January 16, 2009

  • PROGRESS REPORT

    Christmas is over - it was time to re-decorate. You like it? I haven't had a chance yet to use this beautiful header that was made for me almost a year ago. And I wasn't quite ready to let Edward go yet. LOL!

    One of my "101 missions" is to document progress on those missions in blogs and possibly with pictures. I reported the first completion the other day! Wohoooo! I am also so far making progress on

    #22 blogging at least once a week - ahead of schedule on that
    #39 WW lifetime - lost another 2 lbs, 4.4 more to go and maintaining for 6 weeks
    #61 wii fit 30 min every day - going strong and my sore muscles are proof
    #96 speak German with Rygar - a little bit every day
    #8 walk dogs every day - I picked up the slack again and did a 45 min walk every day this week so far and
    combining it with #6 - taking one good picture a day!

    I thought I'd let you decide if the pictures I took are "good" pictures (Can I just tell you, btw, how much I love a digital camera for that purpose! Every aspiring photographer knows that you have to take a gazillion pictures to get one great one. With the regular 35 mm that was always a chore and could get quite costly.) - So out of the 20 or so a day I have taken so far, here are my best shots. Let me know what you think!

    12 January 2009 - a little tree sprouting from the remains of his fallen comrade

    13 January 2009 - I couldn't decide
    I was walking the dogs and noticed the shadows on the street ...

    13 January 2009
    ... so I decided to take it a step further on a whim and do a whimsy self-portrait

    14 January 2009 - again I couldn't decide which one to chose
    I noticed this mailbox with the fence and the bell, kind of rugged, rural - but the only way I could compose the picture without getting the actual house in the background and ruin the rural effect was to shoot against the sun. Luckily the wind picked up at just the right moment and blew the flag in front of the sun for a nice effect.

     

    14 January 2009 - #2
    Sometimes I seem to have a certain theme. These plants (somebody help me with the name - lol) were glistening, actually sparkling in the sun. When I tried shooting it, I couldn't get the right effect with my little "point and shoot" camera. However, looking at it from a different angle I think I got a quite stunning shot. I'm always amazed at how good the "point and shoot" is with "against the sun" shots. I never got results that good with my SLR Film Camera, because I could never get the lighting quite right.

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