Day 181

While going to check out whether my landlord was moved out of the house I am moving into tomorrow we ran across these kids selling lemonade and Oreo cookies. We stopped to get some lemonade and asked to photograph them. They said they were dressed as Barbies, but the 2 on the outside were wearing Mario and Luigi hats, the one in the middle a princess hat. As we were leaving I asked if they were all sisters. The dad said,... No..... the one in the middle is the brother ! Oh my ! I told them they were very silly and adorable. Great marketing strategy :-)

Day 180

Whoo hoo I found this while emptying out a drawer, I must have money to burn.... not.... Almost forgot to take my photo again. Two more days till the big move across town.

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The one good thing about moving is finding all the old stuff you kept. A nice subject for today's photo.

Day 177

I drove down to Long Island to see my Great Niece perform in her yearly dance recital. Marisa is a wonderful little dancer and I love going to see her every year. Even though it took me 3 hours to drive there :-(. This photo was taken after the performance , there's no photography allowed during the recital. Every other year I was able to sneak my camera in . This year they were very strict about enforcing that rule.

Day 176

One more late post due to no internet. This is a statue I bought in Kenya. It was made by a local artist, his interpretation of a Masai Ceremonial Dance.

Day 175

I'm a few days late uploading due to a straight line tornado touching down in Bridgeport, CT. This effected the internet, phone and cable tv for my part of Fairfield. This is Dude after a late afternoon at the dog park :-)

Day 174

Another full day of packing and air conditioner only working in parts of the house. Got an estimate of $1500.00 just to fix one of the units, lovely...... 7 days left and I have this huge expense..... ugh ! Anyway I put this silk plant in my lightbox and added some texture by kimklassen to spice it up a bit.

Day 173

Almost midnight again ! Don't know what I am going to photograph when I'm all packed up for my move.

Day 172

Today is the first day of summer. I wanted to shoot something to represent that. I found a wooden fan and added a glass of ice water.

Day 171

After a full day of shopping, and actually buying living room and dining room sets I feel a lot less stressed about this move.
When we got home my daughter Kathryn baked some chocolate chip cookies ! I photographed this in my home made lightbox and added a KimKlassen texture.
Happy Father's Day to all you Dad's out there.

Day 170

Busy day, shopping for sofas and tv and found nothing I wanted. So I picked up Dude and brought him to the dog park. As usual he was a muddy mess by the time we left. I gave him a quick bath. While cleaning myself after he shook the water all over me I noticed the shadows on the shower wall. I added 3 additional textures to it.

Day 169

Don't ask what I was thinking.... this is actually 2 Target light up buttons and some Christmas ribbon I found in a box I was sorting. It's almost midnight and this is all I got.

This is my mantra for packing ! I took a photo of a sign, then zoomed in on some shower curtains and added a border.

Let the Packing begin !!!!!! This little guy will be my best friend for the next two weeks.

Day 166

Here I have combined an in focus photo with one that I zoomed. I just used the flower part and masked out the leaves.

Day 165

On my way out to another awards dinner tonight with the Norwalk Camera Club a bunch of Iris's caught my eye near my driveway. Knowing I wouldn't have time to take photos tonight I shot off a few frames and am happy with this one in square format.
What a crazy year I was awarded "Photographer of the Year" in this club too ! Maybe I should quit while I am ahead.

Day 164

Today is my oldest daughter Kristi's birthday.
We went to our new favorite restaurant in Westport, Rizzuto's to celebrate.

Day 163

Today is Dude's 1st Birthday !!! My daughter, Kristi gave me this treat to give him at midnight. The first of the diptych is of him waiting for the treat I was holding. The second is of him sitting in the foyer enjoying it, and trying to get away from me!

Day 162

Had to run to the mall tonight, and once again, no photo today, ugh!!!!! i shot the first in the series inside the mall. The second shot was just a pattern I saw on a wall. The third was a few rows of shopping carts and the fourth some elements outside the mall. It wasn't until I got home that I realized everything that caught my eye was a combination of reds and yellow or golds. None of them made that much of an impression on me until I realized I should make a tetraptych !

Day 161

I stopped by the house that I am going to be moving into on July 1st. While I was inside meeting with my new landlord a storm passed over. As I was leaving I saw this great sky and grabbed a few shots. BTW my landlord is really chill, just my style, we're going to get along just fine.

Tonight was the Awards Dinner for the Stamford Camera Club. I didn't bring my flash so had to use what light was available.

I had the honor of receiving the "Photographer of the Year Award" !!!!!!!!

The first shot of this diptych is of Mike Harris showing one of his many awards received tonight, this one being "best black and white photo of the year". The second shot is of the pot my meatballs were in with friends in the background laughing at me because I was desperately trying to get a shot for tonight. :-)
Çheck out our website you can click around to see all the photos of the year and runner ups for 2009/2010
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Day 159

Another late night getting my photo done.
At dinner with my friend Sandy I noticed the lights from the blinds on the empty wall.
I got up and took a few shots thinking I would have to figure out a way to use them later. On my way home I stopped in Westport and found this wonderful store with several window displays of wild horses. I took a few shots and was hoping to mix the two photos together when I got home. This is what I came up with.

Day 158

My meeting was over at 11pm and I realized I hadn't done my photo yet. On my drive home I passed a few stores and decided to try some zooming and panning. I added 2 photos together here, one of a zoom and one of a pan to add another dimension. I like the combination of colors.

Day 157

Driving to Eugene , OR this morning in rain, fog and mist. I pulled over a few times to get my shot for today.
Posting a day late, I didn't get home until after midnight.

Day 156

Most of the participants from the Oregon workshop went home today. I stayed an extra day and went down to the tide pools.

Day 155

What better way to end an AWESOME workshop than with a beautiful sunset.

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Day 152

Another day of drizzling rain. We went to the Charleston Boat Yard and got lots of fun shots.

Day 151

Still a drizzling overcast day and night. We went down onto the beach for this shot. Lots of blue, not exactly sure why. I am having problems posting to my blog. I think I have missed a few days, will have to fix it all when I get back from my workshop in Oregon. Check out my Flickr stream for all 365 photos here http://www.flickr.com/photos/bettywisse/