Day 27 – Tangled Tree and a Kitteh

I wanted to share this with you. I took this photo in the same field where I shot the wagon wheel. Behind the wagon wheel (lower left of this photo) there is a tree with a wheel that, as the tree has grown, has been absorbed into the tree itself. One of these days I’m going to sneak through the barbed wire to get a really good look at it.

Normally Maya is a bit aloof but every now and then she wants to hang out and tonight was one of those nights. She paused on the end table and I was able to snap quite a few of her lit only by the table lamp. She looks so sweet and soft.

Day 26 – Froggie is in love

Doesn’t he look like he is head over heels? But she appears to want nothing of it.

I collect frogs and some of them have migrated to my office, so I decided to play with a couple of them today. I made a tiny light studio in my office to. I leaned a sheet of white paper in the window sill so that it provided backdrop and floor and had some fun. Daylight through my west-facing office window (camera right) provided the majority of the light (office lights were on as well). It was cloudy so there were no harsh shadows.

Day 25 – Shapes

Aside from commuting, work, and lunch with my daughter, rather than taking pictures, I spent a lot of my “free” time today on a quest . Our assignment last night was to construct or buy a sphere, a cube, and a cylinder. After looking at my meager supplies at home, and determining that I only have so many hours in the day, I realized I was going to have to go out and find these objects. I went to the craft store. I went to the hardware store. I looked in Babies-R-Us. Finally, I got the brilliant idea to stop at our local Parent-Teacher store. I’ve stopped there when I’ve needed odd things that are usually reserved for the classroom. And Eureka! I found what I was looking for. These will be used in learning how to light a subject. I need to paint them white (and in fact, the first coat is drying as I type). As a result, this is my 365 photo for the day. Tomorrow is another day!

Day 24 – Wagon Wheel

Believe it or not, this is about a block away from where I work! I found some other intriguing stuff there too, so I’ll have to go back and shoot again. On side note, I started my lighting class tonight. It’s going to be a lot of work, but I am really looking forward to learning a lot.

I’m making a switch

I decided to switch out two photographs of the six I chose for my lighting class. Instead of Buddy and the Christmas tree photo, I went back to my Intro to Digital Photography class and pulled one photo each from Project 3 (Narrative) and my final project, Day and Night (you can see the series here). The first is my husband and me (Project 3), and the second is the Tracy Clark hydroelectric power station on I-80 (Final Project).

Day 23 – Snow Flowers

We woke to some much-needed snow. Again, it didn’t last, but it was a much healthier dump (and much wetter) than the last storm that came through. I took these just as I was leaving for work this morning. We let our wild flowers just stay long after they’ve lost their petals. I see beauty in every phase of their brief lives.

Six Photographs

I’m starting a new photography class at UNR on Tuesday. This is the Photographic Lighting class and I’m really looking forward to it. The instructor sent us an email today telling us to bring six of our best photographs to our first session to share with the class. Here is what I’ve chosen. Regular readers will recognize that four of them come from my 365 project.

Cross-posted at Blue Lyon

Day 22 – Withered Vine

We have a grape-vine that crawls over the latticed roof of our deck. This portion of vine was hanging over the far corner of the deck and I took several shots, changing the exposure with each try. While the sky is completely blown out in this photograph, I actually like it best of all of because it shows light through the leaves and emphasizes the curves and shadows of the vine. It almost has a studio lighting quality to it.