Waking up to an unexpected snowfall was a beautiful way to greet the last day of 2009.
Boys and their toys
December 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Someone I know bought an actual, being-decommissioned-by-the-fire-company, fire truck for Christmas. This little guy, who is absolutely enamored of everything fireman related, was awestruck. I don’t think he believed this was a fire truck he could play on.
Direction
December 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Day 28 of 50
This was day 28 of my 50-50-50 project, before it was woefully abandoned. I love the texture and shading in this photo. I never realized how attractive the floor of a parking garage could be.
UNCLE!
December 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I concede defeat, sort of. My 50-50-50 got the better of me, and I have given myself permission to officially abandon it. While I am disappointed that I didn’t complete the project as I intended, I am very glad I gave it a try. I definitely achieved my primary goal, which was to make sure I stayed engaged with photography without the structure of class assignments. I am willing to cut myself a little slack with the execution. Besides, how much does anyone really want to see me documenting my plumbing problems for my landlord? And I have to admit, that has been dominating my life much too much lately. But really, 24 days of complaints before the plumber came out, and then the problem was fixed in less than an hour? I digress…project attempted, project abandoned, mea culpa. I think I’ll try again though next year, maybe a project on orange things, or things with fur….I am taking suggestions….Bueller…Bueller…
Creatures in trees
December 14, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Day 25 of 50
I started out the day trying to take pictures of some squirrels in the trees outside my house for my 50-50-50 project. They were not happy with my presence, as I was apparently standing in prime nut gathering territory. Given that it was freezing outside, I gave up pretty easily, and wasn’t too happy with my results.
However, later that day I headed to the Conowingo Dam to check out the eagles and herons that winter there – very cool. Haven’t had time to process all the pictures yet, but am pretty happy with how they turned out, despite my lack of super-telephoto lenses. I made due with my 55-250 lens, though I was a bit envious of the guys carrying around a $5,000 camera body with a $6,000 lens attached. I think that is more than my car is currently worth (but at least the car is paid for)!
Eagle in flight
Day 24
December 10, 2009 By
Day 24 aka proof for my landlord that there is in fact a drainage problem in the basement
