January 17

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January 3

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October 11 - 263/365

50mm lens, f/3.5, 1/400, ISO 200

So I'm sure if you have been following along, you've noticed a big gap in the days/dates associated with my photos. I have fallen off the 365-wagon, again. Big time. I totally burned out, and when I was managing to get a photo taken, I wasn't happy with what I was getting. So I stopped for a bit. While I had always wanted to get through this project from start to finish, I realized that the real goal for me was to expand my skills and practice taking photos. So I've decided to keep going, but I will just keep taking photos past the end of the year until I reach that "365" mark. But for now, I'm back on the wagon and will hopefully hold on for the rest of the ride!

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September 17 - 260/365

50mm lens, f/5.6, 1/10, ISO 800

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June 16 - 167/365

28-135mm lens @ 125mm, f/5.6, 1/60, ISO 800

While my husband was playing guitar tonight, I snatched on of his music books to take a quick shot. I think this was a Metallica song, but can't remember since I'm delinquent in my postings. :-P

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April 29 - 119/365

28-135mm lens @ 135mm, f/36, 15sec, ISO 100

I don't know where this idea came from, but I thought it would be fun to try and capture time. I set my camera on the kitchen table, zoomed in as far as I could, set a very low ISO and looooong exposure to capture the second hand of my watch moving. It's a little hard to see all 15 marks left by the second hand, but they are there if you look close enough. A fun thing to try.

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March 3 - 62/365

28-135mm lens @ 135mm, f/5.6, 1/50, ISO 800

Lacking inspiration tonight. The dinner menu included homemade pizza [so yummy...] and of course you can't have pizza without beer. Well, you can, but it's not the same. :-) And one of my favorite beers is Yuengling, manufactured in Pennsylvania at America's oldest brewery. To make the image a bit more interesting, I added a little bit of texture, adjusted the coloring for a warmer feel [counter top was off-white] and added a lite vignette.

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February 24 - 55/365

28-135 lens @ 105mm, f/5.6, 1/30, ISO 1600

I believe I mentioned very early into my project that I like bears when I posted a picture of a stuffed bear paw on Day 4. As a result, I have a number of little bear decorations around my house. Not too many so that my husband feels surrounded by teddy bears, but just a few that it adds a little of my personality to the house. Today's photo is a macro shot of a little bear decoration located in our downstairs powder room. How can you not go for bears with such cute little faces like this one? :-)

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February 13 - 44/365

28-135mm lens @ 120mm, f/5.6, 1/13, ISO 800

Today was one of those "I wish I had my camera with me..." days. My husband and I went out with some friends tonight, and while I knew there would be some good photo ops where we were going, it was also one of those situations where you weren't sure you really wanted to be stuck carrying a camera around with you all night. So I reluctantly left the camera at home, missed some cool shots, and ended up taking this photo of a warm fuzzy winter accessory when I got home. If my cell phone had a better camera, maybe I would have used that, but as it was, I had nothing. What do you do when you are unsure about whether to bring a camera with you somewhere?

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February 3 - 34/365

28-135mm lens @ 135mm, f/9.9, 1/400, ISO 200

As you may have guessed, we got more snow last night. Everything outside looked so beautiful this morning - all the trees looked "fluffier" and the ground was covered in white again. My mission this morning was to work on some macro techniques. My images didn't quite turn out as I had hoped, but I was able to shoot on full manual mode again, and I think I learned a bit more about the macro capabilities of my lenses in the process [always good to learn something new!]. Unfortunately, it also added more items to my ever-growing wish list of lenses/accessories! We are supposed to get a LOT more snow again this weekend, so there might be some more opportunities for me to practice some snow-related macro shots again soon.

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January 26 - 26/365

18-55mm lens @ 55mm, f/5.6, 1/15, ISO 800

These poor tools have been sitting out for a while... tried to fix something in the house... didn't work. Never got them put away. Wish my husband and I were better with these things. :-)

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