Dilly Dally Dailies

  

2-7-09, originally uploaded by BetweenTheShutter.

A few of the people on the trip decided to dress up as alter-egos, because – why not? So this is “Jade”  riding the bus in the rain.

Also, I think its rather funny that because of the pictures I chose to put up here you have no idea where I went – neener neener. 

Ok fine, I’ll tell you – we went to Vegas for the weekend for a friends birthday and had a blast! There you happy? Good.

Hi Friends, 

I’m on vacation this weekend – and you better believe I’m taking pictures. But I won’t be able to get them up here until Monday or so.  In the mean time here are some b-sides from January.  I’m planning on doing this at the end of every month… Some days I take more than one picture (this month I took a grand total of 623!) and it can be challenging to pick one.  So I was thinking I’d put a couple of the “almost but not quite” ‘s up here every now and again.  I played a bit more with some coloring effect on some of these which was so fun I might keep doing it.  (some of them got a little out of order – sorry!)

Hope you enjoy these, let me know what you think and I’ll see ya next week.

Muah!
Jules 

1-12-09: 225 E. Cota St. – This place was just too cool to only take one picture!

1-13-09: Santa Barbara Post Office

1-14-09: East Beach on a Beautiful Day!

1-15-09: another angle of my “make a bad day better” dasies 

1-17-09: A trashcan that says “grace” on it… deep.  (I played with the colors a lot on this one)

1-19-09: A really cool deck I found at the beach.  The sun was setting which made for some fun lighting. 

1-20-09:  limes make [almost] everything yummier. 

1-12-09: I didn’t realize we had a foodland (or that they existed at all) until I took a weird way to get to a friends house. I guess there is exploring left to do here.  I really like the reflections of the traffic signal and my camera lens (yes, I took this through my car window while at a red light). 

1-24-09: Agua Dulce Foursquare Church’s outdoor lighting (I went home for a wedding shower that day).

1-29-09: I loved how these flowers weren’t going to let some silly fence keep them from growing the way they wanted to.  I really needed this encouragement the day I took this. 

1-24-09: Wedding shower just isn’t fun without a wedding dress made of toilet paper.

1-12-09: 225 E. Coat St. again – (Can you tell I liked this place?)

1-23-09: They day I found the cool green truck I also found Colonel Mustard, a crazy cool patchy blue guy, and Rusty McRuster.

1-30-09: I think I need to look up more often.  I have fun playing with the colors on this one.   

1-30-09:  I really liked the abandoned crayons at the foot of this massive artistic column.  There are a lot of different meanings you could throw on this one.  I’ll let you decide. 

1-28-09: Another image from my paperclip jar’s modeling debut. 

1-17-09: Seriously, how does she look so cool? I can’t decide which coloring I like better.  Feel free to vote. 

What a month! Thanks for keeping tabs on me and Happy February!

Santa Barbara seems to have a lot of these trees.  They look normal enough the rest of the year but then in January something crazy happens and all of a sudden they are COVERED in these cute white flowers.  They seriously come out of nowhere.  And the best part is that I always forget about them until they show up. Yay for the happy flower trees!

I had trouble with this shot.  All the whites were too bright or the colors were too dark, or the background was a mess, or the picture was just way too busy (there are a ton of these flowers all over the tree) so I finally settled on this one and then had some fun in photoshop on it.  Experimenting in the spice of Dilly Dally I guess.   I’m still determined to get a couple good pics of these trees before the go back to normal so you might see something similar in the next few days.

Today I used my overflowing paperclip cup as a model so I could play around with some fun lighting techniques.  (Don’t work it was after work hours.)  

Sorry about the late post, my work computer was throwing a fit!

Also, everyone should start getting excited.  I have some extra tidbits planned for the end of the month!

Today I was very brave and I cooked for myself, and I was successful!  A co-worker recently took a trip to Italy and brought back some spices for pasta sauce for me.  I went for it.  My measuring spoon giraffe friends are in awe of my amazing cooking talents.

And I know this is kind of cheating (posting a 2nd picture) but when I turned around from taking a picture of this beautifuly displayed dish… well, I laughed at myself.  I thought you would have an opportunity to do so as well:

I really did have ALL the cabinets AND the fridge open for at least the last part of the cooking ordeal.  Oops!

This blog is the proof of a creative experiment I am doing this year: to take a picture everyday – rain or shine, sickness or health, ’till New Years Eve does us part.

The point is to train my eye to see things that I normally rush past in my busy day.  My daily routine (especially during the week) can get rather monotonous, so I’m guessing by March (or sooner) I’m going to have to be looking pretty hard to find new things to photograph.  That’s when this should get really interesting.

These are dailies… most of them will not be professional quality.  If they are lucky they might get 2 minutes of post processing  - but I’m guessing by Feburary most of them probably won’t get that.  I will mostly be using my point ‘n shoot, Nikon Coolpix P5000, not my DSLR (the dang thing just won’t fit in my purse).   That being said,  I am going for artistic composition and  I still want these to be “good” photos even though they will often be taken quickly.

Feel free to leave comments/suggestions/critics etc.  Thanks for coming along for the ride!

xoxo
Jules