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

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