Day 195, Cloudy Moon

 

I thought today was the full moon. I was bummed the clouds where in the way and then thrilled because the clouds were amazing! The full moon is tomorrow so I'll try again tomorrow.

Day 193, Morning Glass of Ice(d) Tea

Is it 'iced tea' or 'ice tea'?   I think it's iced tea, but the 'd' isn't really enunciated when spoken. Whatever, this tea doesn't even have ice

Day 189, Countryside Antiques

 Countryside Antiques in an adorable antique store in Avon, Ohio on Detroit Road.

 Three whole floors to explore. Sadly we had only about a half hour to explore but I'll definitely be checking this place out again.

Day 188, Soaking up the Shade

You can't stay this pasty white without serious effort. :P

Day 183, A Hospital Courtyard

Jeremy's lung is healing nicely. I took this photo of the courtyard outside his window to show him because he couldn't get out of bed.

Day 182, Pneumothorax

Today was scary. Jeremy went to the hospital because he was having trouble breathing. After about four hours of waiting it was determined Jeremy had a spontaneous pneumothorax or collapsed lung. He made the whole thing look way to easy. This is a picture of Jeremy's vitals and the room where they inserted his chest tube. *shiver*

Day 181, Cool Drink on a Hot Day

Sadie is a messy drinker

Day 145, Watching the Storm

Sadie keeping an eye on the storm. Actually she's keeping an eye on the after storm. During the storm she had her head underneath the couch.

Wednesday May 25, 2011

Day 133, Morning Fog

 

Woke up to a nice, soft fog today. Much more relaxing than yesterday's shake the house thunder and lighting.

Day 127, Muddy River

Olmsted Falls Park before the rain came.

Day 125, Afternoon Tea Break

Another gorgeous day! I really wish I had time to lounge around outside all day. I think I will schedule myself an early evening tea break as well. :)


And if you like iced tea, I adore the Lipton Cold Brew. It's easy-peasy!

Day 124, Dandelions & Blue Skies

Finally able to go outside! I snapped these at the Margaret Peak Nature Preserve in Eaton Township. I had never been there before but I will certainly go there again, hopefully next time I'll be able to find the trails. :/

Day 106, Stormy Spring Day

April showers bring May flowers. 

Day 58, Can we please come inside?

It was even too cold and miserable for the dogs and I had absolutely no desire to stay outside and throw snowballs for them.

Day 56, Tasha

I am always amazed with light painting. This one took some time and I used a bit of Photoshop to pull it together.

Day 38, Super Bowl XLIV

Since today was the Super Bowl I wanted to do something football themed and since I couldn't find a football I decided to make one.


I did this photo about 15 million times using an ISO of 100, f/22, and a shutter of 15s. In Photoshop I did very few minor cloning and smudging changes and applied a glass filter to add texture.

Day 19, The Dancers

 Wow. Today was pretty busy,  I almost didn't make my picture for the day. These are the dancers from Day 11.

Taken in my bedroom using a pillow case as a background and some minor Photoshop trickery.

Day 11, Dance

This is my second attempt with light painting, and it was sooo much fun! And this is my favorite TJ Maxx purchase, for less than $10!


The photo was made in my bedroom and was a little bit of a hillbilly set-up, yee-haw. I placed my camera inside a cowboy hat on my bed, I know it sounds weird but it is perfect for holding the camera on the bed. Then I positioned the dancing sculpture on a piece of white paper to help bounce light up and adjusted the comforter to hide the paper. After that I wrote dance in the air with the flash light(I didn't bother trying to write it backwards, just flipped it later in Photoshop) and shined the light straight down on the sculpture for a few seconds.

ISO 200, f/16.0, 20s

Day 9, Light Painting #1

This is my first attempt with light painting. I've always been interested in this form of photography and I definitely plan on attempting more involved light painting photos over the course of this year.


This photo was created in my bedroom. I covered a small flash light with tissue paper and tied it to the ceiling fan and gave it a whirl. The camera was resting on the floor pointing upwards, with an ISO of 100, f/5.0, and a shutter speed of 15 seconds.