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?

2-10-09, originally uploaded by BetweenTheShutter.

I had a wonderful, peaceful lunch break today. I spotted these lovely little leaves creeping onto a wooden fence. I have to say I love the texture of the fence.

After I found this I went to my favorite park and ate my lunch, brainstormed, wrote out some of the life goals that have been swimming around in my head and then watched the clouds and the trees dance in the wind.  Sitting and enjoying nature has been on my to-do list for awhile. I need to start making that a regular part of my schedule. I recommend you do too.

(Hurray, we’re all caught up! and with any luck I’ll be able to keep it that way)

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I was able to have a really awesome conversation with a new-er friend tonight. We enjoyed coffee and each other and use our brokenness and experiences to speak into each other’s lives. It was one of those good ones.

While we were talking I ended up ripping up my coffee sleeve to make a girl and her dog. – it sort of just happened. Personally, I think she’s kind of cute.

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!

  

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.

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My mini vacation was great! Look at this amazing view I had from the plane.

It’s pretty awesome that we can rise above the clouds for a few hundred dollars (actually this flight only cost me $83). This was only a dream for so many people that came before us and now we think it’s a normal part of life. Sometimes I get stopped dead in my tracks thinking about stuff like that.

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!

02-04-09, originally uploaded by BetweenTheShutter.

Today was a full fledged rainy day and I loved it. There is something so refreshing and cleansing and cozy about rain. (The fact that it hardly ever rains here probably has something to do with my being in love with it.) This barren little tree is sits outside of my office all day long. I think its rather lonely, so I took a picture of it to make it feel loved. I think it sighed a little bit when I walked away.

02-04-09, originally uploaded by BetweenTheShutter.

If you happen to stop by my office (which hardly ever happens) this very realistic bobble-y version of Elvis will greet you in lieu of a receptionist. Yup, we’re that awesome.

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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?

2-02-09, originally uploaded by BetweenTheShutter.

I love the vintage-ness of the greyhound bus station. Maybe it’s just because they are too cheap to renovate but I’m glad it’s still got the 60′s sign.

This is a building that I’ve always wanted to photograph — I just love it — but it’s a pretty tricky place to shoot. The tall trees cause some pretty crazy shadows and it’s on the corner of one of the busiest intersections in town so standing in the street to be at the right angle wouldn’t turn out well for Jules. But if I ever get my hands on a fish eye lens, a ladder, and a police escort this is where I would go. If I had all the above and a personal jet I might choose differently but that wasn’t part of the question was it?

2-01-09, originally uploaded by BetweenTheShutter.

My good friend, Nif, and I went on a walk today and discovered an awesome park.  It’s up on some bluffs looking over the ocean and seems to go for quite awhile (we ran out of time and had to turn around before we hit the end). It was a gorgeous day and apparently this is the place to be when you are sporty, hot, and have a dog. Let’s just say that on the walk back we started talking about the steps we need to take in order to fit a puppy or two into our lives.

This tree reminds me of a crescendo and I love the way it kind of explodes at you.

(I’m sorry that I’ve gotten so completely behind! I haven’t stopped taking pictures I’ve just been working some bugs out of the whole getting them uploaded side of things. Everything should be back on track now. Thanks for hanging in there with me!)

 

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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.

    

1-29-09 1, originally uploaded by BetweenTheShutter.

First of all, I’m sorry for falling off the face of the earth this weekend – I was taking pictures but wasn’t able to get them uploaded. But I’m back and ready to rock it!

Now then onto business: Friday was a terrible day at work, lets just say I ended up tearing up a bit in the HR office. Once I finally got a lunch break (3:30 pm) I headed straight to the beach, threw out my happy blue towel, put some Imogen Heap in my ears and read a bit of Ben Patterson’s thoughts on the Psalms. Needless to say – I felt much better an hour later

I think its important to have a stash of emotional medication for those days that don’t go according to plan, what’s in you’re de-funk medicine cabinet?