I know, I have been very negligent in posting my project pictures.  My everyday activities keep getting in the way.  You’re right, that is not a good excuse but it is the best I can come up with at the moment.  This will act as a catch-me-up post and then I will work at being more diligent in writing up my experience.  I let it slip and I rode a long way down the hill before I stopped.  Where did I leave off…

Day 16 – Take my son back to college day

We didn’t get started on the 2.5 hour trip back to college as early as I had hoped but it worked out for the best.  We returned to Potsdam, NY in time for lunch and he ended up taking me to a little Mexican restaurant in town.  It was a great burrito, actually more than I could eat and we now have another place to return whenever we are in town.

The trip home was overcast with a slight rain coming and going but I did manage to get in a few stops at places I have been trying to visit.  As I got close to home my route takes me along the Black River Canal, a northern expansion to the New York State Canal system, running between Rome and Carthage, NY.  This picture is one of the old locks along that canal.

Day 17 – Bad weather, what picture can I get day

The weather did not allow for any excursion during lunch today and by the time I got home my outside options were disappearing quickly.  My daughter had ‘borrowed’ this night light from her Grandma and I decided to sit down in the hall with it to see what could be done.  The static picture of the shade was cool with the included scene and colors it created on the wall but I wanted to be able to show the movement.  The top down picture worked but then the profile really sold it for me.  My only trouble was deciding which to use for my project picture.  Creating the picture below allowed me to learn some more about my software as well as hopefully tell a story.

Day 18 – Keep looking inside day

Mother Nature just didn’t want me to be outside again.  Or maybe I just didn’t want to take on the adventure, either way I turned inside again once I was home from work.  I’m a big Disney fan (if you couldn’t already tell) and I wanted to try to use these Jim Shore figures for my project picture.  At first I tried to create a panorama of all of them on the shelf but it just wasn’t working out.  The vivid colors were going to work for me no matter what I did so I decided to go for the chorus line picture with a shallow depth of focus.  It works for me and it keeps the rest of the room out of the picture, which my wife appreciates.

Day 19 – Inspiration from another 365 project

Today I had a thought for a picture which was inspired by Simon Kitcher.  He recently re-started his own 365 project and has been photographing glass sculptures.  His wonderful pictures pushed me in a different direction which turned out fairly well.  I played with a light and mosaic candle topper to produce the picture below.  The smaller squares which are more in focus are on the backside of the topper as seen through the front.  I really liked the colors and glimpses of light that the mosaic tiles provided.

Day 20 – Not done with mosaic candle topper day

I didn’t even try to go outside today.  The candle topper was calling me back.  This time I lit a small tea candle and placed it inside the topper.  The candle’s light provided a different look to the patterns and colors from the previous days picture.  Of the numerous pictures I took with the candle this one with all the crackling within the glass was my favorite.  The diffusion of the flame within the different squares was what I was looking for when I thought of creating this picture.

Day 21 – Finally a worthy sunrise day

Some days you just walk into it…  As I was getting ready to leave for work I noticed the sunrise and the colors it was producing in the sky.  Combine that with a light frost and my camera was calling.  I had about 10 minutes before I had to leave which had me racing around my yard to capture all the images that kept shouting at me.  For this one a put the camera on the walk and shot up through the frosted grass.  The out of focus trees with only the sky colors to provide a background is what prompted me to pick this picture for today.

Whew!  I’m all caught up.  Not as painful as I thought it would be.  My memory isn’t the greatest but returning to these pictures to write this post brought me back to each day without a problem.  I guess my wife is right, I only remember those things that interest me.

Time to go find day 22’s picture.  It’s out there, I’m really curious as to when it will jump out at me…