28-135mm lens @ 44mm, f/25, 1/200 with fill flash, ISO 320
28-135mm lens @ 95mm, f/5.6, 1/60, ISO 400 with flash
18-55mm lens @ 40mm, f/5.0, 1/50, ISO 640
18-55mm lens @ 55mm, f/5.6, 1/60, ISO 600
18-55mm lens @ 42mm, f/7.1, 1/100, ISO 200
18-55mm lens @ 55mm, f/5.6, 1/15, ISO 800
18-55mm lens @ 55mm, f/5.6, 0.4sec, ISO 800 
18-55mm lens @ 47mm, f/5.6, 1/6, ISO 800 
My husband's dog, Striker, officially lives with his parents, but once in a while he comes to stay with us for the weekend. Striker seems to be moping here, which he usually does when he doesn't get enough attention. Silly dog.
Yesterday was seriously lacking inspirational material for me. I tried. Hard. And it just wasn't happening. Sometimes I would see "something" and grab my camera, and once I checked out the photo, it just didn't look the same as it did in my head. I'm not sure if that was due to my lack of experience or just delusions in my head, but regardless, I was worried I might have to go to bed picture-less. I finally snapped this photo while I was making myself some tea, and decided that it would have to do for the day's photo. Not my best but it will do.
I was hungry. There was cheese. There was wine. Oh, yes.... had to have wine. 'Nuff said.
I don't have any personal stories to attach to this photo. Instead, I will just briefly comment on the editing I did to my photo to achieve the final result. These flowers were initially pure white, but I played with the hue and saturation of the flowers and added a textured layer to make the photo (hopefully) look a little more aged. The pure white flowers were just as pretty as they were, but I figured I would try something different this time around.
It has finally happened. I found a golf ball in my backyard.
I went around behind our fence to look for some inspiration for today's photo, and just as I was bending down to take a photo of some green daffodil buds (couldn't believe they were poking through the winter ground!).... there it was. I suppose it might help explain the situation if you knew that our backyard looks out onto the 18th fairway of a golf course. What is funny about finding this ball is that I can't tell you how many times people have asked us if anyone has hit golf balls into our yard by accident and they are always amazed when we tell them no. We always figured it was pretty much impossible for that to happen since a golfer would have to have made the worst shot in history to do so.
But today, someone (who should seriously consider giving up golfing) proved me wrong.
P.S. : On a side note, I finally got around to redesigning my "watermark." Any thoughts/comments/suggestions? :)
What do you photograph on a dreary, rainy day in January? Water. Somewhere. Somehow. I was trying to figure out what to do when I noticed all the water drops collecting on a bench on our back deck - bingo! My husband laughed at me as I crouched on a tarp and towel on my back deck (so as not to get wet) to get just the right angle and zoom of these water droplets. I may have looked silly taking this picture, but it was well worth the effort. :-)
While I was running some errands in Target, I decided to stroll by the shoe section (yes, one of my many addictions) and AAAAAAH!!! Flip flops! Right near the bathing suits.... UGH. Seriously, it is freakin' freezing outside, Valentine's Day isn't even here yet, but as fast as the Christmas decorations come down, the bathing suits and flip flops come out. Way too early for me to being see this. Although I will admit I was energized by the bright summery colors, hence the picture here. I did a bit of editing to make the background B&W and bring out the vibrant colors, and in the process learned a bit more about some features of my photo editing software. But seriously.... way too early for these to be in the store.
I was having a bit of a difficult time finding some inspiration today. I tried photographing a few things and brought my camera around with me all day, but nothing was jumping out at me. So my last ditch effort was to try a night sky shot. I have been wanting to try this at some point anyways, so I figured I would give it a shot (no pun intended). I'm happy with how my first effort turned out, but learned some new things about shooting night skies that I will have to incorporate on my next attempt. I will definitely be trying this again to see if I can improve on it.
My book club had their monthly meeting tonight at Panera. I had every intention of taking my photo of the day there, but I had a difficult time taking a photo once I was inside Panera with all the people. I've realized that I am quite self-concious about my camera in public... something I definitely need to work on. So instead I chickened out and took an outside night-shot. Maybe I'll work up the courage to take something different at next month's meeting.
No special story behind this image... I wasn't doing shots of Crown Royal before becoming "inspired". :-) I just wanted to play with light and thought using the bottle, crystal wine dish, and silver bar shaker would produce some pretty effects.
Today I made a trip to BORDERS book store to check out some travel books for our upcoming vacation. If all goes well, we hope to be taking a trip to Germany and Austria this May, so I thought I would showcase all the wonderful travel books I spent time looking through.
Our friends gathered together last night at a sports bar to watch the first round of NFL playoff games. Many people were bedecked in their jerseys and rooting on their teams. Some of those teams did well, and some, like the Eagles in this picture, did not. I was actually quite frustrated with my photos from last night due to the low level of lighting in the bar. I didn't want to use a flash, and of course there was no tripod, but my camera wanted to set the exposure levels at 1/2sec, so most of my images turned out blurry. Any tips or suggestions that I should have tried?
This image reflects my love of crossword puzzles, or at least my never-ending quest to complete one... without cheating! :-) This one almost made it....
Just a quick comment... I love bears. Teddy bears to be more specific. Don't know why I do... I just do. So expect to see various shots of bears during my project...
My husband, Mark (on right) loves the guitar. I love it, too, when it's at a reasonable volume... which is practically never. But I digress... so Mark invites friends over on occasion to "jam" with, and I manged to sneak this photo of them while they were playing at our house. I am disappointed that the photo is blurry, but I didn't have much opportunity to take a picture without them knowing about it, so this is what I ended up with.
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