Dilly Dally Dailies

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!

 

01-24-09, originally uploaded by BetweenTheShutter.

Today was a bit of a roller coaster but luckily it ended well – lots of candles and some goofy friends playing everything from hymns to Beatles to Stravinsky to MJ on 2 violas, 1 violin, 1 piano, 1 table, 1 crutch and 3 or 4 voices. It was a fun hodgepodge of music

Unfortunately it was too dark to get any decent pictures of the music making (I did record a bit of it though – i love that my camera as an audio record feature – and for what it is I’m pretty impressed with the quality).

   

01-23-09, originally uploaded by BetweenTheShutter.

I loved the color of this old pickup, there was also a blue one, a yellow one and a purple one all parked on the same block!

The rainy weather is making this project more difficult. Available light isn’t what it used to be and my little point and shoot’s flash is all sorts of useless. I’m working on making a diffuser for it. In the mean time I’ll have to study up on available lighting, hold my breath and keep my white balance on “cloudy.” Hmm a tripod might be a good idea too. Any other suggestions?

01-22-09, originally uploaded by BetweenTheShutter.

I was feeling well enough to go outside (for a few minutes) today. I really like the rain, and puddles, and reflections…. so here you go a reflection in a rain puddle – what could be better than that?