Very yummy peanut chicken and noodles. It was so pretty I just had to take a picture!
Monday, October 25, 2010
Day 279 - The Dish
Very yummy peanut chicken and noodles. It was so pretty I just had to take a picture!
Monday, September 6, 2010
Day 276 - Happy Hour
Cheater day - and this picture is from back at the beginning of the project when I was out celebrating the birthdays of two good friends!
Day 275 - On Tap
Out to dinner at one of our favorite local restaurants - they have the best beer selection!
Day 274 - Cookie Crumbles
My very favorite cookies from the grocery store - they have them at Valentines Day and St. Patrick's Day and I can never resist buying a pack!
Day 273 - Memories
My mom sent me a box of various memories from when I was growing up - baby books, school report cards, pictures! These are a few of the pictures from my younger (and much cuter) days!
Day 272 - Let There Be Light
I'm not exactly sure what I was doing today, but I only had one picture - so this is it! We've been working hard on the basement, and this weekend we were putting in the new can lights.
Day 271 - Fancy Faucet
We installed a new faucet in the bathroom. I really love the soft lines in the photo as well as how the light is reflecting.
Day 270 - Sultry Red
I loved the name of this wine "Hey Mambo" and loved the description even more - "California Sultry Red"! You can't help but want to buy a bottle!
Day 269 - Stiletto Server
My mom gave me this great cake/pie server for Christmas! It looks like a high heel, but the heel is magnetic so you can remove it to use and wash the server!
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Day 268 - Fall Field
Yet another cheater day - this is a cool pic from up north this past fall. I added a little mocha preset action to it!Exposure: 1/1250 sec
Aperture: f/2.2
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO Speed: 640
Day 267 - Door to Paradise
Missed a few more days - here are a few pic's from warmer times - our trip to Wine Country last July. This is the entry to Peju - a great winery in Napa.Exposure: 1/2500 sec
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 24mm
ISO Speed: 800
Day 266 - Lucky
My lucky bamboo plant - although its been touch and go keeping it alive! Exposure: 1/15 sec
Aperture: f/1.4
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO Speed: 160
Day 265 - Bouquet Brights
These were very colorful flowers, but I also played around with saturation and brightness of the colors for fun!Exposure: 1/80 sec
Aperture: f/1.4
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO Speed: 160
Day 264 - Snow Forts
Some outdoor fun today - looks like a snow fort waiting to happen!Exposure: 1/4000 sec
Aperture: f/1.4
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO Speed: 160
Day 263 - Guinness Times Two
Today was a heartbreaking day - Ray had to put his Guinness down. G was an awesome black lab who is missed very much. Tonight we drank Guinness in loving memory of Guinness.Exposure: 1/125 sec
Aperture: f/1.4
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO Speed: 1250
Friday, July 2, 2010
Day 262 - Mocha Cubes
Three new glass block windows installed today! This is a mocha filter which I think looks pretty interesting!Exposure: 1/500 sec
Aperture: f/1.4
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO Speed: 800
Day 261 - Teddy
My childhood teddy bear - I've had him for as long as I can remember! He's got a few holes and I've had to push some stuffing back in, but he is well loved! And he never had a name - other than teddy, thankyouverymuch Girl Scout Camp!
Exposure: 1/60 sec
Aperature: f/1.4
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO Speed: 800
Day 260 - Retro Mirror
Sometimes you end up with the most unusual things to photograph when it's late and you just need to find something! This is actually the insert of a set of picture frames that I bought - I loved the old school camera!Exposure: 1/250 sec
Aperture: f/1.4
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO Speed: 800
Day 259 - Jagged Hill
Another missed day - ooops. This is a pic from our ATV ride in the desert when we were in Arizona! That was such a fun trip!Exposure: 1/2000 sec
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 24mm
ISO Speed: 320
Day 258 - Shinny New Bottle
New water bottle! Not much else to say on this one!Exposure: 1/200 sec
Aperture: f/1.4
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO Speed: 800
Day 257 - The Pasta Experience
So if you remember back to mid December, I took a cooking class and made this to-die-for ravioli dish. I had the recipe so we were on a mission to duplicate it at home. Challenge number one - finding pre-made pasta for the ravioli. I was told by the chef at the class that you could find it at any grocery store freezer section - after calling nearly every possible grocery and speciality store in Southeastern Wisconsin with no luck, I decided to try these small flat lasagna noodles that come in a box like regular store bought pasta. I figured all I needed to do was boil them and presto - we'd have the wrappers for our ravioli. Well friends, that simply did not work - when we tried to fill them they just tore open. At this point it was probably 9pm - and our only option was to make the pasta dough ourselves. Now I have never done this before - so we were heading into uncharted territory. Turned out I had JUST enough flour to make a batch. It took FOREVER to roll the dough thin enough to make the ravioli and it turns out, even what we ended up with was much too thick. We ate very late and it was not overly great - but it was an experience!Exposure: 1/500 sec
Aperture: f/1.4
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO Speed: 800
Day 256 - Glass and Beads
More of the Christmas themed photos. This is a pic of a "tree" made of small mirrors and beads. This is against the orange wall of my dining room.Exposure: 1/25 sec
Aperture: f/1.4
