The Daily Glimpse #10: An Ant’s Perspective
Fun with perspective and photographing with camera away from my face (and without the view screen on!)
=)
The Daily Glimpse Project #9 – “weeds”
maybe not from yesterday, but recent enough
this is a picture of “weeds” from my yard – hah!
if these are weeds, then i like weeds =)
even if only for the following 2 reasons:
1) it is incredibly warming to my heart to watch R run up to them and try to blow off the petal, and
2) they make great photography subjects!
The Daily Glimpse Project #8 – A fun way to save gas
Yesterday’s DGP (Daily Glimpse Project) moment was fun =) On my way home from work, there is a street that is mostly downhill. So I decided to put the car in neutral and cruise down for the fun of it. It was awesome! I went probably 2 miles without putting the car in gear and stayed around 40mph the whole time (that was WITH pressing the breaks!). Each time I thought the car would start to slow down too much, I was surprised and it would make it over the hill only to speed up again – causing a fresh wave of exhilaration. Well, ok, maybe that word is overkill. But it WAS fun =)
As I write this, and i read the phrase “over the hill” I can’t help but think that this is probably a good parallel to aging. Essentially: Put things in neutral and enjoy the ride. And just when you think things are going to start slowing down, you’ll be surprised at how they speed up again!
Funny how sometimes you start a post with one thing in mind and end up with another! That’s the cool thing about writing =)
The Daily Glimpse Project #7
This was taken in a random cafe in Roma, Italia, on our 45 minutes walk (with our suitcases) from the train station to our hotel (we later found out that we could have taken a 10 minute train pretty much door-to-door). The two cappuccinis (cappuccinI is the pleural for cappuccinO) we had there were UH-MAZING. Anyways, loved all these different little tin containers. If they didn’t cost so much I probably would have bought one of each!
The Daily Glimpse Project #6
first of all – i wanted to give a disclaimer…since i usually can’t take my picture, upload it and write my post before lat at night, i have decided to post each morning about my picture from the day before
so, although i’m late today (see my post from yesterday…very tired from work) i am excited about today’s picture. it is a shot that happened randomly when I was reading something on my phone. i almost deleted it, but then I realized that i really liked the colors and the streaking effect. I have done no post processing to this yet, although I have some ideas of some fun things I can do…so I’ll put up an update when i finish playing. but that likely won’t happen until I’m done with work – sometime middle of the week
have a great evening everyone!
The Daily Glimpse Project #5
some flowers near the train station. wanted to post yesterday but fell asleep next to my tray of dinner…very tired… =)
The Daily Glimpse Project #4
I tried something new for my daily glimpse project: taking pictures from R’s level without looking through the lens.
R tends to avoid the camera like the plague…or like she used to avoid food (ha!)…so I figured this way I could 1] get a new angle and 2] get her to not look away from me!
Things I did to make this work:
1] Changed my focus points from center focused only to activating all focus points (gives a higher probability that he will be in focus)
2] Tried to get the fastest shutter speed I could to avoid blur – you can do this by stopping down the aperture (which I like to do anyways)
and
3] Let go! These pictures may not be exactly perfect or have the exact composition you would normally use, but that’s the point! Something different, something cool and something fun!
Here are a couple of other shots I had fun taking today =)
This is a random tree trunk section sitting in our yard
And this is a big ‘ol broccoli leaf
Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge: Tiny
I took this picture 2 falls ago when L bought me my new macro lens for my birthday. I had lots of fun experimenting, and was very happy with this one! It may not be teeny tiny, but it sure was small!
The Daily Glimpse Project #3
Here is a snapshot of our evening today. Well at least the fun part (I am sparing you all the next hour after this picture when I was cleaning the cat poop and pee off our nice sofa)…
This was a fun moment for R and her Nani, who bought her glitter markers today (washable!). R had so much fun opening each one, and making “raindrops” on the paper and then closing each marker. She was too cute =)
who knew?
I had no idea that broccoli is a collection of flower buds! well i learned this interesting fact when I failed to harvest my little broccoli heads (i thought they would get bigger!) and they started to flower! I couldn’t believe it! well good news is that I looked it up, and the flowers are edible. in fact the broccoli heads are sitting in a bowl on our kitchen counter, and almost every time I walk by it, I take a stalk and eat it raw. it is so yummy! i think i will add it to our salads tomorrow..
next step: harvest my flowering pak choi! it is all getting out of hand! …and it doesn’t help that I am working about 95 hours in 8 days… =(
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