Monday: pens

Once again, I was stuck without a picture for the day.  I know I shouldn't have excuses for not taking pictures, but I really am very busy and don't have time to even get my camera out all day.  For this picture, I had just gotten back from scrapbooking and I had all of my supplies out, so I decided to take this photo of all of my colorful pens.

Sunday: mini scarecrows

I saw these little scarecrows in Kevin's mom's garden and I just thought they were so adorable, so I took a few photos of them.

Saturday: goat

We went to a Christmas walk where they had shops open, lots of cookies, and a whole bunch of random things.  We thought there was going to be reindeer, so we got real excited and made the extra trek to go see them because, of course, I wanted to get pictures of the reindeer.  It turned out though, that instead of a reindeer, they had a petting zoo with goats, a llama, sheep, and a buffalo- type thing.  They were just as fun to take pictures of, but very hard because I couldn't get them to look at me!  

Friday: dvds

When I got off work on Friday night, I was so tired and just wanted to lie down, so this is another picture taken inside my house.  It's interesting how creative you have to be to keep taking pictures in the same area, like for me, inside my house!  Who knows what you will come up with when you're in such an uninteresting place.

Thursday: headlights zooming by

Whenever I walk my dog, he enjoys sitting at the end of the street and watching the cars go by.  I have always been interested in night photography and experimenting with it, so when my dog sat down to watch the cars, I decided to sit down with him and take some photos of the cars going by.  I love the look of moving objects at night, especially the look of moving lights, so I played around and took some photos of the cars and their headlights driving by.  It would have probably turned out better with my tripod, but still cool nonetheless

Wednesday: broken fence

I noticed this fence at my mom's house when I went over there the other day.  Kinda creepy.

Tuesday: m&ms

I couldn't really find anything to take a picture of for the day, so at the last minute, I decided to take a picture of the M&Ms bag that was sitting on my kitchen counter.  It is such a random thing, but this is actually one of my favorite pictures I have taken for this project!  

Monday: making cupcakes

Kevin was real disappointed that he never got to blow out candles for his birthday, so on the night of his birthday, I decided to make him cupcakes.  My sister helped me mix the ingredients and so I took some photos of her hands mixing in action.  After mixing, baking, icing, and sprinkling, the cupcakes turned out delicious! 

Sunday: eerie tree

Kevin and I were using my dad's truck to move the rest of the stuff out of my house and after we dropped the truck back off at his work, I saw this tree.  I was so mad that I didn't have my camera because it was such a scary looking tree!  Luckily though, (or not so lucky I guess), Kevin forgot his car keys at home, so we couldn't switch cars.  So, we ended up having to take the truck back home to get the keys and then come back.  When we got home, I grabbed my camera and got a second chance to get a picture of the tree.  The branches are so creepy looking and it even had creepy lighting on it!

Saturday: bridge reflection

I went downtown on Saturday to take some pictures for my thesis.  For thesis, I am taking pictures of the lines and textures of the city, so while taking some bridge pictures, I veered off track a little bit and instead of getting the texture of the metal on the bridge, I got this cool reflection of the bridge on the water.

wall sconce

Every time I leave the office and wait for the elevator, I notice these wall sconces and how the light shines out of them.  I think it looks really cool.  Today, I decided to photograph one of them and I actually really like how the picture turned out.  It accentuates the light that comes out of the sconce, which is the reason why I think they are so cool.

Thursday: wheels & cheese

I don't really have much to say about this one other than it was my dinner for the night.  I don't cook, so when I'm home alone, anything microwavable will do!  This particular night, it happened to be the wheels & cheese dinner. I like this photo because I like the detail of the close up and I like the contrast of the fork with the yellow pasta.

Wednesday: Joey

I think being a pet photographer would be really fun, but also really hard!  It is extremely hard to get a dog to look at you when you take their picture, so I admire photographers who can not only get the pet to look at them in their photos, but also even sit still enough to sometimes get dressed up and everything!  I have been practicing taking pet photos every night of my dog.  I have been getting some pretty decent ones, actually.  I love this one because he looked at me just exactly at the right moment and smiled!  He's such a cutie :)

Tuesday: buttons

This project is really hard when you're as busy as I am!  It's hard to even take a second to find a good photo opportunity.  This week I really struggled because I was really busy with school and work and stuff.  Obviously, as you can tell, I haven't posted in a while because of this!  Tuesday's photo is a close up of my button collection.  I don't actually collect buttons, but I have tons of them due to my hobby of scrapbooking.  I definitely think this picture would have looked better if I dumped out all of the buttons on the table, but at the time, I didn't feel like making a mess and spilling them everywhere.  Maybe I'll do another picture like that another day.

Monday: toothbrushes

I have no idea why I took this picture.  It was getting late and as I was about to brush my teeth, I decided that it would be cool to try and work some close-up shallow depth of field pictures of toothbrushes.  It was harder than I thought it would be.  This was actually the first one I ended up taking and I liked it the best out of all of them because I like how the toothbrushes are off center and both heads of them are in focus, while the rest is not.

blooming flowers

Despite the fact that we're full into fall, Kevin and I just noticed today that there were some really pretty pink flowers blooming outside of our bedroom window.  I love taking close up photos of flowers, so I thought this would be a good opportunity to do that, since I probably won't be seeing anymore flowers until next spring!

Saturday: eerie halloween night

It was getting to be late to take my picture for the day, so I decided to go outside and take some night shots.  I at first took some photos of the setting sun, but the sun was moving so fast, that by the time I got my camera out, the setting sun was almost all the way behind the trees.  Instead, I took a photo of the full moon. Since it was Halloween, I thought a full moon was sort of creepy and also convenient!  The photo turned out so much cooler than the actual sky was because in the photo, the sky look an eery reddish- orangeish- purplish color.  The actual sky didn't really look like that, so I thought it was really weird how different the photo turned out... very suiting for Halloween!

Friday: spinning pinwheel

This is a pinwheel thing in my neighbor's yard.  I always see it, and when I noticed the wind was making the wheel spin real fast, I decided to take a few shots to practice getting the wheel stopped at different points.  In some, the wheel was completely frozen, some it looked like it was moving really slow, and in this one, the wheel is spinning real fast, while everything in the background is frozen.  It turned out pretty cool, although it was very hard to get a good shot because the fence was in the way to get a good angle!