Category: out and about

I’m going with the theme today- on the street where you live. Sooooo. . . here is an easy shot looking down the street where I live:

I took it with my zoom lens using aperture priority, just because I’ve been reading about aperture priority for the class I’ve been taking (which is fabulous, by the way).  I realized that I hadn’t been using exposure compensation with aperture priority- and that is why my photos haven’t been that great using that shooting mode. This one isn’t great either- but that’s due to the fact that I didn’t focus on the nearest flower (nothing to do with my shooting mode).  I like this shot best, however, because there was a car going down the street.

On the road is the theme today- and the constant drizzle made getting out on the road pretty unappealing. I moved one of our bikes into the driveway and sat in the garage to take a quick photo.  My aim was to import the photo into the iPad, edit it in iPhoto, and upload it to Flickr and my blog. Importing it to the iPad was a piece of cake, but I was pretty clueless about editing it in iPhoto.  I played around with it, uploaded it to Flickr, and then tried to do the blog. WordPress wasn’t my best friend today, so I finally threw my hands in the air and am blogging old school- on my laptop.  And since I am on my laptop, I did a few edits in Aperture and Photoshop- I just can’t help myself!

And here is a new and improved version edited later on the iPad with Snapseed!

It’s a potpourri today.  I did a ride-along with my husband on a drive to an out of town courthouse to search for some records for a claim he is handling.  Today’s topic is street photography, and yesterday’s was construction– plus it is Fence Friday. I managed to take photos for all three, but did come to the conclusion, after a short while, that street photography in this area was not particularly safe. I moved to the square in front of the courthouse, where I photographed a little girl playing in the fountain. The midday sun was harsh in all the photos, as you can see. No golden hour here!

There was construction EVERYWHERE- even on the sidewalks.

On the way back home, we stopped so I could get my Friday fence photo. Here is a black and white version . . .

and an HDR one.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! I don’t have anything with a St. Patrick’s Day theme to post, but there is plenty of green in all my photos. I took a quick walk in our neighborhood today, armed this time with a plastic bag to cover the camera in case of a sudden downpour.

Our neighbor’s lavender is beginning to bloom.

The lemon tree on the corner is filled with gorgeous lemons.

I didn’t realize we had cows five minutes from our house!

All in all (to quote Mr. Rogers)it was a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. . .

 

The theme for today’s photo is GRAY! I could have taken a photo of our gray cloudy sky or my husband’s gray hair, but I chose to photograph Luna, my friend Barbara’s young, but gray whiskered shepherd mix.

Isn’t she sweet?

 

 

Spending half the day in a vineyard in St. Helena accompanying my husband on a fire claim  gave me a wealth of photo opportunities. I justified my presence by helping him photograph the remains from the fire.  And then I wandered around the property with my camera- fun! Next time, I would like him to schedule “our” appointments during the golden hour, please! The midday sun was a challenge.

Coincidentally, the topic of the day is “environmental portrait”, a portrait of someone in an environment that tells you something about the person.  I didn’t have the courage to ask one of the workers to pose, but (sneakily!) took this quick photo of a fire investigator through a burned out building.

Of course this blog post would not be complete without a shot of my husband doing what he seems to do most- talking on the phone while walking around the site.