Day 83: Grass on Blue

This reminds me of the beach, but it's at a house just around the corner from ours.

Manual: page 117 "Basic Camera Setting: World Time"

Inspiration: Kimberlee West

Day 82: Girl with the Pearl Earring

When it's rainy out and we are a little bored we recreate famous images. Here is the latest with Lindsey as the "Girl with the Pearl Earring."

Manual: page 117 "Basic Camera Settings: Video Mode"

Inspiration: Johannes Vermeer

Day 81: Porsche

The automobile that I can not afford.

Manual: page 117 "Basic Camera Settings: Mirror Lock-Up"

Inspiration: Rod Evans

Day 80: Moon and Tree

Most of the time I at least tweak the photos in Lightroom, giving them a little vignette and adjusting curves before posting them, but this photo is straight out of camera. The vignette on the bottom is coming from the trees behind me.

Technical info: 1/125 sec at f/8, ISO 100

Manual: page 116 "Basic Camera Settings: LCD Brightness"

Inspiration: Sandy Puc

Day 79: Red Sky

The sky colors that God shares with us are simply amazing.

Manual: page 116 "Basic Camera Settings:Format"

Inspiration: Started reading "VisionMongers: Making a Life and Living in Photography"

Day 78: One to Many

There was one power toy at my grandmother's house today, but many children. So one would drive and the others would chase behind trying to jump on the back.

Manual: page 115 "Basic Camera Settings: The Setup Menu"

Inspiration: Looked through a Norman Rockwell book form the library.

Day 77: A Stocking for Jesus

Remember the real reason for Christmas. To help remind us, we hang a stocking for Jesus on our tree. The note on it reads:

A Stocking for Jesus

Each Christmas we hang stocking with care,
And fill them with gifts for loved ones to share.
But do we forget that the first Christmas night
God gave us His Son who gave us His life?

A sacrifice so great... how can we repay?
We can say, "Thank you Jesus" on His birthday.
Hang a stocking for Jesus and fill it with love.
Do good deeds for others to thank God above.

Manual: page 112 "Printing Pictures One at a Time"

Inspiration: Tamara Lackey

Day 76: Arrows

The arrows that lead to nowhere. At least there is an arrow telling how to get back.

Manual: page 111 "Connecting the Printer"

Inspiration: Greg Gibson

Day 75: My Christmas Gifts

We opened our Christmas gifts early this year. My family is awesome; they got me just what I wanted. I've been looking for some cool new shirts, a camera grip strap, and a watch. Also after reading a few reviews on the "Vision Mongers" book, I just had to have it. Now I don't have to buy it. There was also a bonus the "Best Business Practices for Photographers" book and a "Crazy for Kenken" book that Jamie could not resist getting because as she put it, she is "Crazy for Ken Ken."

Manual: page 110 "Printing Photographs"

Inspiration: We were given a wonderful gift by new friends, the book "Time Great Discoveries Explorations that Changer History". I look at the amazing images in this book for today's inspiration.

Day 74: Cake

My nephew's birthday cake before the candles were placed on it. I thought I'd try food photography while I was there.

Manual: page 108 & 109 "Connecting the USB Cable"

Inspiration: Garrett Nudd

Day 73: A Gift for Me?

My niece helping give out Christmas gifts. She looks like a little doll in her dress.

Manual: page 107 "Connection to a Computer"

Inspiration: Jerry Ghionis

Day 72: Tree Reflections

Again you never know what you will see while going for a walk. This reflection caught my eye, I love the silhouette of the trees reflecting in the water.

Manual: page 106 "Viewing Photographs on TV" I have not tried this yet.

Inspiration: Jose Villa Photography

Day 71: Time

Every person is unique, but they all have something that is the same, the amount of time in a day. No matter how you look at it: 86,400 seconds; 1,440 minutes; or 24 hours; it's the same amount of time for every person on earth. How will you spend the time you have in a day? Just thought I would give you something to think about.

Manual: page 105 "Deleting Individual Photographs"

Inspiration: Yervant Photography

Day 70: Smile

I just wanted to remind everyone to smile.You are loved and have something to smile about. Thanks to Kathryn to being my model.

Manual: page 104 "Protecting Photographs from Deletion"

Inspiration: Kimberly Wylie

Day 69: Cup and Chair

After going to the courthouse for the last step in adoption, making Lindsey an official Worley; you can read more about it on Jamie's blog. We all went out for brunch at Sugar Cakes Patisserie. I noticed the back of the chairs had this cool steaming cup design carved in them.

Manual: page 103 "Taking a Closer Look: Playback Zoom"

Inspiration: Jules Bianchi

Day 68: The River Flows

I enjoy walking along rivers; there is just something peaceful about the sound of water flowing over rocks. If you look across the river at the trees on the other side, notice that the bottom eight to ten feet of the tree has a brown tint to it. The tint is from the floods that we had in Georgia back in September 2009. In fact the water would have been over my head in the spot that I was standing to make this shot.

Manual: page 102 " Viewing Multiple Images: Thumbnail Playback"

Inspiration: John Paul Caponigro

Day 67: Christmas Cactus

Jamie received a Christmas cactus as a gift from one of the ladies at a home school Christmas party. I had to use it for one of my photographs.

Manual: page 101 Highlights and Histogram from "Photo Information" I use Highlights when checking the photo in the display. Highlights are also know as the blinkies. If it's blinking I check the exposure again.

Inspiration: Julie Klaasmeyer

Day 66: Trees in the Fog

It was foggy this morning in Georgia.

Manual: page 100 "Photo Information Cont."

Inspiration: Alycia Alvarez

Day 65: The Stockings

The stockings are hung at our house. Including the newest stocking for Lindsey, whose adoptions will be final on Thursday.

Manual: page 99 "Photo Information"

Inspiration: Gerry O'leary

Day 64: Lacy's Present

Lacy sniffing her Christmas present. Do you think she already knows what is in there by the smell?

Manual: page 98 "Single-Image Playback"

Inspiration: Frederick Van

Day 63: Night Light

The lights add a nice touch to the architecture of the building.

Manual: page 97 "Two-Button Reset"

Inspiration: David Tejada

Techie Stuff: D200 ISO 800, 1/2 sec, f2.8, 70mm

Day 62: The Fire Guy

The Fire Guy performed for the Johnson Ferry middle school students.

Manual: page 96 " Using a GPS Unit"

Inspiration: Lin and Jirsa

Day 61: Faux Tilt-Shift

Photoshop was use to create a Tilt-Shift look to the above photograph. It's not perfect but it was fun creating it. Be sure to follow the link below to see about 100 tilt-shift images.

Manual: page 95 "Specifying Maximum Aperture"

Inspiration: Looked at Tilt-Shift images after seeing it on Tasra Dawsons Blog Yesterday.

Day 60: Lights

Christmas lights in the park.

Manual: pages 93 and 94 " Non-CPU Lenses"

Inspiration: Gabriel Ryan Photographers

Day 59: A Day at Work

These men unloaded boxes from a truck in the street, then stacked them on a pallet to move them into the building. They work in a building down the street from me. I saw them through the window and decided to grab my camera, walk outside and take the shoot of just "a day at work".

Manual: pages 89 & 90"Interval Timer Photography"

Inspiration: Jen Disney