My 365 Photo Project

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2008-03-25T07:01:00.001-07:00

I have another photo blog that I started before this one, and had always planned to leave this one alone once it had run its course.

Now that it's over, I'm back to posting on my regular photo blog, so click here.

Day 365 - Full Circle

2008-02-18T11:32:00.000-08:00

Well, this is it. Friday was day 365 of my one-year blog project, and I really wanted to find something super cool to photograph, but I decided to end it where it all began one year ago ... with Homer Simpson sitting on my desk. A couple of weeks ago, my 8-year-old daughter drew this picture, and I had it pinned up on my desk, right behind the little Homer antenna topper. I remembered Friday that the antenna topper was the first pic I took for this project, so I thought closing with this would make it come full circle.

Although I missed a few days in my attempt to take a photo every single day over the past year, I still enjoyed doing it, as it really made me look at things around me differently. Thanks to all those who read and who commented. A few times I had thought about giving up, but then a comment would make me realize that people are looking at this thing (a few anyhow), so I kept going.

I'm going to keep on posting over at my other blog that I had started before this one, although it may not be an every single day type of thing. Hope all the readers will go there and keep posting comments.

At a later date, I may make a slideshow of the year's worth of photos, and if so, I'll post it here.

Day 364 - Valentine's Chocolates

2008-02-14T06:48:00.002-08:00

Happy Valentine's Day.

Day 363 - Snowy Road

2008-02-14T06:48:00.001-08:00

A little slick driving in Wednesday morning.

Day 362 - Two of Kenzie

2008-02-13T08:44:00.000-08:00

Since we shot Reece photos on Monday, I did some of Kenzie on Tuesday. Here are a couple.

Day 361 - Reece on the Mac

2008-02-12T08:19:00.001-08:00

My son has really gotten into some of the computer games lately. He spent a good deal of time Monday evening playing on Starfall.

Day 360 - Barn Shadow

2008-02-11T13:49:00.000-08:00

From Sunday.

Day 359 - Guest photo

2008-02-11T13:47:00.000-08:00

Saturday's photos actually come to you from a guest photographer. My 3-year-old son, Reece, got a hold of my point-and-shoot Saturday, and wandered around the house taking photos of random objects (Gee, wonder where he gets that from). Here are a couple of his photos just as he shot them.

Day 358 - Apple

2008-02-11T13:46:00.000-08:00

Sorry, I got behind on my posting again. This photo is from Friday.

Day 357 - No photo, again

2008-02-08T12:18:00.000-08:00

No photo of the day for Thursday. I really suck at this.

Day 356 - Orange Grid

2008-02-08T12:16:00.000-08:00

I love toying around with images in Photoshop. It's really amazing what you can do so easily. This photo started out as just a plain silvery grid with no special lighting of any kind. I turned it into a color negative and added an orange spotlight in PS, and it actually made it look decent. This is Wednesday's photo.

Day 355 - Go Diego, Go

2008-02-06T07:08:00.001-08:00

It was guys' day out for Reece and I Tuesday. We went to see Go Diego, Go Live at Ashland's Paramount Arts Center.

Day 354 - No Photo

2008-02-06T07:07:00.000-08:00

Oops. Didn't shoot anything at all on Monday.

Day 353 - Blue Clouds

2008-02-06T07:06:00.000-08:00

From Sunday. Sorry, I've gotten behind in my daily updates again.

Day 352 - Pet Shop Blogging

2008-02-03T13:11:00.001-08:00

For my kids, a trip to the pet store is just as good as the zoo. Here are some shots from Saturday.

Day 351 - Gray Day

2008-02-01T13:17:00.000-08:00

From Friday's drive to work.

Day 350 - Colorful Sunrise

2008-02-01T13:16:00.000-08:00

From Thursday morning. Colors punched up a bit in Photoshop.

Day 349 - I'd Call It Vintage

2008-01-31T07:27:00.001-08:00

Our old Toastmaster. I think we got this thing as a wedding gift, and in June we'll celebrate our 15th anniversary, so I think it's about time for a new toaster. It's not like toasters are pricey, but it's just one of those things where it's always worked, so we've never bothered replacing it.

However, something that can handle four slices and bagel sizes would be nice.

