2012-01-08

This painting was on the wall right next to our table at lunch today. I was fascinated by the dimensionality of the paint. It was so textural, it was all I could do not to reach out and touch it. So, I photographed it instead with the macro setting on my point and shoot camera.

2009-09-06

A few years ago, I bought a basketball-ish size glass fishbowl looking thing and a pillar candle for the center of it. It reminds me of the hurricane my grandmother used to keep on her kitchen table. I try to keep the bottom of it full of something roughly seasonal, though I admit that I am not so great at keeping them changing. These stars have been in there since July, but I thought they were okay to keep in there for most of the summer. I liked the way the light sparked off the holographic surfaces.

2009-05-25

I can't tell you how many different bubbles I chases around outside trying to get this shot. By the time I got over to them, got it in focus, and was ready to push the button, the bubble usually popped. Still not the best shot, but it's the best one I took.

2009-04-22

Happy Earth Day! In honor of Earth day, we went on a walk after dinner today. (It was actually a coincidence, but that sounded better! LOL) I spotted these tiny little pine cones on our route. They were about the size of a nickel (21 mm), and I liked the way the light hit them.

2009-04-16

My poor little camera! It took two years, but sometime while we were gone to Disney, I managed to wear off the symbols on the control ring on the back of my Canon Elph. I'm sure all the sunscreen and stuff didn't help. Good thing I practically have the symbol locations and functions memorized.

2009-04-08

I missed another day. I was so happy that I got every single day in March, I thought I was over the hump, so to speak, but here is another blank day. I even thought to myself "you still need to take a picture today," but I was so tired I just crashed and never actually did it. This is a shot from yesterday. Maybe skipping today was unconscious? The tire problem was more characteristic of the day, but I really loved this shot (cropped some), and it was hard to choose. Now I get to use it. Would still have preferred taking one today, though. Oh well. Note the pollen all over the petals on the right. Welcome to Atlanta!

March 2009 Mosaic

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Another month in the books, and I actually managed not to miss a day, woo-hoo! Here are the fill photos for this month.



One of the best reasons to go to Olive Garden, extra olives on the salad! How can they call themselves Olive Garden when they only put two on the salad unless you ask otherwise? This time, our waiter brought me a whole little bowl full. YUM!



Not quite the picture I was after, but I actually like it. I intended to get the center flower in focus, but it was hard with the low light, plus I was holding the camera above my head. I was annoyed at first, but it has grown on me since, and I like how it turned out.



It looks so innocent, doesn't it? One little pine pollen pod, and this one still intact (probably because it was wet when it fell). But put millions and millions of these things together, and the whole city turns yellow. It's been raining more days than not lately, so it hasn't been too bad, but it's coming. No wonder Atlanta is the allergy capitol of the world.



I told you I would be taking a picture of this tree each season. The color of the flowers disappeared into the roof color, so I tried to get it against the other trees instead. Not thrilled with it, but it will do for the spring photo. For reference, here is the winter version.

2009-03-03

This is the scissor fob that my friend Shalini made for me. I designed it and provided the beads, and she put it together for me. It arrived a few days ago, but I have been remiss in taking a photo and publicly thanking her for doing this for me. You can read the story of how and why this fob came to be on my regular blog tomorrow morning.

February 2009 Mosaic

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Wow, another month has flown by! And yes, I missed one day, again. And yes, I haven't been quite as good about uploading daily. But that's okay, because I'm still going. Here are the fill photos with commentary.



This is the finger prick mark from going to the doctor the previous day. I don't know what the deal was, but that little sucker hurt for nearly 2 weeks!



My first attempt at a sunset photo. Not too bad, I don't think.



I thought this was going to be the photo I posted from when I went to the Fox Theatre, but I liked the exterior night shot better. Not only is the sign all classic and glitzy, but I waited until they had the Cleopatra add running on the multicolor screen below.



Luke is still taking pictures occasionally with his camera, but I think the novelty has worn off. I don't think it has left the house in over a week now. I do hope he will take some while we're gone to Disney. I think it would be really interesting to see it from his perspective.



