Theme 310 - Camera

This was Thomas Plant's camera and it's case. He's the man who had the Castle in the Sky built and once owned it. It was made in the U.S.A. by Eastman Kodak! I'm pretty happy I got a picture of this because it was in a closet room that we weren't allowed to enter and I stepped in to grab a picture before one of the "security" people came walking by.

Heres another photo of the camera:

Theme 172 - Black & White

The same pink car from my previous car post. I really love how it turned out in black and white, probably more so in color. I was kinda torn with these car photos in either putting them in retro or vintage or (obviously) car.

Heres the same picture in color:

Theme 246 - Swing

This is a swing that looks like a horse at the Castle in the Clouds. Behind it was the horse stable which has now been turned into a restaurant.

Theme 334 - Car

I went to NH/MA with my boyfriend to visit his parents. While there his parents took us to Castle In The Clouds; if you ever go to northern NH or live around there this is a must see! Anyway, on the way up the mountain theres little stop points to check out the scenery and on our way back to our car from one of the spots two wicked sweet cars pulled up! They each had awesome license plates too; the orange with "FAB50S" and a pink car with "LUVBIRD".
Here is the pink car:


PS. I apologize for not posting in a while, like I said before I was out of state and then the fall semester started so I didn't get much time to work of my photos from the trip.

Theme 161 - Sky

It feels so good to post this. I've been wanting to catch a photo of the moon for a long long time now. It took me two nights to try and figure out the right aperture and shutter speed to have my camera on to get this shot; a lot came out with just a big ball of white for the moon. I intend to catch a photo of all my main points of the moon (first quarter, half, second quarter) and then get it into one big picture with a photo of the Eclipse (if I get lucky - It wont be until next year though) in the middle. That's the plan at least.

As for the theme sky, I know the best time to take a photograph is at dawn and dusk and considering the project calls for photo's of that sort, I figured sky would be the best - and there's a whole lot of it. :]

Theme 261 - Gold

A lovely old couple have a beautiful garden in front of their house. They change it every year and I always look forward to seeing what it looks like year after year. This year they had gorgeous sunflowers! I snuck up and grabbed a shot before work the other morning.

Theme 266 - Sweets

Yum! Yum! Yum! Yum! I love Strawberries dipped in chocolate! I like cake and ice cream and all that good stuff, but this is definitely what I think of when I hear sweets. I used Hersey's Chocolate and added a bit of water to it while heating it up (it tends to dry and then burn really fast without the water) Now that I look at it I probably could have used a little less water, but it was good (and the photo turned out good) non-the-less. I took the photo outside, which I hoped to give me some nice natural lighting but I came out too late and the sun was already hidden behind houses and trees. I placed the strawberries on two white pieces of cardboard paper; one for the bottom and one for the back. I think it did the trick, hopefully you think so too.

Theme 236 - Dog

This is my dog, Scooch! Scooch is yawning! He's a big dog; full blooded German Sheppard. He's got the greatest personality a dog could ever have! He's a big baby when it comes to thundering and lightening though, he'll open up my bedroom door and run between my legs leaving a trail of big balls of fur! He thinks he is king of the house too; he wont move for the vacuum, he'll push you out of the way going up/down the stairs, he'll sneeze on your feet, and sometimes he likes to attack Pancakes (My bunny), but only when he wants your attention.

This is a picture I took of him when I first bought my camera, but still in the 2008 time frame. my dad says it's a great picture of him and that he was wondering why I haven't already posted this yet.

Here is another of him from the same day.

EDIT: sorry you can't view the pictures at a bigger size, again these were taken earlier in the year and the regular picture was destroyed (along with hundreds more pictures) with my external hard drive. :(

Theme 175 - Crowd

This was from the Seaside Heights Boardwalk in NJ, my boyfriend and I went on Saturday night. It's always crowded in the summer; it's one of NJ main beach tourist attractions. That long green light in the left corner is a ride called the "Tower of Fear" It shoots you up drops you, then shoots you to the very tippy top (which is taller than you can see because the lights don't reach the top) and then drops you again and kinda does this bouncy type thing to bring you down. Mark made me go on it and my heart nearly jumped out of my body, it was fun though. I had to take my glasses off and hold them in my hand, and when we got off I had sweat all over them. >_<

Theme 38. Such Great Heights

Saturday morning was my Dad's and my first photography outing. We were trying to find some hiking trails with waterfalls, but we ended up making this a small trip due to it being our first. (We actually ended up right down the street from our house at some kind of nature reservation that we never knew about.)

This would probably be the only photograph I liked from our outing, and I really like it! It has a slightly funny story with it; we saw these extremely tall plants with these yellow flowers (Sorry not sure what they are called) on the top, and I mean extremely tall - I'm tempted to call this "Reaching For The Sky" because that's exactly what they looked like they were doing. My dad and I stopped to look at them and then I decided to try to get a photograph, my dad stayed back and actually took a photograph of me! I showed him what I got and he goes "wow, that's really great" and then walks over to another plant and takes the same picture! :D (Sorry Dad, I had to share! <3)

Update/News

Sorry I haven't been posting much lately, school and work have been making things a bit hectic but I'm going to try to catch up on everyones post.

In other news, I've come to the conclusion that I rather have quality pictures than quantity, so with that I probably wont make my 366 goal. I know bummer, right? My goal is to become better, not rush to make the deadline. I'm not saying I'm going to post the most amazing stuff ever, but I want it to be "good" so I can learn and become "great". This also means that I would love to have constructive criticisms, both good and bad - I wont learn until I hear what I'm doing wrong. I'm not forcing anyone to comment my pictures, but I do ask if you think something is wrong, let me know. :)

Last but not least, and some of you may not even care, but I've decided that after I get my associates in ART I'm going to switch my major to photography. I have a bit of trouble sticking to one thing but I'm going to devote myself to this. I was looking at the AI schools in both Seattle and Boston, and my friend Heather told me about a school called Hallmark Institute of Photography, so I'd like to check that out as well. I still have some time to decided though (roughly a year, perhaps a little more).

Ok, that's it! :]