Wednesday, 6 July 2011, Day 225/365.
A bit after 5pm I stood up at my desk and took this photo. I don’t think there were any people sitting at any of the workstations you can see here. Very quiet indeed.
I too was gone not long afterwards.
Tuesday, 5 July 2011, Day 224/365.
One thing I can’t do at the moment is take close-up photos with the iPhone especially in low-light situations like the above.
Apparently all I need to do to take macro photos with the iPhone, or any phone, is get a jeweller’s loupe or magnifying glass. I must give it a go.
Flickr have an iPhone macro group with some stunning photos and some other more extreme methods of taking macro photos with the iPhone.
Monday, 4 July 2011, Day 223/365.
Two guesses as to what this is. When I first looked at it on the phone screen I couldn’t really tell but at this size it’s fairly easy.
There’s no prizes for guessing correctly except your own satisfaction.
I wrote recently about having a good photographic eye but there’s a lot more to taking a photo that you’re happy with than having a good eye for composition, subject matter etc.
Some days for my photo a day project I’ll take one or two photos specifically to post for the day. Other days I’ll take heaps of photos and find it hard to choose which one is ‘it’ for the day.
This particular day I took 18 photos. To many people that’s probably not very many but when you’ve got a six month old puppy that’s not your own on a lead and daren’t let him go, it was a pretty good effort. Quite often I take photos when out walking my dog and it’s hard to take a shot when she’d rather be sniffing something over there thank you very much.
Below are eight photos from the 18 that I took with my eventual photo of the day choice.
This one, while it’s following the rule of thirds – ie one third is the sky, and the other two thirds are the ground – there’s not that much else going for it.
The photo below didn’t work out because there’s no real focus on anything.
I do really like this one because of the subject matter and that look that he’s giving me but I didn’t go with this one for my photo of the day choice in the end.
And I didn’t choose this one because I only really got the top of his head, so again, there’s no real focus on anything.
I shot this photo through a wire fence so it was hard to compose the photo how I would have liked and the lens on the Hipstamatic probably wasn’t the best choice.
This one was okay, but it looks like the landscape’s on a lean so it didn’t make the cut. Soursobs are out in force this time of year and I do like the yellow.
This would have been worth considering if Monty was a bit clearer. For a 14 or so year old dog she’s looking very jaunty and she had a great time on this walk running back and forth off the lead. Dog bliss!
Below is the photo I chose. It was a toss-up between this one and the one where the pup is looking over his shoulder at me. I eventually went with this one because it seemed just that bit more interesting. There’s just enough of him in one corner to look at and I’m down at his level more so you can see that the grasses are that much taller than him. I liked the amount of blue sky too.
I’m sure it’s fairly subjective and another person might have picked another photo.
Sunday, 3 July 2011, Day 222/365.
See my Photo a day project on Flickr.
Saturday, 2 July 2011, Day 221/365.
So far this season we’ve been lucky with the rain staying away during the game. Not so this particular Saturday.
At least I got to stand under my umbrella all rugged up and stay relatively dry compared to the boys playing football.
Usually there’s some complaints of being cold, but not this time that I heard. They actually played quite well and won their game.
I’m not sure whether that’s because JJ and one of his mates played for the other side.
With one thing and another JJ hasn’t been that inspired to play this year and I’m not pushing him. He doesn’t complain about having to play but I’ve seen him play a lot better in previous years.
There’s not too long to go before this season finishes and we’ll see what happens next year.
Friday, 1 July 2011, Day 220/365.
This fence always catches my eye when I walk past it on my neighbourhood walks with the dog.
The yard, like the fence, hasn’t been tended for a fair while and could do with some work but it’s interesting to look at and I never take photos of the ‘tidy’ fences.
In fact, I realised after I’d chosen this photo for my ‘photo of the day’ that I’d already used this fence for my daily subject matter. It’s the same fence, just from a different angle. I prefer the photo at the top. You?
Thursday, 30 June 2011, Day 219/365.
When I was a kid we used to use handkerchiefs to blow our noses. I remember mum washing them by boiling them up in a bit pot reserved especially for this job, and then she probably put them through the washing machine. Our laundry was in a separate out-building so that process was usually quite removed from my day-to-day activities.
It was then my job to iron the hankies, as we called them. It was a job I didn’t mind doing probably because it was quite easy and we all had specific jobs to do as kids.
I couldn’t imagine doing this now. And I don’t know anyone who uses hankies to blow their noses any more. I especially couldn’t imagine how many hankies I would go through when I’ve got a runny nose.
I also couldn’t imagine having to get my son to dispose of his snotty hankies in the appropriate spot. It’s bad enough with tissues that I find lying around on all sorts of surfaces which drives me nuts and I can only imagine how many hankies he would go through when he’s got a snotty nose.
An aside. The Surfer doesn’t usually have a tissue stash like I do and his son in particular gets hayfeverish so often has to blow his nose. If there’s no tissues around he uses toilet paper which he throws straight into the toilet. He did this at my place one day and didn’t flush it at all, and I have tissues. I guess it was just his habit to get some toilet roll to blow his nose. I needed to use the toilet and thought I’d flush beforehand because it was looking a bit full but it didn’t flush. I wasn’t very pleased. I had a bit of a go at trying to unblock and then passed the job onto The Surfer as it was his son who’d left the loo paper in the toilet.
Another aside. When in India I saw lots of people blow their nose by blocking off one nostril and blowing the snot out of the other nostril onto the street. I’m pretty sure this would be frowned upon in most or all first-world countries and it’s not something I want to make a habit of. I don’t know if I prefer that to the annoying sniff though.
Back to the handkerchief. I tried to buy a handkerchief for my son so as a Scout he would be prepared. It was a suggestion from his scout leader. I couldn’t find one so he’s ill-prepared for his snotty nose should he get one. Ill-prepared unless he uses toilet paper or the block one nostril and blow out the other method.
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