Besties Photography is Here!

For those of you who just couldn't get enough of my photographic adventures - you are in luck! My bestie Amy and I have teamed up to do a weekly photo project!

Established in 1984 and still going strong!

Besties Amy and Julie have teamed up for a year-long photography project. Each week we'll choose an adjective (from A - Z) and both take a picture of what we feel best captures the selected word. We will post both pictures side by side each week for some unplanned, but unique, combinations!

Check us out at: http://bestiesphotography.blogspot.com

Day 204 - Moola

I do find it amazing how many random things I can find around the house to take pictures of (hey - I never said they were good pictures!). I used my close-up lens here. Overall I liked the angle of this shot.

Exposure: 1/15 sec

Aperture: f/4.0

Focal Length: 60mm

ISO Speed: 800

Day 203 - Be Delicious

One of my favorite fragrances - and I love the bottle! Turned out with a nice reflection off the dresser too.

Exposure: 1/100 sec

Aperture: f/1.4

Focal Length: 50mm

ISO Speed: 800

Day 202 - Homemade Granola

One of my favorite breakfasts - homemade granola with milk -YUM! I love this recipe and it's pretty easy to make - only problem is that even when I double it - it only lasts about a week!

Exposure: 1/100 sec

Aperture: f/2.8

Focal Length: 50mm

ISO Speed: 800

Day 201 - Thirsty iPod

Kept forgetting to charge my iPod - makes for some long treadmill runs! It was a late night and I was scrounging for a picture!

Exposure: 1/50 sec

Aperture: f/1.4

Focal Length: 50mm

ISO Speed: 1250

Day 200 - Camera Mittens

Woo HOOOOO - Day 200!!! Can you even believe it?? I sure can't - neither can all the hard drive space I've eaten up with 200 days of pictures! Oh well - I'm loving it and having a blast! This is a pic of one of my birthday gifts from my thoughtful boyfriend - they are gloves with open fingers (and a hole in the thumb) with a mitten that folds back so that I can take pictures outside when it is cold and still keep my digits somewhat warm! Isn't he fantastic??!!

Exposure: 1/80 sec

Aperture: f/1.4

Focal Length: 50mm

ISO Speed: 640

Day 199 - Happy Birthday to Me

Yay - it's my birthday! We had an awesome dinner of fish taco's with coconut rice and cupcakes for dessert!

Exposure: 1/125 sec

Aperture: f/1.4

Focal Length: 50mm

ISO Speed: 640

Day 198 - No Soup for You!

One of my most favorite places for lunch - Richard has one of the BEST soup joints in Milwaukee! I had my camera in the car today so I decided to take a few shots on my way out!

Exposure: 1/6400 sec

Aperture: f/1.4

Focal Length: 50mm

ISO Speed: 160

Day 197 - Monkey!

I just loved these slippers that I found at Target a few weeks ago - so I bought them. A week later I convinced Ray that he needed a pair too! We would have bought Connor a pair, but they didn't have kids sizes (he got Spiderman slippers instead).

Exposure: 1/80 sec

Aperture: f/1.4

Focal Length: 50mm

ISO Speed: 800

Day 196 - Two Shirts

Day 2 of my birthday celebration weekend and we decided to go to dinner at Corpers - I had never been before (some of the best steak in town - if you can get past the smokey supper club atmosphere)! This is what I picked out for Ray to wear - not sure he was sold on it - but he wore it (and looked rather handsome, I must say!).

Exposure: 1/400 sec

Aperture: f/1.4

Focal Length: 50mm

ISO Speed: 1600

Day 195 - Chairs

We went out with a group of friends for drinks and dinner tonight to celebrate my birthday! Drinks at Indulge and dinner at La Merenda - this was our table at La Merenda. It was a fantastic night with great friends!

Exposure: 1/40 sec

Aperture: f/1.4

Focal Length: 50mm

ISO Seed: 1600

Day 194 - Lavender

I brought my mint and lavender pots into the house this fall to see if they would survive. I'm told mint is a weed that will just go dormant (it did - brown as can be now), but I wasn't sure what lavender would do. So far the leaves are still green - just no flowers.

Exposure: 1/80 sec

Aperture: f/4.0

Focal Length: 105mm

ISO Speed: 1600

Day 193 - Beautiful Sky

Now that daylight savings time has left us, getting any decent pictures in during the week is really hit or miss as its pitch black outside when I leave work. So I have been trying to take my camera to work so I can try and get out at lunch to get a few shots in. This was a shot I got of a church right next to Bradley Tech High School (on my way back from getting lunch at Soup Bros - BEST soup in Milwaukee). I did some playing with the vibrance of the colors in this one - I just LOVE the sky!

Exposure: 1/8000 sec

Aperture: f/16

Focal Length: 50mm

ISO Speed: 1600

Day 192 - Flower Reflections

I got my hair cut tonight, and my salon sometimes has jewelry for sale. They had these awesome rings that I just had to have. This is a rink that is probably between the size of a quarter and half dollar in circumference. It chunky and funky and I loved it! It might be slightly over exposed, but I loved the look of this pic.

Exposure: 1/30 sec

Aperture: f/1.4

Focal Length: 50mm

ISO Speed: 1600

Day 191 - See the Light

So I roped Ray into my daily photo today. I had wanted to play with light painting, so I got him a flashlight, turned off all the lights and told him "move around". It took a few shots - but we eventually got the hang of it! This turned out to be one of my favorite shots!

Exposure: 3.2 sec

Aperture: f/18

Focal Length: 50mm

ISO Speed: 1600