot, Bobo gazed lovingly in his direction.  Lonnie paid no attention to her, but she was absolutely besotted!

BTW, I finally updated my “about” page for 2012, including a photo taken of me by Carol yesterday. You can check it out by clicking on about in the top right corner of this page.

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Day 60- Oh

As is my habit, I check my email from bed with my phone when I wake up.  If I forgot to check the Flickr topic the night before, I go to my contacts in my flickr app and look at the latest photo from my contact who lives in Australia to see what the topic is, since she usually has it posted first thing. Today it was called “Lit Up”- so I cleverly took this photo of my backup drive- and thought I was done for the day. I have a lot going on today- and want to have my blog and Flickr photo DONE!

However, in my not completely awake state, I didn’t realize that my Flickr friend’s photo (a nighttime lights on water scene) was TITLED “Lit Up”- the actual topic today is horizon.  Oh.

Well- I could do that! So I stepped out on our front porch. The Bay Area finally had a decent bit of rain last night- and this is today’s view from the porch. Done!

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