Day 348 - Not Connected

2008-01-31T07:24:00.000-08:00

Seems like I've been getting this message a lot lately, and it's quite annoying. It only lasts for a few minutes when it happens, then it comes back on. I wasn't sure at first if it was my service or my home network or my computer itself, but I discovered that when it happens, it also affects the other computer in our house, and I don't think it's a network problem, because I can still perform other network functions, just no internet, so the problem must lie with my service. This photo is from Tuesday.

Day 347 - Cold Fountain

2008-01-28T10:36:00.000-08:00

Here are a couple of views of the "Trinity" heart sculpture in front of the Heart and Vascular Center at King's Daughters Medical Center in Ashland, Ky. The recent cold weather has left some interesting ice shapes in the bottom.

Day 346 - Watch

2008-01-28T07:41:00.001-08:00

Slow photo day Sunday.

Day 345 - Swim Meet

2008-01-28T07:33:00.000-08:00

Kenzie doing her freestyle at Beaumont YMCA in Lexington on Saturday. It was the 12 and under state YMCA championships, and she finished 5th overall in 25-yard backstroke, 6th overall in 25-yard freestyle and 7th overall in 50-yard freestyle.

Day 344 - Master Chief

2008-01-25T11:28:00.000-08:00

Friday's shot is of James' Halo toys he has around the office.

Day 343 - Reece Likes the Gameboy

2008-01-25T11:27:00.000-08:00

Reece discovered his sister's Gameboy Thursday night.

Day 342 - Morning Moon

2008-01-24T11:18:00.001-08:00

A full moon shot taken at about 7:30 a.m. Wednesday morning. There's actually more daylight than there appears to be in the photo, but to get the moon detail, I had to bring down the exposure, which turned it a nice blue to purple gradient color.

Day 341 - Window Light

2008-01-24T11:15:00.000-08:00

I lit this toy in a dark room by sitting the camera on the floor with a five-second exposure, and using a small cheap flashlight to shine on it. I was actually just playing around, never intending this to be anything, but thought it ended up being sort of a neat effect. The window light is from an incandescent on the front porch.

Day 340 - Is this thing about over yet?

2008-01-22T08:25:00.000-08:00

Running low on ideas Monday, and didn't have much time to go look around for a photo. This is from Lisa's glass collection.

Day 339 - Colors & Shapes

2008-01-21T10:19:00.001-08:00

From Sunday.

Day 338 - Pool Reflection

2008-01-21T10:18:00.000-08:00

From a swim meet at R.C. Durr YMCA in Florence, Ky., on Saturday.

Day 337 - Foosball

2008-01-21T10:17:00.000-08:00

Friday's photo.

Day 336 - Night Sky

2008-01-18T06:30:00.000-08:00

The night sky lit by lights from town Thursday night. Taken around 9:30 p.m. as an 8-second exposure, f2.8, ISO 200.

Day 335 - Reece at Play

2008-01-18T06:29:00.001-08:00

Photo from Wednesday of Reece playing in the floor with his train tracks.

Day 334 - Blizzard of '08?

2008-01-15T07:47:00.000-08:00

There was no school today in Carter County, Ky., because of the horrible amounts of snow we got, as you can see from this first photo of my street.

Once I got out on the main roads, here's how they looked, so you can clearly see why school was canceled. I mean look at that wintry mess.

...and they wonder why we're in school until mid-June every year. I know this will make me sound like a grouchy old man, but when we were younger, just the threat of snow wasn't enough to cancel school. I remember getting out and helping put chains on the school bus tires to try and make it up hills.

Now, if one flake lands on top of another, school is canceled and our kids lose their spring breaks and a chunk of their summers.

Day 333 - Speedy Ducks

2008-01-15T07:45:00.000-08:00

We went to Gattiland Monday evening, and in between chasing Reece from game to game, I grabbed this picture of a game that's a variation of the duck pond. You have to punch the ducks as they go by on a conveyor belt. This is a slightly longer exposure, so the ducks look like they're moving much faster than they really are.

Day 332 - Two of Reece

2008-01-14T10:54:00.000-08:00

I guess he got thirsty during his bath Sunday evening.

Day 331 - Meet Roxy

2008-01-12T13:17:00.001-08:00

My sister got a new dog, Roxy, and she brought her over to meet Kenzie today.

