June 29th, 2010

'The Faces of Auburn' -- recognize anyone? I don't. I didn't really know what to take a picture of today and I have thought this mural in downtown Auburn was cool, so I went down to get a shot. You can't really get a good shot of something painted like this, so it is mostly just show and tell. Aren't they cool? Adds a little something to the run down part of Auburn. Today's theme was actually "words", which I used a few days ago because I mixed them up; so I took a picture of the Cavanaugh Hardware sign. Poor Cavanaugh's. I thought it looked like a sad store front in comparison with the past.

June 28th, 2010

Water. I decided I wanted to try a water droplet tutorial today, to do something different. (Was it just me or were there a lot of T's in that sentence?) Well I did everything the tutorial said but my space was different and nothing worked out quite right so I ended up abandoning most of its suggestions and came up with this. I'll have to keep experimenting. If it were warmer outside I would have messed with the hose. Grrr.

June 27th, 2010

I took my camera to the movie theater today in hopes of getting some 'words' for today's theme. We went and saw Toy Story 3 at the earliest matinee time (matinees are now $8!). This is kind of a bland shot, I was hoping for a giant cardboard Toy Story setup somewhere to take a better picture of but I didn't see any. This was a really good movie! But I have no doubts in Pixar. The short was really cool too -- as always. (Day and Night, look it up). I left the second movie thinking "I am never giving away my old toys!" and after this movie thinking "I need to play with all of my old toys!" (They were getting pretty depressed that Andy didn't play with them anymore). This one made me cry more than Wall-E, UP, and Toy Story 2 -- all of which I cried in. I am hoping they come out with a DVD trilogy of 1, 2, and 3 so I can get them all together!

June 26th, 2010

Today's theme was R E D. We ended up going back to the farm in the picture below to pick strawberries. The picture below doesn't show the actual strawberry field but it is right next to it. It was a really sunny day, and it was pretty easy to fill those tiny flats they give out now so we weren't there too long. I snapped this as we were mashing them for strawberry shortcake. I just now realized that none of my pictures were that clear. If I uploaded this ON Saturday maybe I could have redone it, but that is clearly not the way I operate.

June 25th, 2010

I am a copy cat Dad! I was in a different spot though. And I found a fence post with wheat grass. Today's theme was landscapes, so after I ran we took a drive down West Valley Highway looking for a good landscape shot, and also for a place to pick strawberries. We found a place to pick strawberries, and I found an okay landscape spot.

June 23rd, 2010

The past few days I have been less than creative. Some pink roses...

June 22, 2010

Today Megan and I went down by flaming geyser to take some pics. I was the driver so it was hard to see things to photograph because I was looking at the road, and since it was such a nice day the road had a lot of traffic. So we would like to go back early in the morning on bikes or something. So I ended up posting the honey shelves at Mosby's which for some reason I really liked. We also messed around with shutter speeds, trying to get smooth velvety water. This was my best attempt so I decided to post it. Then once we got back to her house Megan was watering some plants and a little tree frog jumped on her watering can so I told her to hold still because I had to get a picture. By the time I got back out the frog had jumped on her back! So I ended up getting some good shots of the little frog with his feet stretched out all over her butt (he hopped around alot). He ended up settling down into a fold in her shirt, and I liked this picture the best because it was clear, and his eye was visible. She made a new friend! (Which she eventually left in the grass).