Mar 14

(24/365)

I decided to play with my macro lens in the mirror today. Sometimes mirror shots take less time - sometimes they take more than setting the camera on the broken tripod and waiting for the shutter to go, again and again and again...

I'm hoping to get a new one for my birthday this week. And a remote for my camera. I think both will come in incredibly handy for this self-portrait project.

But didn't the macro bring this off beautifully? It's such a dreamy shot, soft in all the right places...

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I've also decided that my self-portrait project will be my official 365 project this year, so I'm not counting 365 separately anymore.

Extra photos just get to be extra photos, no counting necessary. It's too much to track with two kids and a new house and other photography ideas I'm working on right now.

I am thinking that from here out, I will probably post my 365 photos in one or two posts per week, so I can use my photography blog for other things I'm shooting and processing too.

Or just leave it to sit for a day or two. You know. Because I have two kids and a new house and other photography ideas I'm working on right now.



This is me, checking out. Time to pick the house up so we get up clean on Monday...


(Image © Informal Moments Photography)

Feb 15

3/Dust

It's one of those days. Everything is a bit blurry. My thoughts are scattered. I'm not quite so familiar as I'd like to be with my camera self-timer.

But here are couple of photos from today's ten-minute shoot.


4/Dust


5/Dust


7/365 (Piper's Fwlower)

(Image © Informal Moments Photography)

red light

Sometimes, the light and the color come together just perfectly...

116/365 - scent of memory

I know my shots are looking lazy of late - I'm sorry - I get so woozy when I'm not lying down! At least I'm shooting, though!

all my life, I've marked my memories by scent. this one is a particular favorite, from the night after I called my then-best-friend to tell him I was falling in love, to the scent I used on our honeymoon, to the scent I spray over our favorite white comforter every once in a while. I can smell roses when I'm pregnant - this one is so wonderful. I'm going to be so sad when I run out. it's been discontinued...

113/365 - once in a while

This photo is straight-out-of-the-camera (SOOC). Every once in a while, it's nice to know that I can actually nail it without the help of Photoshop. Very queasy today. Didn't want to spend a lot of time on it anyway.

111/365 - untitled

95/365 - falling snow down

No, we have not had snow. Not in April in the South. But this little piece of down I found last night looks rather like snow... My husband told me to shoot a wall today. It's been that kind of day. This little piece of fluff is as close as I could get, because it had to be a pretty wall, don't you see... ;-)

Forty-Three - Surrounding

I got really sidetracked from my "only one quick shot" this morning. REALLY sidetracked. While photojournalism is my first love, I've not had a lot of people to shoot recently, so I've been experimenting with composition, creating something to photograph for my daily photo ops. This morning, I dropped a tulip into a wine glass of water, set it in the sunlight, and bam. Click, click, clickety. I got 119 shots, and most of them were really good SOOC. I only touched them up for artistic preference.

This shot is the one I kept coming back to for my 365 photo of the day - I love the swirls in the water surrounding the tulip, the hints of light, the deep colors, the bright air trapped between petal and water. The very close second choice was this one.

Twenty-Nine - Refresh

I had to shoot this today. I needed the soft white cool, this peace before the rain.