Its photo of the day

Its kind of late and I'm more than kind of tired.

Photo of the day:

Runner up:

Family

Today I spent the day with my sister Katie and her family because its my mom's birthday. We went shopping and then to my niece Grace's (my sister Katie's daughter) christmas play that was rescheduled. The play was so good. It was simple and pretty short, maybe 30 minutes but it was really nice and all the kids did an amazing job. Right after the play was over my sister was holding her other daughter hannah and it was such a sweet moment so I told them to look at me and I snapped this shot. You might remember both of them from my photo of the day this past wednesday, originally this fact had deterred me from choosing this photo but it was just too good to pass up.

I've decided that I am really over winter, and that the only reason I thought I liked it was because of the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons. I wish the cold weather would go away because it makes me a bit mopey, I tend to want to curl up in a ball and avoid the world. Not a good thing to do so I'm trying to fight through it and hold out for Spring. Well enough random musing, have a great night and a great Monday tomorrow!

Photo of the day

I spent the entire day wandering around Alexandria Va. on a photo adventure with my Best Friend Mandy, so naturally my photo of the day is of her. Just a little more insight into my life. It was SO cold, it definitely felt like winter. When we first went out we were like "Oh its not that bad, everyone was just over reacting" and then we were out there for more than 10 minutes and we were Freezing! I'm sure I'll be posting more photos from the day in a week or so. But for now here's my photo of the day:



Have a great night.

Photo of the Day

My photo of the day would probably be a lot better if I had taken photos this morning of the snow OR if I had remembered to bring a memory card with my to my friend Lindsay's birthday party, but because I was a flake and didn't, my dslr sat on my desk all day and then in a chair the whole night, longing no doubt to take a fabulous photograph. What this leaves me with is exhaustion and a lack of creativity and thus a mediocre photo of the day. Have a good night.

p.s. Tomorrow's (Saturday's) photo hopefully be substantially better, because Mandy and I are going on a photo adventure :-)

photo of the day number 4

Today I thought I'd give a little perspective with my photo of the day today, so these 2 photos (the photo of the day and the runner up) are both my view/perspective when I wake up. So you get to see what I see. Enjoy!

Photo of the day:

the runner up:

Day 03- Wordless Wednesday

Day 2- Photo of the day

Today I was able to have coffee with my best friend after work. It was a spur of the moment thing and I am certainly glad for it. It was great to sit and chat and catch up while drinking some coffee. I took some photos while we were there to use for my photo of the day today because it definitely fits the bill for this photo week challenge of being a sneak peak into my life. So, I present to you, my loyal readers (all 2 of you :-) ) my photo of the day, along with 3 other photos from the event. Have a great night!

Day 01 of 07

As I mentioned earlier, this week of daily photos will all be a sneak peak into my life. Today's photograph is of my message board at my desk, it has alot of stuff that inspires me on it and a lot of reminders for myself. I did not realize how personal this week of photos would be when I thought the idea up, but it kind of is. Its not just a sneak peak into what I see day to day, but its actually a bit of a window into my world/mind and thats a bit personal. Its odd, and makes me feel a bit vulnerable.

Here is my photo of the day:

And the Runner up:

Its back

I've made the decision to bring back the photo of the day for the week, so from now until sunday check the blog in the evenings to see a little sneak peak into my life. I contimplated doing another month long photo challenge but opted out so as not to put too much pressure on myself when I plan to start a few projects and do a few portrait sessions in the next month. Well check back later tonight for today's photo of the day post. :-)

Day 031 The End of the Photo Month Challenge

Today is December 14th, the last day of the photo month challenge. I don't think it could have come at a better time. Previously I thought everything in my life was difficult, well man was I wrong, because its nothing compared to whats been piled on top of that, but I'll get thru, not on my own strength, but I never did expect mine to get me anywhere. So enjoy the last photo of the day in the Photo Month Challenge.

Day 030

Its day 30 of the Photo Month Challenge and I only have one more day to go. It feels like I've been doing this for longer than 30 days and it feels wierd to think that I won't have to do this on Tuesday. A little bittersweet. I'm proud of myself for actually getting my photo of the day done before dinner though.

