Weekly Photo Challenge #1: Electricity

Hi!  I’m late posting this here (but I posted it on time on my main blog, http://www.geekgirl415.com!).  I am preparing to move this blog over to that blog this week so be sure to change the address in your reader or favorites.

Due 1/5 was our take on Electricity.  I did the standard power pole; a little boring  but I do like the balance of the lines. This was also the first time I shot in RAW format.  It is amazing the difference between .jpg and .arw when I looked at them side by side- the .jpg had added color/saturation that wasn’t necessary and just a little distracting.  I had no idea!

Next week is JOY.  Which is cool since my sister in law and newest niece both share that as their middle name!  I’m hoping I can work them into this somehow.  So- how about you? Ready to join us?  Click on over! Shutterboo’s Weekly Challenge 2011

wow… it’s been a LONG TIME…

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!  I am back!  After a year long break from project 365, where I sadly burned myself out of taking picture, I’m happy to say there’s a new challenge afoot.   

Enter Brooke/aka Shutterboo.  She is starting up the weekly photo challenges again this year and I plan to fully participate!  I hope, if you’re still with me, you’ll join in too.

Click here to visit Shutterboo’s blog for more info on the weekly challenge!

i know what’s wrong with me…

No motivation for photography since the new year started.  What’s my problem?

This is my problem.  

Flickr- Serena.Photography

Flickr- Fifi Patchouli- Toulouse, France

I am so freakin’ bored of my natural light, around the house blah and really want some flash.  And time.   And the vision these women have.  And i wish i had Fifi’s hair. 

Enjoy these Flickr photostreams- they’re amazing.

Photo Class- Your Life, Through the Lens

Are you still shooting on Auto pilot?  Are you wishing you could figure out those knobs and settings on your camera?  Want to take your photography a step further?  Well – you’re in luck!

Join me and my good friend Lorraine in this class:  Your Life, Through the Lens, put on by an excellent photographer- Katrina Kennedy.  It starts Tues 1/19 and it’s an online class.  You will be given two photo assignments a week for 3 weeks, and then share them on the class message board.  It’s my first class with her and I’m so excited!  Katrina is an amazing photographer- you can see her Flickr page here.

I hope to see you “in class”!

16 jan

Taken from my hateful Motorola Razr… cleaned up a little though.  The colors Saturday morning during my 5 mile run/walk were fantastic!  This is on Magnolia Ave, off of Westside Rd in Healdsburg.  The winery is Alderbrook.

Week 3 – Photo Challenge- Toilet

Brooke, aka Shutterboo has weekly challenges- this week it’s TOILET.  Ya.  She’s nutz, right?  I spent about 20 minutes trying all different angle to make my toilet look somewhat photogenic.  I think this one will do.  Of course, some Moody Pop action was needed to class it up a bit.  Edgy, right?  Tough? Badass?  Get it- bad ASS! 

well that’s all i got.  Check out her Flickr pool- some pretty hot toilets can be seen there….

13 jan

Last Wednesday night, we went to see Anthony Bourdain speak at the Well’s Fargo Center here in Santa Rosa.  We weren’t supposed to take pictures, but I see that more as a challenge than a rule.  Remember Kramer and his bootleg filming of a movie on Seinfeld?  To Keith’s dismay, I channel Kramer when told I can’t take photos.

But hey- I’m not going to even try to sell this FABULOUS, Hi-Quality portrait.   Did you know that Anthony Bourdain isn’t human?  He’s an alien from the planet Red.  You can tell by his glowing red skin.   But he was still very funny and politically astute.  Keith and I both agree with Anthony when it comes to travel (although i realized that night i need to work on my “yes’s” when traveling, as it applies to loosening up and eating different foods).   Basically Anthony believes that we need to “be good guests” when experiencing another culture in another place.  That, and don’t wear black socks and sandals.