Dilly Dally Dailies

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?

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?

 

1-31-09 1, originally uploaded by BetweenTheShutter.

I like to think that I don’t spend much time in LA but I’ve managed to drive down there 4 or 5 times this month! (Let’s hope this doesn’t become a pattern for the rest of the year.)

Today traffic was moving so slowly that I was ready to go insane. So I pulled out my camera and practiced some slow shutter speed movement stuff. It took a while to get a smooth circle which helped the hour it took to go a mile pass much faster.

It seemed innocent enough at the time… to give my cute little oranges some cute little faces. But I soon found out that I couldn’t bring myself to eat them for it would destroy the happy couples’ dreams of their future life together.  Plus their chaperon has a monocle and I’ve always had a soft spot for people that sport monocles – they always remind of the steward in Disney’s Cinderella.  He had to take so much grief from the king how could you not feel sorry for him?

After work today I got to hang out with my old roommates at CorkTree Cellars – it was a wonderful time of feeling grown-up, hip and stylish.  I was hoping to get a picture there but it was too dark, so my little orange friends will be famous for the day. (and there was much rejoicing)

 

01-09-09, originally uploaded by BetweenTheShutter.

My co-worker gave me the cutest gift today! A bright pretty scarf with my name written all over it!