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO Speed: 800
Day 255 - Frosted Forest
We had a good snow storm today which subsequently buried the pile of chopped up tree that now sits in front of my garage. Not an overly exciting picture so I did a little "antique-ing" to it!Exposure: 1/40 sec
Aperture: f/1.4
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO Speed: 800
Day 254 - Carvings
Looks like I missed another day, so this one if from our trip out to Arizona for Christmas. When we were hiking at Christmas Tree Pass there was an area of rock that had carvings all over. They were black on some areas which made them even more interesting! Exposure: 1/50 sec
Aperture: f/14
Focal Length: 24mm
ISO Speed: 250
Day 253 - Stripes and Bokeh
As I've been doing this project I have found that as the seasons change, so does my focus on objects to photograph. The holidays are clearly upon us! This is one of my favorite ornaments - a group of friends and I used to do an ornament exchange every year and this is one I gave as gifts one year. I always bought myself one of the ones I gave away too! I love the bokeh from the lights on the tree as well!Exposure: 1/30 sec
Aperture: f/1.4
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO Speed: 800
Day 252 - Peace
This house near me does this every holiday season. It looks really cool when there is a full snow cover over it as the lights get a little muffled by the snow, but still show through. Because of the lack of snow on this particular day the pic was not that fantastic, so I played with some presets to give it a little more excitement!Exposure: 1/40 sec
Aperture: f/1.4
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO Speed: 1600
Day 251 - Wish
A festive photo of my fireplace mantle during the holidays!Exposure: 1/10 sec
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO Speed: 1600
Day 250 - Lemon PEZ
You all thought I gave up on my project, didn't you??!! Well I didn't, it just fell VERY VERY behind in posting to my blog. So here is to catching up! This pic was actually from the day before as I must have been bad again! More playing around with my new lens!Exposure: 1/50 sec
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO Speed: 1600
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Day 249 - Into the Wild Blue Yonder
I was playing around with my macro lens that I got for Christmas and thought crayons would a fun subject! I just love all the names they give the colors.Exposure: 1/15 sec
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO Speed: 1600
Day 248 - It's a Bird... It's a Plane...
Oh wait, it's not Superman, it's Batman! Happy New Year's Eve all! We had a great night with friends playing Wii and over indulging! Here's to a fantastic 2010!(Played with some blur filters on this shot!)
Exposure: 1/8 sec
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 40mm
ISO Speed: 1600
Day 247 - Desert Hike
I seem to have some issues getting pictures taken when I'm off work. Missed another day, so this is a shot from our last day in Arizona while we were hiking. This area has some neat hieroglyphics on the rocks. Exposure: 1/1250 sec
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 35mm
ISO Speed: 250
Day 246 - Big Kids
A day out sledding with the kids - some bigger than others! Fun was had by all and much hot chocolate enjoyed afterwards! Exposure: 1/250 sec
Aperture: f/10
Focal Length: 84mm
ISO Speed: 200
Day 245 - Woody
Late night and last minute photo. At least Woody was willing to pose for me! I played around with color saturation (or desaturation as the case my be) on this image.Exposure: .6 sec
Aperture: f/10
Focal Length: 73mm
ISO Speed: 1600
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Day 244 - Life
So it appears that I do not have a picture for today. This shot is from our trip out to Arizona/Nevada for Christmas at Red Rock Canyon. Love how you can have all the stone and then a tree growing seemingly out of no where. Exposure: 1/800
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 90mm
ISO Speed: 160
Day 243 - Jagged Horizon
Out last day in Arizona for our Christmas trip. We had a red eye flight later that night so we spent the day at my mom's. We decided to go for a hike at Christmas Tree Pass and of course I took my camera! It was a great day - a little chilly and a little overcast but so beautiful in the desert. This is one of my favorite shots of our hike. I love how the clouds look around the sun and the textures of the earth below.Exposure: 1/640 sec
Aperture: f/16
Focal Length: 32mm
ISO Speed: 250
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Day 242 - Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to All! Well I took a few pictures of the turkey, but they just weren't cutting it, so I had to move into my family shots. As you can see, I'm actually in this picture, but technically I did still take it as I set the timer and clicked the button! This was the Bauman clan (and their significant others) that were able to make it to Arizona for Christmas and to celebrate my grandma's 80th birthday!Exposure: 1/3 sec
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 32mm
ISO Speed: 500
Day 241 - Rusted Slumber
It's Christmas Eve and believe it or not, I did not get a picture in today! So I'll use one from yesterday. On our ATV tour we stopped at an old mining area and hiked around a bit. Laying there in the gravel was an old mattress spring. It looked pretty cool - so I took a few shots of it! I didn't do any post processing to this shot.Exposure: 1/1000 sec
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 65mm
ISO Speed: 250
Day 240 - Desert Adventure
Today was the family ATV tour in the desert! I have to say it was a blast! We were out for over 3 hours in all different types of terrain. My grandma even went with us - and she just turned 80! The only bad thing was that even with sunglasses on, I got SO much dust in my eyes they hurt for a few days!
