Dilly Dally Dailies

02-12-09, originally uploaded by BetweenTheShutter.

It doesn’t seem like these are going to be around for much longer so I figured I’d document them while I still had the chance.

I love the colors in this shot.

02-11-09, originally uploaded by BetweenTheShutter.

Guess where this cute little flower light is.

Go on, guess… come on, it’ll be fun.

Nope, not Disneyland.

Give up?

Ok I’ll tell you,

The Santa Barbara Ralph’s Grocery Store. Go figure.

I had played around with some actions on this one. What do you think?

2-8-09, originally uploaded by BetweenTheShutter.

I managed to get home from the trip with just enough time to make it to church (it’s in the evening). I thought it was somewhat comical that I went to Las Vegas and then flew straight to church afterwards. Somehow it worked and I think that God enjoys us enjoying life, He just wishes we weren’t so stupid sometimes about what we think will fulfill us. But I digress.

We had a big, fun pizza dinner after the service and while I was cleaning up I realized that I hadn’t taken a picture yet (I spent most of the day attempting to sleep in the airport – our flight was super delayed.) So here we are – industrial sized cooking utensils, YAY!

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!

2-3-09, originally uploaded by BetweenTheShutter.

I spotted this while walking to the grocery store to get creamer for my office. I always put corrugated metal in my cactus garden, don’t you?

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!

01-25-09, originally uploaded by BetweenTheShutter.

I went to Silvergreens (my new favorite resturant) with my good friends Chris and Katie Humphreys for lunch today and found these arches and fun hanging lights. I’ll admit I boosted the contrast on this one quite a bit… because contrast is sexy.

  

01-17-09, originally uploaded by BetweenTheShutter.

Some friends of mine (and myself) traveled to the far land of Santa Monica to check out some galleries (and gelato) today. It was a day full of fun and inspiration (and gelato). This is the sun setting on Bergamont Station – a compound of galleries I will be going back to in the not-too-distant future.

(I also discovered that one can’t take pictures inside of the gelato place on the 3rd Street Promade.  It’s only January and I’ve already been shot down twice!)