If you've followed my blog for awhile you probably know that I really like TTV photography, and that I dabble a bit with it using a duaflex II. I L-O-V-E this camera. I am half tempted to go purchase film for it and go around using it as a normal camera. I love the way this camera looks, how it feels, the mechanics of it, its just such an amaizng thing. In the future I kind of want to collect other vintage cameras as well and display them on a cool bookcase and then just pick them up and use them when I want. This probably seems kind of lame, but that doesn't really bother me. :-) For a few days I've been contemplating doing a portrait of my duaflex but haven't liked any of the test shots I've taken of it. Today I decided to commit and take photos of it until I got one I liked.

runner up:

Day 029

I'm too tired to think about something interesting to write. The same rationale applies to the time today as did yesterday. Have a good night:

Photo of the day:

Day 028

You might be thinking that I missed day 28, but you'd be wrong. :-) See, I haven't gone to sleep yet and thus this still counts as Friday 12/11 for me so even though its 3 and half hours late, its still on day 28. There, my conscience is clear. I would have posted my photo of the day earlier, but I spent the evening out with some wonderful friends, and we went to Nando's in Chinatown and then to see Invictus. It was a lot of fun, especially because my friend Lindsay is from South Africa and will actually be going back home in a few weeks. It was a totally worthwhile evening, that greatly improved my stressful day.

My photo of the day today, feels unoriginal for me but I was in need of something so here it is:

Day 027 the end is near

Its day 27 in this journey called the Photo Month Challenge, only a few more posts left. I have mixed feelings about the end of this, part of me is relieved that its almost over and the pressure will soon be off, but another part of me will miss the daily frantic searching for something to photograph for the blog. Hopefully, I will take something from this and use it to be a better photographer and a more creative person, and hopefully a better, more consistent blogger. :-) I was a terrible blogger before this challenge, I struggled to post monthly.

Today I decided to try something a little different for my photo of the day. I haven't done any TTV for my photos of the day and I realived thats kind of stupid of me. I love TTV, and have alot of fun looking through the viewfinder of my duaflex II. So, today its TTV all the way! With a little Christmas mixed in, since I'm pretty jazzed its the holiday season. Have a great night!

Day 025

Its day 25 of the Photo Month Challenge. Today's photo is from my mom award ceremony at work, its nothing fancy because it was very dimly lit in the auditorium. Here ya go:

Day 024

This morning I decided that I would start my day by taking my photo of the day. I actually am not the biggest fan of this one, but I tried really hard to get a good one and this is what I have. Here ya go:

Day 023

So I spent the entire afternoon today shopping with my Mom and Aunt. It was so much fun! I have like 3/4 of my Christmas shopping complete now, which is pretty impressive for me, I usually procrastinate until the 20th to even start. I had planned on spending the day outside photographing everything but, when it caim down to it this was more important, so my photo of the day is of the view from my back door this morning.

Have a great night!

Day 022 Winter Wonderland

I love snow, but was disappointed that it ruined the plans I'd had for the day. I decided to make the most of my ruined day and enjoy the snow. Here's my photo of the day:

Day 021 is Frantic Friday

Its Frantic Friday! Completely unintentionally, but after having a massively rough day I forgot about my photo of the day until late. What that means, frantically attempting to get a photo of the day. So, with less than 10 minutes to spare I will present you with a photo of the day. Its not really my favorite photograph but its a photograph all the same. Enjoy! And look forward to a preview of the Mandy + Joe Christmas photos tomorrow morning. Get excited! :-)

Day 020

So honestly, yesturday's photo was pretty mediocre, but with the amount of energy I had, I'm happy I got a photo of the day at all. It fit in with the series I've been working on but I will probably re-do that theme after christmas when I have more time and a sweeter camera.

So far, I've had a lot of fun with this photo of the day thing. Its really stretched me. For another 10 days, I don't have the option of being lazy and uncreative, not unless I want to fail at this challenge. Yeah, my photos haven't all been good, or all that creative or inspired, but I have to think creatively to produce them. I have to come up with an idea, or see something I want to capture, I have to set it up or find it, I have to take a bunch of photos of it from different angles with different settings, and then I have to to edit them. Each photo of the day has about 20 "unsuccessful" photos behind it that all took at least 30 minutes of editing, whether or not I keep any of the editing choices is irrelevant. I've gone through that process pretty much every day for the last 20 days. It takes creative thought in the very least. I've had to continually remind myself of this, because most days I feel uterly uncreative. Expressing myself through art has always been a really relaxing and de-stressing process even though I'm rarely happy with the end product. Its just that the process is rejuvenating to me. For awhile I've felt discouraged and discontent with the art I create and had let that stop me from taking part in it, but this project has forced me back into and I am so glad for it. Its made me re-appreciate all the small things I enjoy, all the details that make my life full and rich. Its so easy to forget those things.

Well, enough with that little rant, and on to Today's photo. Today's photo of the day also fits in with the last few days, in that it has supplies from another kind of art.