Exposure: 1/500
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 32mm
ISO Speed: 320
Day 239 - Canyon Snow
Day two of our trip at Christmas was to visit the Grand Canyon. We drove over 5 hours the night before to get there and I had big plans to get up early to get to the best viewing area for sunrise photos. Unfortunately Mother Nature had different plans for us. When we got up - it was snowing like mad and already had 3-4 inches on the ground. We still made our way to the viewing area (not easily - the roads were horrible) but you couldn't even get down to it because they had closed it off due to the snow! At that point we decided to go get breakfast at a hotel restaurant in the park. After we finished eating it had nearly stopped snowing so we were able to see a little of the canyon (as seen here). Overall it was a little disappointing as there was so much haze and clouds that you couldn't see down into the canyon at all - which I'm guessing is were you get the hugely immense sense of beauty and grandness of it. But I did see the Grand Canyon in a snow storm - so there!Exposure: 1/3200 sec
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 24mm
ISO Speed: 1600 (accounts for the grain in the shot)
Day 238 - Contemplation
We were out visiting my mom for Christmas and we spent a day hiking in Red Rock Canyon just outside of Las Vegas. It was a beautiful day for hiking - just a little brisk. We were walking back on one of the trails and I saw this guy just sitting and looking out at the beautiful view. He looked so peaceful - reflecting, contemplating.Exposure: 1/1600 sec
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 55mm
ISO Speed: 160
Day 237 - Recombobulation
Come on Julie, that is not a real word... on the contrary it is! Well at least it's being used at Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin! This would be the area at the end of the security checkpoint with a table and a handful of chairs where you get to re-dress and re-pack everything you had discombobulated to go through! It just screamed for a picture - albeit a pretty lame one!Exposure: 1/160 sec
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO Speed: 1600
Day 236 - Cooking Class
Ray bought me a personal session with a local chef for a cooking class and today was the big day! I told them the type of things I was looking to learn and they chose a dish that fit. We ended up making shrimp and scallop ravioli with saffron cream sauce - it was SOOO freggin good! I had a great time making it, learned a lot, and LOVED eating the end product! As a side note, I tried to make them at home but had an unfortunate turn of events on the pasta dough and ended up trying to make my own (never done before) with just a rolling pin. Needless to say I they were WAY too think - but such an adventure we had trying!Exposure: 1/60 sec
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO Speed: 400
Friday, January 29, 2010
Day 235 - Guardian Angel
One more cheater day for a bit (I hope!). This was one of the top pics from my shots at this cemetery but I didn't use it for that day's post. So this is a perfect opportunity to incorporate it in! You see, the one drawback to posting only one picture each day is that sometimes you get that great day where you have more than one that you might want to use! The sky is my favorite part of this pic!Exposure: 1/200 sec
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 65mm
ISO Speed: 250
Day 234 - Chevrolet
A few missed days coming up - so I went back in my (quite large) archive of photos for one today. I just had to get some shots of this car when I saw it on the side of the road. We were up in Door County and came across this gem! I just screamed out for an antique color wash!Exposure: 1/80 sec
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 58mm
ISO Speed: 400
Day 233 - Brittle
Mmmmmm one of my favorite things to make around the holidays - peanut brittle! I believe this was a batch I whipped up for some Christmas goodie boxes!Exposure: 1/60 sec
Aperture: f/5.0
Focal Length: 73mm
ISO Speed: 1600
Day 232 - Fridge Frosty
Not a very creative day for a picture but still a little fun. This is a magnet set that you put on the refrigerator (presuming its white) to make a fridge frosty! Exposure: 1/20 sec
Aperture: f/5.0
Focal Length: 28mm
ISO Speed: 1600
Day 231 - From Above
Another day I apparently forgot to take a pic. This one is from our trip to Door County earlier in the month. We were in Peninsula State Park and climbed up the tower. The original was ok - I liked the curves of the road and the sparse look of the bare trees, but the color was pretty drab. So I tried to give it a boost with high contrast black and white. I really like how it turned out!Exposure: 1/320
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 32mm
ISO Speed: 400
Day 230 - Enlightened
So a little warning as we get further into December - I seemed to have my forgetful hat on a lot and had my share of missed days! But 230 days into this crazy project and I refuse to give up! This was one of those days - so I pulled up this pic from our Christmas light viewing in Cathedral Square. I love the light on the church an that most of the Christmas lights in the shot were blue or white!Exposure: 1/6 sec
Aperture: f/5.0
Focal Length: 24mm
ISO Speed: 1000
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