16 September 2009

Practicing shutter speed again.

25 August 2009

Missy laying on her couch in my room.

03 August 2009

(Click for full view)



A shot of me and my new camera :)

11 July 2009

The kitchen sink. :)

09 July 2009

This is Buck, the last of Keith's dogs. He's a 13 year old poodle. It's very hard to tell what is what in this mess of curls and blankets... You are looking at the front half of him. There is one paw, one ear, and his face here (face is on the right).

02 July 2009

An unused electric guitar at my boyfriend's house.

24 June 2009

This is the first day of a new theme. But I'm not telling anyone what my theme is :)



All of the photos in this theme are representations of something.

This one is pretty obscure, I'm saving the obvious ones for the end.



(The poem is "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost.)

23 June 2009

More of a Photoshop technique than a photography technique.



The photos themselves weren't that great, but I'm really happy with how this turned out. I have been wanting to try this for a long time! :)

20 June 2009

A plant at my boyfriend's house.



This is what happens when you tell your girlfriend to wait while you grab stuff you forgot, and also forget to let her in your car.

06-11-09

Keith and I went on a 2 mile round-trip hike to Lake Evan and Boardman's Lake today. The hike was really easy, and we got to explore a bunch of hike-in campsites at the end by Boardman's Lake. And see snow in June, since we were way up in the mountains.


I got some pretty cool pictures, but I'm in love with this one. The forest we were in was a second or old growth (probably second) forest and it was fascinating to see all of the different signs of old growth forests. Snags (this picture) are one of those signs. And the trees were HUGE! The hike wasn't too impressive, but the trees were just amazing.


If you want to see some more pictures from our hike, check out my hiking set on Flickr.

6-03-09

This is one of Keith's dogs, Remington :)


We had temperatures around the 90's today. Remington is usually pretty skiddish, especially when you stick stuff in his face (though I suppose I would be too), and I have never gotten good pictures of him.


And I have tried many times.


The poor guy was so hot today that he plopped down on the kitchen floor and he didn't care if I took a few shots. But he looks sad...

5-31-09

I've taken pictures of pieces of me for this project (feet, hair, eye, sunburn, etc), but I haven't done a true self portrait until now.


The coloring was off in all of the pictures I took, so I added a bokeh texture to it to make it look pretty. I thought about editing out the top of my bed (bottom right-hand corner) but laziness won out again and I decided that trying to make it look good by my arm would be a huge pain.


(P.S. I really am wearing a shirt. My hair is covering it.)

5-9-09

I have mixed feelings about this photo.

Pros:
- The placement of the objects within the frame.
- The reflection (which apparently I'm addicted to right now).
- My dog is adorable and can close doors.

Cons:
- The placement of the lighting caused the entire photo to be grainy and washed out.
- It was over processed in Photoshop in my attempts to make it look good.
- It's in black and white, when I would prefer to have this shot in color.


I really wanted to capture Missy closing a door, but with the French doors I think it's going to be hard for me to get the photo. I'm lucky that my camera caught the action on this one.

5-8-09

I was playing with reflections again. It came out a lot better this time, in my opinion.



Things I realize now:

1) I could have moved so that the toilet wasn't visible. In other pictures, you can't see it. This is the best picture of the ones that I took though.

2) Keith's bathroom needs a paint job. And toilet paper.

3) I hold my camera funny.

5-7-09

A typical western Washington day.


This picture is in color, by the way (despite what the tag says). Look at the bottom right-hand corner if you don't believe me.

5-4-09

I really wanted to play with the window and mirror combination that I have in my bathroom.


Unfortunately, it didn't really turn out like I had envisioned. This was the best shot and I'm still disappointed with it.


In a few months when I am hurting for ideas, I'm going to play with this again.