This is the picture I intended to post from Valentine's Day, but as I mentioned with the picture I actually posted, this isn't really what I'll remember from that day. Still, it is more representative of the day, so I included it as a fill shot.



It finally rained some in February, which was nice (though it does make going out and about less fun). I was trying to get artsy with the water drops. I'm still pretty happy with how it came out.



On laundry day, we tend to have various piles of clothes laying around the house. What is the easiest way to tell which piles are clean and which are dirty? If a cat is laying on them, they're freshly washed and dried. Tigger was just helping us remember that we had already washed these jeans.

2009-02-26

I had never noticed this moss on the curb at Luke's school before today. It rained last night for the first time in ages, so I imagine it was much greener today than usual, both from a good drink of water and from having some of the grime washed off (the curb is in the parking lot). I wish I had something in the picture for scale. The "puff" is about an inch high.

2009-01-26

Okay, as you may have guessed, I am a little obsessed with the macro function on my camera. I just think it is so cool! (Maybe I should make macro its own label.) It is also the only way I can get any reasonable depth of field with the settings on my little Elph; there is no manual f-stop adjustment on it. Any guesses what this is? It is looking down inside an Aquafina bottle that is sitting on something red. The lens is nearly touching the outside of the bottle looking in from just above the label. I just thought the webbing pattern looked really interesting refracting the light from behind me and the red from underneath. I did tweak the contrast some, but other than that, it is completely unretouched.

2009-01-24

We gave Luke his very own camera today. He absolutely loves it! But as I expected, he is having trouble keeping his fingers away from the lens. He is getting better, though there are still digits in some of his photos. I thought he had actually managed not to touch the front, but apparently I was wrong. This is what I saw when I checked it out after we got home. Still, only 2 smudges. Not too bad, I don't think, for a 4-year-old handling his first camera. I just need to remember to take a lens cloth with me from now on. Probably not a bad practice to have anyway.

2009-01-23

Sweet tea, the Nectar of the Gods as far as we Southerners are concerned. The ultimate irony is that you virtually cannot find a decent glass of the stuff anywhere in the metro-Atlanta area, particularly inside the perimeter. The best and most consistent sweet tea we have found? The Golden Corral on Stone Mountain Highway in Snellville (not too far past the Big Rock going east). DH and I can down a whole pitcher between the two of us, though half the pitcher is, of course, ice.

2009-01-10

This is not at all the photo I expected to be posting today. I took a few of Luke this morning sporting a Star Wars sticker, thinking I would talk about the magical power of stickers. (I also needed to fulfill a different committment to take a picture of Luke every week for my 101 Things in 1001 Days.) I took some in front of and inside Artuzzi's, a local pizza chain that we frequent. After all, part of the point of Project 365 is to document "the everyday," and while we may not eat there daily, we are there usually more than once a month. One of the interior shots even turned out quite well, and I thought "oh, that was it, today's POD" (for "photo of the day," to borrow Patti's nomenclature). Then just before we left, the sun broke through the clouds and caught the curves of the crushed pepper flake shaker just so, and I thought "that might make an interesting shot." Boy, did it! When flipping through all the photos I took today, this was the clear standout, so here it is.

2009-01-05

One of the tips for sticking with Project 365 is to take a photo that encapsulates your day. Monday, January 5, 2009, was the day of the dead modem. I work from home, and I require internet access, so that was a rather big problem. We'd already unplugged for 10 minutes and plugged it back in, per Comcast's instructions, and it still hadn't worked. We set up a service call for Tuesday, but in the meantime, we tried to swap it at a Comcast payment center for a functional one. None of the payment centers had functional modems to swap for, though, so we brought ours back home. Just before bed, we plugged it back in and hooked it back up so that the tech could see that it wasn't working. Only it was! DH, out of habit, picked up his laptop to check his fantasy teams, and clicked the internet, which came up just fine. We were just baffled. Maybe it just wanted a vacation day and a car trip. Anyway, it is working now. Long live the modem!