#53 - Cabin

Photograph a Day number fifty-three.

#52 - Kathryn and Train

Photograph a Day number fifty-two.

#51 - Toy Car

Photograph a Day number fifty-one.

#50 - Rainy Daylily

Photograph a Day number Fifty.

#49 - Hood Ornament

Photograph a Day number forty-nine.

#48 - Rose on Black

Photograph a Day number forty-eight. This will make nice art for the wall.

#47 - Bass Guitar

Photograph a Day number forty-seven. My bass guitar is finally making its appearance.

#46 - Simply a Rose

Photograph a Day number forty-six.

#45 - Lacy Lounging

Photograph a Day number forty-five. Lacy knows that she is not allowed on the couch. To get around this rule, she keeps her back feet on the floor so technically she is not all the way on the couch. It's like the rule in the older movies where the actors had to have at least one foot on the floor at all times in the bedroom scenes. I know that she is still getting fur on couch and that most of her body is on it, but she cracks me up so much that I can't make her get off.

#44 - Happy Birthday Brandon

Photograph a Day number forty-four. Today is Brandon's birthday. Happy birthday son! To see pictures of a much younger Brandon go to Jamie's blog.

Boxless

The strange guy that lives on the corner, might be how some of my neighbors describe me. They have watched me stand on top of the entrance sign for the neighborhood, run across the front yard carrying an opened ladder, and laying on my stomach in our flowerbed, all while holding a camera in my hand.

I titled this post boxless because I'm trying to remove myself from the standard type of photographs, or shoot outside the photography box, at least for some shots. By becoming more boxless, I hope to become a better photographer. I’m trying to see the world around me in different ways; capture things that others may walk past and not even give a second glance. Sometimes I get a shot just the way I wanted it, matching that mental picture I have of it. But, there are other times when it is nothing like I thought; which could be good or bad.

I'm learning more about photography every single day. It is important to me that I learn something from every photo shoot. If I ever stop learning, I can't improve the quality of my photographs. So, I’ll continue to be the strange guy on the corner taking pictures of weird stuff. But I can guarantee this; I’ll have a smile on my face while doing so.

#43 - Shadows

Photograph a Day number forty-three.

#42 - Hog

Photograph a Day number forty-two. The front of my Dad's Harley. To read more about our biker gang family read Jamie's blog.

#41 - Trees

Photograph a Day number forty-one.

#40 - My Niece

Photograph a Day number forty. This is her camera face. Whenever the camera was pointed at her this is the look I got.

#39 - Honeybee

Photograph a Day number thirty-nine.

#38 - Dandelion

Photograph a Day number thirty-eight.

#37 - Sunflower

Photograph a Day number thirty-seven.

#36 - Lightning Lacy

Photography a Day number thirty-six. The greyhound in her really comes out at times.

#35 - Moon

Photograph a Day number thirty-five.

An even closer view of the moon. I took this one last night and liked it better.

#34 - Daylily

Photograph a Day number thirty-four.

#33 - Gate

Photograph a Day number thirty-three. I thought this gate would look nice in black and white.

#32 - Bird Calling

Photograph a Day number thirty-two. While on a walk with Lacy this bird in a tree starting squawking at us, so I decided to shoot it (with the camera that is).

#31 - Lacy

Photograph a Day number thirty-one. Lacy playing with something in the grass.

#30 - Police Car

Photograph a Day number thirty. Mayberry never had a car like this. I saw it sitting at a park and had to stop and take the shot. If the officer would have been around I would have ask him to turn on the lights, that would have been a nice shot.