Spent the day drawing and painting, forgot about my photo until nearly bedtime again.
0.6 sec, f / 4.0, ISO 400.
069: candlelight
068: by the sea
COMPLETELY forgot to take a picture today. Just about to go to bed, and I remembered. Here’s a quickie of a seashell laying on my bed in the dark, with a flashlight hiding under the covers.
20 sec, f / 14, ISO 400.
067
lightpainting for the first time. I accidentally made a flower!
30 sec, f / 10, ISO 400.
066: hearts 2
I meant to do something more creative than this today, but I also meant to do a lot of things today that I didn’t do.
1/250sec, f / 13, ISO 400.
065: more of my cat
I feel bad with how often I take photos of my cat. But then I think that other people have spouses and children to take photos of, and I don’t. So here’s two cute ones of my cat this morning. He was trying to attack my lens.
1/8sec, f / 3.5, ISO 400.
1/8sec, f / 3.5, ISO 400.
064: hearts
Somebody turned around in our driveway this morning, and left us with two hearts.
1/320sec, f /11, ISO 400.
063: life from the ground up
1/60sec, f / 8.0, ISO 400.
062: The Night
My house had a showing this evening (it is for sale), so I had to be scarce for a bit while my landlord showed it to an entire family, with kids and everything, and I came home to something on my wall which was knocked down, but I digress…
Anyhow, I took myself, my camera, and my tripod out for a walk to see if I could come up with anything interesting. Well known fact: Smithers turns into a ghost town after 6PM, and even my attempts at highway photography proved fruitless. It’s hard to take streaky car photos when there’s only one every minute or two.
I can’t decide between two photos that I took, so I will share both of them. The first one was taken behind my house in the alleyway, where the only light is the neighbour’s light to his shed. The second was taken up the street, and see what I mean about deserted?
5 sec, f / 6.3, ISO 400.
2 sec, f / 5.6, ISO 400.
And one more from my phone, because it’s adorable. Look! It’s my two favourite things.
A cat and his camera.
iPhone
061: Reason #102 why I didn’t take a photo until now
Yep.
Reddit.
1/50sec, f / 4.0, ISO 400.
060: a painting
Took a one day art class on mixed media on Saturday, and this is one of the paintings I made.
1/80sec, f / 7.1, ISO 400.
(Watercolour paper. Watercolour, acrylic, and oil pastel. K. Doyon 2013)
059
my winter wreath, finally retired from my door, and awaiting the next bonfire.
1/250sec, f / 10, ISO 400.
058: Smithers Sawmill
Went for a walk this morning with SIX dogs (six!) and passed the hill above the sawmill. It’s not a great photo. Actually, none of them have been great lately. Taking a photo a day is easy. Taking the best photo I can take each day, well, that’s pretty hard.
Photoshop CS5.
057: it’s a big world out there
It was actually warm enough outside today that my (completely afraid of the cold) cat wanted to go and explore a bit.
1/400sec, f / 13, ISO 800.
056
Apparently, it’s Valentine’s Day today, or something.
1/200sec, f / 11, ISO 800.
055: Eradicate the Enemy
My newest wall adornment: a tea towel I bought at the Emilie Autumn concert last week. A tea towel. How cool is that? I cropped it so it’s just the content, as my deep red wall doesn’t take very good photos.
1/60sec, f / 5.6, ISO 800.
054 – kinda late, oops
Not a great photo, and it’s late besides. Yesterday was kinda hectic, and not worth the trouble to dig my camera out of my carry-on. I took a sunset photo, too, but there was too much lens flare, and I didn’t like it.
1/60sec, f / 5.6, ISO 800.
053: little photographer
My last day in Vancouver before I head back home, and I tried to convince my little brother to have a bit of a photo shoot with me. Mom unearthed some old Fujica cameras that my grandpa gave her, and I was trying to teach my brother about how cameras didn’t used to have screens where you could see the pictures right away, and that you had to send your ‘film’ away before you could see your pictures.
He thought I was crazy, and that it was a stupid idea.
1/8sec, f / 4.0, ISO 400.
He kept posing like this until I told him it looked like he had boobies.
Swapped to my prime lens here, and increased my ISO. He can’t stand still. There were a lot of really (I mean, REALLY) blurry photos.
