127/365 - Giving In

I swore I wasn't going to photograph a dandelion outside. Only because everywhere you turn, dandelion pictures abound. And that makes me dig in my heels and say, "I'm not going to do what everyone else is doing." But, I went outside yesterday and they were everywhere. And they were friendly and fuzzy and puffy looking.

I thought about how photography, at least nature photography, is dependent on the seasons. It's like eating locally - everyone eats strawberries in June because that's strawberry season. And that's okay. Now, if you're going to manufacture your nature, then I suppose you could shoot it any time you wanted. But that holds no appeal for me. So instead I will shoot a dandelion, even though everyone else is, too.

(And just a little side note - I didn't skip a day, I simply adjusted the number so it is accurate. Somewhere along the way I misnumbered something. And this is in fact Friday's photo. I just felt too sick last night to write anything.)

125/365 - Relics

Found at the newspaper, piled high and forgotten. And I think my number count on the days may be off, but I'm not sure.

124/365 -Keeping the Dream Alive

Barely.

123/365 - Unprocessed

Really. The only thing I did to this was sharpen it.

122/365 - Shimmer

I went out several times today to photograph water drops. It would rain and then the sun would come out and I was chasing good light but wasn't really thrilled with anything I shot. I like the drops in this on, but I didn't like them on the green leaf. So I inverted the image in photoshop and came up with this.

121/365 - Iko Iko

This one was fun. I knew what I wanted to do, but how to get the king red? I don't have any gels for my flash so I rubber-banded saran wrap to the flash and smeared the saran wrap with vaseline I had colored with red food dye. I couldn't get the light as red as I wanted, plus the chess piece was natural-wood colored, not white. I tried holding my red filter over the flash, too and that helped a little.

I probably could have achieved that same if not better effect if I had simply used photoshop. But I wanted to shot out of the camera to be as close to what I envisioned as possible.

120/365 - At Work

I had a crappy night at work and had no time during the day or night to take a picture. So I grabbed my camera while I was sitting at my desk.