Day 330 - Flowers in January

2008-01-11T09:50:00.000-08:00

Don't see too many of these out this time of year.

Day 329 - Thursday's Mail

2008-01-11T05:58:00.000-08:00

I got one of those "special offers" about extending my car warranty in the mail Thursday, but I just don't know if I can get it in under that deadline. I guess some people still haven't gotten around to fixing that Y2K bug.

Day 328 - Yet Another Sunset

2008-01-10T06:31:00.001-08:00

Seems like we have some spectacular sunsets in January around here. Lots of color.

Day 327 - Welder

2008-01-08T10:47:00.001-08:00

The escalator removal in our building continued today.

Day 326 - Trees and Clouds

2008-01-08T09:02:00.000-08:00

This was shot with an orange filter on the camera to boost the contrast between the sky and clouds, then converted to black and white in Adobe Lightroom. This is Monday's photo.

Day 325 - Swim Meet, Day 2

2008-01-08T09:01:00.001-08:00

Kenzie doing backstroke with some motivation by a friend. She finished the meet with several ribbons, including two fourth-place overall.

Day 324 - Lane Lines

2008-01-06T12:24:00.000-08:00

From Saturday at Marshall University's swimming pool. We had a meet there this weekend, where Kenzie continued to improve her best times in some of her events.

Day 323 - Sunset

2008-01-06T12:23:00.001-08:00

From the parking lot where I work on Friday evening. The building is in the lower right-hand corner.

Day 322 - Snowflakes

2008-01-03T08:15:00.000-08:00

Snow on the roof of my car this morning.

Day 321 - The Escalator Take-Down

2008-01-02T12:56:00.000-08:00

The building I work in has an escalator to the second floor that hasn't worked in years, so they're in the process of taking it down, which is kind of interesting to look at. I thought about posting some of these as "mystery photos," but there's probably no way anyone other than an escalator repair person would know what they were part of.

Day 320 - The Mouse Collector

2008-01-02T12:37:00.000-08:00

A couple of years ago, my daughter's future career choice was that she was going to be a "mouse collector." She's well on her way. Here's three of the latest additions. This is Tuesday's photo.

Day 319 - Sunrise

2008-01-02T12:34:00.001-08:00

Last day of the year. This would have been a cooler photo for Jan. 1, but it's from Monday.

Day 318 - Christmas ornament

2007-12-31T08:08:00.001-08:00

One of the ornaments at our church.

Day 317 - Wazowski

2007-12-31T08:07:00.001-08:00

Saturday's photo.

Day 316 - Bowling Party

2007-12-31T08:06:00.000-08:00

Kenzie's swim team had a bowling party Friday evening.

Day 315 - Hula Girl

2007-12-31T08:04:00.000-08:00

This was my 8-year-old daughter's Christmas gift to my wife that she bought at one of those school Christmas Shop sales. As for me, I got a World's Best Dad baseball.

Day 314 - Bicycle Wheel

2007-12-31T08:01:00.000-08:00

From Wednesday.

Day 313 - Christmas Day

2007-12-30T13:55:00.000-08:00

Reece playing with his train set and Kenzie with her new baby doll that Santa brought them.

Day 312 - Christmas Eve Sunset

2007-12-30T13:49:00.000-08:00

Really nice sunset on Christmas Eve.

Day 311 - Early Christmas Gifts

2007-12-29T18:47:00.000-08:00

Still catching up, and this is from Sunday, when we opened Christmas gifts a day early at my parents' house. Kenzie is a huge Simpsons fan, and she got a complete figure set.

Day 310 - Reece Close-Up

2007-12-28T19:29:00.000-08:00

I'm way behind on my blogging, with the holidays and all. I have photos from every day over the past week to post, and I'll work on getting caught up. To start, here's last Saturday's photo.

Day 309 - It's Finally Here

2007-12-21T13:44:00.004-08:00

We got the upgrade to Photoshop CS3 today. Just installed it, and I can't wait to play with it.

Day 308 - No Photo

2007-12-21T13:44:00.001-08:00

On Thursday, I just flat out forgot to take a photo. I really suck at this "Photo-A-Day" thing.