1/100sec, f / 2.8, ISO 800.
1/80sec, f / 2.5, ISO 800.
1/100sec, f / 2.8, ISO 800.
“What the heck does this do?”
1/80sec, f / 2.5, ISO 800.
It took a ton of conniving and asking and pleading to get him to repeatedly pose like this until I got a shot I wanted. Damn kid, quit wiggling!
1/125sec, f / 2.8, ISO 800.
The last photo I took, I let him be as silly as he wanted to. He chose this. I thought he looked like a zombie, so I edited it accordingly. All his little freckles make him look a bit diseased. I like it.
052: When the sun shines, it pours
I made a two hour voyage by transit today in Vancouver just to go visit the sea for 30 minutes. Worth it.
Canon Rebel XS. 1/400sec, f / 16, ISO 400.
(English Bay)
Canon Rebel XS. 1/640sec, f / 16, ISO 400.
(graffiti on Davie St)
Canon Rebel XS. 1/400sec, f / 18, ISO 400.
(Canada Place, with the mountains peeking from behind)
Canon Rebel XS. 1/10sec, f / 3.5, ISO 400.
ME!
Fiddy-One Cents (051)
Canon Rebel XS. 1/4sec, f / 4.5, ISO 1600.
My sister – on the right – and her friend getting ready for a party (apparently people do that on Saturday nights?)
050: Mom’s cat, part three
I can’t believe I’ve been doing this for fifty whole days. I don’t do anything for fifty days in a row. Not even work.
Mom’s ‘other other’ cat. Java, who I refuse to call anything but Kitler, because he likes to attack my face when I sleep. He’s also really hard to take photos of. My camera wouldn’t even focus, and I ended up having to take the picture manually.
Canon Rebel XS. 1/15sec, f / 1.8, ISO 1600.
049: Mom’s cat, part two
Mom has more than one cat. In fact, she has three.
Here’s her other cat (and tomorrow will be her ‘other-other’ cat).
Meet Marley. His face is crooked because of an awful car accident last year. He’s pretty lucky to be alive.
Mom loves him to pieces.
Canon Rebel XS. 1/60sec, f / 2.2, ISO 800.
048: Schrödinger’s Cat
I put my mom’s cat, Mango into a box.
She stayed in the box.
She was a “cat in the box”.
So I took photos of her.
With her tongue out.
Canon Rebel XS. 1/60sec, f / 2.2, ISO 800.
047: that sibling face
Took a quick pic of my brother eating cake early this morning, as I’ve spent the entire day downtown wandering around in the rain, and then at an Emilie Autumn concert (of which I have some bad cell pics, but I didn’t want to risk taking my dSLR…)
Canon Rebel XS. 1/40sec, f / 5.0, ISO 1600.
(yes, I’m genetically capable of gingers)
046: An Average Evening
This photo was totally a fluke. I was frustrated at having not taken a photo, even though it was 8pm at night already, so I sneakily flung my camera over my shoulder and snapped a pic in my mom’s direction.
That’ll do, pig. That’ll do.
(In case you’re wondering, mom and I were watching Muppets in Space, and my little brother is on the laptop playing Minecraft)
Canon Rebel XS. 1/25sec, f / 3.5, ISO 1600.
045
Canon Rebel XS. 1/20sec, f / 5.0, ISO 400.
Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Buttercream Frosting, topped with mini Reese’s cups
044: pew pew pew
Canon Rebel XS. 1/160sec, f / 10, ISO 400.
Went shooting today out in Mission with my best friend, his wife, and his folks. The weather was awesome! The above picture is only four of the seven guns we shot today. There was a .303 enfield, .4570, 12 gauge mosberg, SKS, savage .22, 1022 takedown, and a .22 winchester.
and a bonus picture! Me and my baby (savage .22)
Canon Rebel XS. 1/400sec, f / 13, ISO 400.
043: # 1 best beer in a can!
Canon Rebel XS. 1/13sec, f / 5.6, ISO 400.
(not my fridge!)
042: awkward is awesome
Canon Rebel XS. 1/60sec, f / 5.6, ISO 400.
041: the catch-up, part three
Canon Rebel XS. 1/200sec, f / 11, ISO 400.
(wisdom, part two)
Canon Rebel XS. 1/125sec, f / 8.0, ISO 400.
