Project 26 | Post 22 | Spooky

I am afraid of the dark.  There, I said it.  I'm a grown up woman and I'm really afraid of the dark, especially outside.  Don't ask me to go wandering around outside at night.  This has caused a few conflicts over the years with Shawn.  He doesn't get it.  He also doesn't have a lot of compassion for the kids' fears of the dark, whereas I'm all "he can sleep with a lamp on next to his face for the next 50 years for all I care."

So now that my secret is out, I can share how I came to share this image for the theme of Spooky.  This time when the sun has just risen is glorious and beautiful.  I love beams of light working their ways through the trees.  However, this is still that very early time before the sun has fully broken up the fog.  Before shadows have grown shorter.  Before those nocturnal creatures have tucked their tails and headed for home.  So while I find it gloriously beautiful, I still feel this spookiness about this time.  This  opposite of twilight.  Not a time I would go wandering around the woods by myself... not that I'd really ever go wandering around the woods by myself.  That's just spooky, too.





Continue on with the circle and my awesome friend Jayme Franklin.

I shot these with my D90 Sigma 30mm f1.4

Food Styling Challenge | Black Background

Black.

Oh, that'll be soooo easy.  I've pinned some awesome food images with dark or black backgrounds and color schemes.  Love them.  I've so got this.

Did you hear that?  That sound of tires screeching to a halt?  Yeah. that was me.  Me NOT "so got this" about food and a black background.

So much harder than I expected.  I wasn't getting it.  I was so dissapointed.  And I was out of time.  This is as good as it gets, folks.  You better believe that once I get caught up on some life things, I'll be trying this out again.

One thing I learned is that these black or dark background images REQUIRE props.  And I'm not really a prop girl. So that'll take some research AND cash.  But at least I know it going forward now.  I suppose that means I did learn something.




Please visit my circle of Foodie Photog friends and see their versions of Black.  Next up is the fantastic and always witty Kay Pickens | Columbia MO Food Photographer.

I shot these with my D90 Sigma 30mm f1.4 Nikon 85mm f1.8 Nikon 50mm 1.4D

Project 26 | Post 21 | Me and Mine

Another month brings another Me and Mine.  This time I chose to document something that the Little Lady and I get to do every single day.  Car Pool Line.





I'm not sure why it is called Car Pool Line... because it seems that most children aren't car pooling.  It is just the parents who are picking up their children, instead of sending them home on the bus.  Alas.  It is truly called Car Pool Line, and we hang out there from 2:30 to 3:15ish every day.  Rocking it out in our Honda Odyssey.




The Lady spends that time playing games on the Ipad.   Her favorites are Reading Raven (awesome), and Toca Boca Butterfly, Toca Boca Hair Salon, Toca Boca Tea Party, and Toca Boca Doctor.  I usually update myself on facebook on my Droid NOTincredible, and reorganize my ever increasing to do list in my ErinCondren Planner.   Eventually when I get caught up with life and am not always so far behind in absolutely everything, I hope to do some reading during this time... eventually.  










(and to ward off any nasty comments, yes, I know her seat belt came unthreaded from her seat shoulder caps.  She was having so much fun doing this little photo session, wiggling, dancing, giggling, and goofing around that she pulled the seat belt right out of the loop!  No worries.  It was fixed before we reengaged in driving anywhere.)




Next up is my wonderful kindred spirit combination scientist and artist friend, Jayme Franklin.  Make sure to check out how my friends have captured themselves with their special ones.

I shot these with my D90 and a Tokina 11-16mm that I borrowed from my awesome friend Jessica.