Day 307 - No Photo

2007-12-21T13:43:00.001-08:00

I actually snapped a single quick sunset photo as I was leaving work Wednesday, but I learned a lesson. My camera was set to RAW, and I flipped the power off as soon as I snapped the photo, and all that was recorded was a black square. I didn't even double-check it because I was in such a hurry.

Day 306 - Ty & Whitley

2007-12-21T13:42:00.001-08:00

Christmas photo of a friends kids from Tuesday.

Day 305 - "Macro"phone

2007-12-18T12:19:00.000-08:00

A close-up of the end of a microphone we got here at the office. Now all we need are two turntables and we're set.

Day 304 - Just a Little Snow

2007-12-17T13:00:00.001-08:00

It really didn't snow enough Sunday to even cover the ground, but some did stick to this weed in our backyard.

Day 303 - Another Swim Meet

2007-12-17T12:58:00.000-08:00

We were in Maysville Saturday morning for another swim meet. The top photo is my daughter on the starting block showing off her skull tattoo the coach draws on them every meet.

Day 302 - Playing at a Christmas Party

2007-12-17T12:56:00.000-08:00

From Friday evening. I love how the shallow depth of field blows up the Christmas lights in the background.

Day 301 - Christmas Play No. 2

2007-12-17T12:55:00.000-08:00

I called Monday's post Christmas Play No. 1 because it was the first of two I had this week. This one from Thursday was for my daughter (center with glasses) that played a 1950s elf in her school play.

Day 300 - Christmas Photo Shoot

2007-12-13T10:39:00.000-08:00

I was looking for something out of the ordinary for Day No. 300, and it happen to be the day I attempted (and I stress the word attempted) to get Christmas photos of my kids. My son is 3 and very active, so he's not the easiest guy to get a decent photo of.

Day 299 - Driving

2007-12-12T07:33:00.001-08:00

I shot this on the way in to work Tuesday morning. Just playing around with the camera in the car.

Day 298 - Christmas Play No. 1

2007-12-11T07:18:00.000-08:00

This was Reece's Christmas play by his daycare class (he's the one in the foreground who looks like he's throwing something off the stage). He wasn't as much of a performer as the other kids because he was more interested in the laptop that was running the screen behind them. Don't know where he gets that from.

Day 297 - Christmas Bear

2007-12-11T06:25:00.000-08:00

From Sunday

Day 296 - Placeholder

2007-12-11T06:24:00.000-08:00

I have a couple of photos from Saturday in Louisville that I took with a friend's camera, but I'm waiting to get them sent to me before I can post them, so this is a placeholder for now.

Day 295 - In Louisville with No Camera

2007-12-10T10:01:00.000-08:00

So we get to the hotel in Louisville for our daughter's swim meet Friday evening. I pull out my camera to grab a shot from our hotel window when my little Fuji informs me that there's no memory card plugged in. My mind then goes right to my desk at work back in Ashland, where there sits the reader, card still inserted. So, I tried to make due with a cell phone photo, and wow are they bad.

Day 294 - New Toy

2007-12-07T09:52:00.000-08:00

Too bad it's not mine, but it's one for the office. Still, it's fun to play with.

Day 293 - First Snow

2007-12-05T07:05:00.002-08:00

A nice surprise this morning. Especially for our daughter who got the day off school. She tried to tell me when I made her go to bed last night that it was going to snow, and this morning she said she knew it would because she prayed for it to snow last night.

Day 292 - Traffic Light

2007-12-05T07:05:00.001-08:00

From Tuesday.

Day 291 - My wife's Science Project

2007-12-05T07:03:00.000-08:00

Well...actually it's our daughter's science project, but we like to joke about it. My wife has a lot at stake, she took third place last year.

Day 290 - Santa Hat

2007-12-03T06:42:00.000-08:00

I had one brief chance Sunday to get a decent shot of Reece wearing a Santa hat before he refused to wear it again, and I blew it by not having the right settings on my flash (I didn't realize I had it on 1/16th power). I tried to salvage the photo best I could, but it's really full of noise. It's still kinda cute, though.

Day 289 - Decorations

2007-12-03T06:41:00.000-08:00

Got a few more Christmas decorations put up on Saturday.

Day 288 - The Drive Home

2007-12-03T06:40:00.000-08:00

Hate to post back-to-back sky photos, but it looked really neat again on the drive home Friday evening.