Vancouver skyline on a grey day
040: the catch-up, part two
Canon Rebel XS. 1/50sec, f / 5.0, ISO 400.
(wisdom, part one)
039 – the catch-up, part one
I got tired of writing “Day Zero Three Nine” etc. It’s harder for my brain to remember, so I’m switching to numbers. Also, this is the first post of the catch-up. I’ve been away at a business conference for the last couple of days, doing 14 hour days on my feet, and only being in bed long enough to sleep a few hours before getting up to repeat. I’m skipping tonight to give my body some much needed sleep, so I figure I have time to catch up on my photos.
(I actually managed to take at least one photo a day, even though I was in conference and talks and, well, parties for the last 72 hours. Go me.)
Presenting: Drunk photography!
Canon Rebel XS. 1.3sec, f / 5.0, ISO 800.
the vancouver shore
Day Zero Three Eight: January Photo Challenge: SOMETHING WITH A “J”
Day 27 of the First Thirty-One over at Fourtuitous.com. Today’s challenge was “Something beginning with J”, and I’m CRAZY BUSY FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS, so posts will be delayed, but I’ve promised myself that I would still take the photos every day, but they aren’t gonna get posted till later.
Also, I’m drinking wine, this might not be very literary.
Wine is awesome.
(I read three chapters in Chapters (see what I did there?) and then I had to buy it. Yep. Starts with a J.)
Canon Rebel XS. 1/60sec, f / 5.6, ISO 800.
Here’s a picture.
Day Zero Three Seven: January Photo Challenge: CHILL
Day 26 of the First Thirty-One over at Fourtuitous.com (oh my god, I’m almost done with this!). Today’s challenge was “Chill”, and ain’t nobody chiller than Cindy!
I always have this little check-list of friends I have to get through whenever I come home for a visit, and no matter how short or long my visit to Vancouver, I’ve always got to go see Cindy. (but the visits are never long enough…)
Canon Rebel XS. 1/50sec, f / 6.3, ISO 800.
Canon Rebel XS. 1/8sec, f / 3.5, ISO 800.
Meet Zoey!
Canon Rebel XS. 1/13sec, f / 5.6, ISO 800.
~masks~
Day Zero Three Six: January Photo Challenge: HEAT
Day 25 of the First Thirty-One over at Fourtuitous.com, and the challenge was “Heat”.
I’m going to be pretty busy for the next 24 hours, so I took this picture early this morning before the sun came up. My mother’s pet lizard, Leroy, laying in the heat of his heat lamp in the early morn. It’s not a great photo, but it’ll have to do.
Canon Rebel XS. 1/200sec, f / 1.8, ISO 1600.
Day Zero Three Five: January Photo Challenge: GLASS
Day 24 of the First Thirty-One over at Fourtuitous.com, and the challenge was “Glass”.
(I can’t take credit for this idea at all, it was my mommy’s!)
Canon Rebel XS. 1/1000sec, f / 1.8, ISO 1600.
Day Zero Three Four: January Photo Challenge: DOORS
Day 23 of the First Thirty-One over at Fourtuitous.com, and the challenge was “Doors”.
“Hippies, please use the back door.” – a random sign I found in Vancouver. Home sweet home!
Canon Rebel XS. 1/50sec, f / 5.6, ISO 400.
Canon Rebel XS. 1/30sec, f / 5.0, ISO 400.
(The Sistine Chapel found its way to the sidewalk on Robson and…and…that street with the Chapters building. Thurlow?)
Canon Rebel XS. 1/50sec, f / 4.0, ISO 400.
Day Zero Three Three
I didn’t have time to do today’s photo prompt, but because I’m doing a 365, I have to post something. Not a great photo, but it’s what I spent the better part of today doing: packing.
Canon Rebel XS. 1/40sec, f / 1.8, ISO 1600.
Day Zero Three Two: January Photo Challenge: FLANNEL
Day 21 of the First Thirty-One over at Fourtuitous.com, and the challenge was “Flannel”. Just a quick shot of my jammies this morning. Tried to do something fun to it.
Canon Rebel XS. 1/13sec, f / 3.5, ISO 400.
…and my cat because he’s cute.
Canon Rebel XS. 1/25sec, f / 1.8, ISO 1600.
