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.

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

Day 137

Another bottle and shadow. I tried playing around with shadows and was able to create 2 of them with the two lights I was using. The bottle is actually a royal blue and the background was white. I played around in photoshop to get the look I wanted. Thanks to "telzey" for the texture.

Day 118

I started out wanting to do a close up of a dandelion but wasn't so impressed with it. I went out to the yard and picked the different phases of the growth or death of the daffodil and arraigned them for this photograph. It was still a little plain so I did what I always do and added some texture to it to finish it off.

Day 102

With all the beautiful flowers blooming, I chose Dandelions, I'm not sure why.

Day 71

I got this perfect yellow rose today and couldn't do anything other than photograph it as cleanly as possible. If it lasts I will try something with textures or macro tomorrow.

Day 67

Simple primary color pinwheels, reminds me Spring is just around the corner.

Day 47

I know this has been done before, but not by me. It was a lot harder than it looks. It took quite awhile to get the lighting, the bubbles and the focus just right. I followed Bryan Peterson's book "Understanding Close-up Photography" to get this shot. I had to play around in photoshop quite a bit to get the colors brighter. Hint... if you start to lose the bubbles add a little salt to the club soda.

Day 41

I started out by placing an egg in this blue fabric, then remembered I bought a cool looking pear yesterday. The pear reminded me of a woman's body. After many attempts to light this with the umbrella I realized what I really wanted was a lot of shadows so the shape of the pear and the wrinkles in the fabric would show up better. I put a napkin over the flash and pointed it low and camera left to accentuate the curves. I added a light texture to bring the pear and fabric together and here's the result.