Thursday, February 05, 2009

my "purple" image. I like the perspective on this one. I did rotate it so that it was a vertical and it was not good at all. I should have cropped off that tiny little bit of dark at the bottom edge.


my "yellow" image. Should have photoshopped out the license plate of the car I suppose - altho really - why? I think if I was selling the image I would *have* to.
I have to admit that while I don't understand the fact that people seem to have incredible amounts of spare time to *squander*? surfing photos and videos (and news articles and political blogs and...) I am a bit mesmerized by my own foray into the web world. At first it was just ofoto (later to become kodak.com) just to share with family. Then I found fotki - which for me is a great site and lets me share photos with my whole school with just one click (I like to take photos of field trips and school events and share - because I wish someone would share their photos with me when I can't participate) and also allows me to password protect those images (lord knows some of the parents are unbelievably paranoid that someone might see their darling little one on-line and come snatch them up in person) and also allows me to set the defaults so that those same parents can download the originals (so I don't have to email them). Theoretically I can also assign a price tag to my photos and people can "buy" them. But other than those doting parents - who exactly VISITS said photo albums (and WHY?!). Clearly there is an art to driving "traffic" or eye-balls - to your site. I haven't tried at all (altho I can see stats and am gratified when I see that 124 people have visited my site - but also know when only 1/2 of my relatives have bothered to visit my album after I shared with them). I have recently joined this photo a day group on flickr and so am most active on that site right now. I have to say that it is a bit addictive to see how many people have checked out your photograph - and if any thought they should bother to comment on it. I just recently also discovered how to see that people have added your photo to their "favorite" bucket. I have started adding people's photos to my "fav" bucket too. It is actually a kind of cool application (having my favorite photos from other people grouped into one viewing spot). It is also fascinating to see WHICH photos people go for. I internally debate which one I should add to the group - and then my alternate turns out to be more popular. Interesting. I was gratified that a photo I uploaded today has been made a "fav" by 4 people. I pulled over the car yesterday on the way home and snapped a pic of a yellow mini at a yellow striped crosswalk (the theme of the day was "yellow"). I know I could "work" at my photos more - certainly you can spend as many hours as you have available - but I tend to spend less than 1/2 hours snapping for my daily shot as my days are already busy enough. I do really love that you view the world slightly differently or through a different focus or lens for a day with this challenge each day. Today was "purple" I saw at least 5 purple buildings in the neighborhood and had ideas for other indoor purple things. I was showering this morning and mulling over what I might try to shoot at home that was purple (not a color that is big in my wardrobe) and noticed that the shower poof thing hanging in the shower was... purple. Got to LOOK in life!

Monday, February 02, 2009


"horizon"



"red"

I have been doing a photo a day photo challenge. There is a flickr group to upload your photos and the photochallenge.org blog assigns a different challenge each day. I'm currently running a day behind and I missed a day "fill the frame" which should be easy but I don't have any particular inspiration yet. If you want to check out my photos you can see them in my fotki account. Above are my last 2 entries.

Sunday, February 01, 2009

I was at one of our more upscale grocery stores the other day and they had a chocolate display. No prices. I picked up Vosques Haut Chocolat Goji Bar - it has tiny pieces of goji berries (my nutritionist recently pointed me in their direction - and I like them a lot), pink Himalayan salt, and deep milk chocolate (altho at 41% cacao it isn't THAT deep IMO). What it is however is totally delicious. I never did look up the price - that is until I googled it today. Apparently the bars retail for $7.50. For 3 oz. Gulp. But I want more...