Day Zero Three One: January Photo Challenge: BARGAIN
Day 20 of the First Thirty-One over at Fourtuitous.com, and the challenge was “Bargain”.
I bargained with my digestive system this morning, hoping it could stomach the grease, wheat, and dairy in a Tim Horton’s breakfast sandwich, after a long night of being out at a concert.
It didn’t entirely work.
Canon Rebel XS. 1/250 sec, f / 4.5, ISO 400.
Day Zero Three Zero: I made a mistake.
I made my previous decision last night at 11PM (a time of evening when I am rarely cognizant). Nothing good ever comes of being awake past 11PM in my mind, and this is another instance of which it is utterly true. So, after your comments (and a text message or two), I apologize. In reality, I was shamed into continuing, simply because I never finish what I start. Ever. And I am hard on myself – I honestly believe almost every decision I’ve ever made has ended in failure. So, shamed and embarrassed for being such a twat, I’m going to continue the January Photo Challenge over at Fourtuitous.com. Today is Day 19, and the challenge was “Fur”.
Canon Rebel XS. 1/20sec, f / 5.6, ISO 1600.
(my bus sitting on a rabbit fur pelt)
Day Zero Two Nine: I quit.
Day 18 of the First Thirty-One over at Fourtuitous.com. Today’s challenge was “Close up”, and it will be the last photo I do for this challenge. I have spent eighteen days struggling to keep up with the photo prompts, and to be perfectly honest, I don’t find most of them to be all that interesting. Some of the prompts have led me to take what I consider to be rather interesting photographs, and perhaps ones I wouldn’t have otherwise thought of, such as Slumber, Change, and Growth, but for the most part, I’m just taking “photos”, when I would rather be taking art.
If you have an Instagram account, I recommend searching out other people’s photos, at #firstthirtyone, as some of them are quite good. But this photo challenge, I’m discovering, just really isn’t for me.
On Wednesday of next week, I leave for a conference in the city, and I just simply won’t be able to fulfill some of the prompts for that week. In fact, if I manage to post photos each of those days, I would be surprised, with how busy I’ll be.
Canon Rebel XS. 1/60sec, f / 5.0, ISO 1600.
Close-up of our fire this afternoon. I’m sorry, but no amount of editing can make this a decent photo.
So, I leave you with this. It warmed up to +8C today, when we should be having -15C weather. I built a snowman outside, in a t-shirt, and then we built a fire, and had hotdogs with some homemade baked beans I spent the day making. I ended the day with a few glasses of wine at Linda’s house, and after my cup of tea just now, I’m about to head to bed.
Bon soiree.
Canon Rebel XS. 1/400sec, f / 11, ISO 400.
Canon Rebel XS. 1/500sec, f / 14, ISO 800.
(Mr. Snowman)
Day Zero Two Eight: January Photo Challenge: SLUMBER
Day 17 of the First Thirty-One over at Fourtuitous.com! Today’s challenge was “Slumber”.
Canon Rebel XS. 1/30sec, f / 4.5, ISO 800.
(I awoke the beast from his slumber by taking photos!)
Day Zero Two Seven: January Photo Challenge: CHANGE
Day 16 of the First Thirty-One over at Fourtuitous.com! Today’s challenge was “Change”
Canon Rebel XS. 0.6sec, f / 5.6, ISO 800.
Day Zero Two Six: January Photo Challenge: BUNDLED
Day 15 of the First Thirty-One over at Fourtuitous.com! Today’s challenge was “Bundled”
I’ve gotten really good about taking my camera with me whenever I go out and about these days. Because of the crazy weather yesterday, everything was covered in hoarfrost today (why couldn’t you have been covered in frost yesterday? WHY?) and I went for a walk to the post office and to grab a bite to eat at a little organic diner we’ve got in town. So I took photos!
But first, my Photo of the Day: About once or twice a year, I settle in for an entire morning, and make homemade beeswax candles. My haul for today is this set of a dozen drip candles (plus six shotglass candles), all bundled up and ready to go.
Canon Rebel XS. 1/40sec, f / 4.0, ISO 400.
A few more shots from making candles this morning:
Canon Rebel XS. 1/13 sec, f/ 5.6, ISO 400.
Canon Rebel XS. 1/50sec, f / 4.5, ISO 400.