Day 287 - Jet Streak

2007-11-30T08:45:00.002-08:00

You'll notice I've done more than a week's worth of posts today. I kinda let myself get way behind in my posting again, partly from being busy and partly from my laptop being out for repairs for a few days see this post. Anyhow, this photo from yesterday catches me up again, and I'll try to keep up better.

Day 286 - Toboggan weather

2007-11-30T08:45:00.001-08:00

From Wednesday morning, when it was rather chilly out.

Day 285 - Building detail

2007-11-30T08:44:00.000-08:00

From Tuesday evening.

Day 284 - F2

2007-11-30T08:42:00.000-08:00

This is from Monday. It's a portion of my laptop keyboard, which is significant because I just last week got my laptop back from Apple after they did some repairs. Mine had a factory defect involving one of the RAM slots that they fixed for free despite me having the computer for more than three years. Also, to my surprise, they even replaced the keyboard after my son had completely torn off my F2 key.

I'd had the PowerBook for so long, I didn't expect them to do anything about my problems, but they went above and beyond, and that's rare these days.

Day 283 - Christmas Portrait

2007-11-30T08:41:00.000-08:00

My cousin's photo taken Sunday.

Day 282 - Another Wedding

2007-11-30T08:40:00.001-08:00

From another wedding I shot on Saturday.

Day 281 - No pic, again

2007-11-30T08:39:00.000-08:00

Oops. Another day that I completely forgot.

Day 280 - Miniature

2007-11-30T08:38:00.000-08:00

From Thursday, Nov. 22. You'd think I could've come up with a Thanksgiving themed photo.

Day 279 - Reece's New Haircut

2007-11-30T08:37:00.000-08:00

From Wednesday, Nov. 21.

Day 278 - Statue

2007-11-30T08:36:00.000-08:00

From Tues., Nov. 20 ... I'm pretty far behind on my blogging.

Day 277 - No Photo

2007-11-30T08:35:00.000-08:00

A lot of times, I simply forget to stop and take a photo for this thing. Nov. 19 was one of those days.

Day 276 - Playing at the Park

2007-11-19T10:54:00.000-08:00

The kids had a good time playing in Central Park in Ashland yesterday.

Day 275 - Cow Skull

2007-11-19T10:53:00.000-08:00

Part of the decor at a restaurant we were at on Saturday. I like the way the shadow falls on the otherwise empty wall.

Day 274 - Park Portraits

2007-11-19T10:52:00.000-08:00

A portrait I did for someone in Ashland's Central Park on Friday. The leaves there are really nice right now.

Day 273 - MRI Unit

2007-11-19T10:49:00.002-08:00

I had to take photos Thursday of a mobile MRI unit, so I tried to do something a little different with the lighting. I used two Nikon SB-24s fired with remotes. The first one is just inside of the door where the MRI unit is (I couldn't get too close because the magnet was on) bounced off the ceiling, and the other is behind the computer monitor with a blue gel to give some color to the scene. The flashes were on the lowest power setting possible to try and get the rest of the scene lit with the ambient lighting. It didn't turn out too bad.

Day 272 - Star Detail

2007-11-19T10:49:00.001-08:00

Wednesday was a slow day for photos.

Day 271 - Cool Bug

2007-11-14T11:36:00.000-08:00

This bug was on my car window as I left work last night. It was pretty dark out, so the photos a bit blurry.

Day 270 - Reindeer sighting

2007-11-12T13:24:00.000-08:00

It's awful early for Christmas stuff, but here it is.

Day 269 - Classic Leaf

2007-11-12T13:23:00.000-08:00

From Sunday. We were back at the University of Charleston for another swim meet.

Day 268 - Wedding Cake

2007-11-12T13:21:00.001-08:00

I shot a wedding on Saturday, and tried to do something a little different with the cake photos. I think these turned out nice. Both have a Nikon SB-24 with a homemade foam paper snoot as the main light from the upper left, and the first shot has a second SB-24 with a red gel on the background.

Day 267 - Abstract Photography

2007-11-09T11:10:00.000-08:00

Sometimes it's fun to try something different. I took this shot today by setting the camera shutter to be open for about .3 seconds, then spun around in my office chair and clicked. This is the result, and for the life of me, I can't figure out what all the little blue squares that look like spots of light come from.