And now a few from my walk this morning. It turned out to be a pretty nice day!
Canon Rebel XS. 1/400sec, f / 14, ISO 400.
(trees covered in hoarfrost)
Canon Rebel XS. 1/250sec, f / 11, ISO 400.
(taken through my sunglasses, not edited)
Canon Rebel XS. 1/100sec, f / 8.0, ISO 400.
(om shanti, om)
…and that brings me to this. I went to Two Sisters for lunch today, and these pretty flowers were on the table I was eating at. So I snapped a quick pic in the sun, and for the LIFE of me, I can’t decide which edit I like the best. What are your preferences?
Day Zero Two Five: January Photo Challenge: FROST
Day 14 of the First Thirty-One over at Fourtuitous.com! Today’s challenge was “Frost”.
It warmed up to just a couple degrees below zero today, bringing in a massive fog bank that hasn’t bothered to lift all day. Haven’t been able to see much further than this tree all day, thanks to the frosty little molecules in the air.
Canon Rebel XS. 1/400sec, f / 16, ISO 400.
Day Zero Two Four: January Photo Challenge: CABIN FEVER
Day 13 of the First Thirty-One over at Fourtuitous.com! Today’s challenge was “Cabin Fever”.
Canon Rebel XS. 1/50sec, f / 5.0, ISO 400.
(the penultimate tale of cabin fever)
Day Zero Two Three: January Photo Challenge: FLAKES
Day 12 of the First Thirty-One over at Fourtuitous.com! Today’s challenge was “Flakes”.
With two-plus feet of snow on the ground, today’s challenge wasn’t much of a challenge at all (which is wonderful, because I’ve really struggled with a couple of them – for the sake of keeping things interesting, and all that…)
My photo for the day is lovely Lorraine during our snowshoe hike today. The day started wonderfully, and I dragged my sorry self out of bed and headed down to the farmer’s market to meet Linda (and get some fresh eggs! our chickens haven’t been producing lately in the valley, so eggs are in short supply). After lunch, we headed to Lorraine’s house and went snowshoeing up on the ridge overlooking town, and then down and across Col Lake.
It was a lovely way to spend the day.
Canon Rebel XS. 1/250sec, f / 13, ISO 400.
(lovely Lorraine)
And now a few extras!
Canon Rebel XS. 1/30sec, f / 3.5, ISO 400.
(the coveted item: farm fresh eggs)
Canon Rebel XS. 1/400sec, f / 13, ISO 400.
Hey look, I’m actually in a picture! I asked Lorraine to take a photo to prove I was on the hike (instead of the one photographing, like usual)
Canon Rebel XS. Photoshop CS5.
A pretty panorama of our ski slopes – Hudson Bay Mountain (on the right)
Day Zero Two Two: January Photo Challenge: WARMTH
Day 11 of the First Thirty-One over at Fourtuitous.com! Today’s challenge was “Warmth”.
After 30 frustrated minutes of trying to make my less-than-always-functioning camera take a decent self-shot of me being warm, I cajoled my roommate into ‘looking warm’ for me. His idea of ‘looking warm’ was to throw three quilts on, steal my cat, and snuggle on the couch for a minute. Thank you roommate for being a photo saver!
Canon Rebel XS. 1/50sec, f / 2.0, ISO 1600.
(bee’in warm)
Day Zero Two One: January Photo Challenge: SOCKS
Day 10 of the First Thirty-One over at Fourtuitous.com! Today’s challenge was “Socks”.
I have lots of pretty funky socks, but…how on earth do you make socks interesting? Here’s my best attempt with the socks I chose to wear today. They mismatch. I like it.
Canon Rebel XS. 1/100sec, f / 2.5, ISO 400.
Canon Rebel XS. 1/60sec, f / 2.2, ISO 400.
Day Zero Two Zero: January Photo Challenge: CHEEKS
Day 9 of the First Thirty-One over at Fourtuitous.com! Today’s challenge was “Cheeks”.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to take a self-photo with a 50mm prime lens? I had to strain my arms as far as they’d go just so it’d focus. But man, look at those sweet cheeks. Just look at them.
Canon Rebel XS. 1/200sec, f / 3.5, ISO 400.
WHAT is that face I’m making?
fall in love. take photos. repeat. 