Tag: 365 Photos

This is WebGuy’s:

In Santa Barbara on an anniversary trip with Annie. I shot these words in the sand just before the water washed them away. Taken with the iPhone at dusk.

My photo is of the menu board at La Suoer-Rica, the legendary Santa Barbara Eatery. This place is truly a hole-in-the-wall, but was mentioned on the tv show Alias, and is well known by So-Cal celebrities. Not your avaerage taqueria with burrito fare, but creative yummy healthy food. I thought their menu was filled with words, hence, my photo for today.
Taken with my camera phone

Day 7’s topic is Family

Here is my photo:

I thought all day about what I was going to for a “family” picture. Then, when I was thinking about starting dinner, this idea came into my mind. We have “Dave” who grows “Old Fashioned Tomatoes”. At least that’s what his sign says. We live for Dave’s sign at the end of each summer, when we can drive 5 minutes from home and get today’s pick of the vine. These are all from Dave’s.

The varieties are: Yellow Heirloom, the striped ones are also Heirloom (my favorite), an orange tomato, a beefsteak, yellow grape tomatoes and the small red ones are called Juliettes — sweet and delicious, all!

A note from Annie: ok, so what do all of these random 365 tomatoes have to do with quilting? Not much, so far — except that  it is making me look at fabric differently, I find that I’m being more thoughtful about new quilt designs, and I’m more aware of how I look at things. I just read a fantastic book by Michelle Richmond, “The Year of Fog” where the main character is a photographer and she talks about how she looks at things through her lens and how our memories sometimes plays tricks on us. (If the theme of kidnapping bothers you, don’t read the book)

taken with Olympus sp-500uz, f 3.2, 2 second exposure, natural light

Here is Guy’s photo:

It was a busy day. I came home from work and couldn’t find anything more creative than to pull this picture off the wall and shoot us behind it. Taken with Olympus E-500 50mm f4 1.8 seconds – no flash.

© 2011  Annie and Guy Smith    All Rights Reserved

Today’s theme is Sugar

Here is mine:

Taken at my local Walmart. I think it speaks for itself. Even though I am eating differently, Reese’s Peanut Butter cups is the candy I miss the most — and I could eat myself into a coma with those liitle sweets. I wonder how much sugar is really in all of those bags… A ton?
Taken with my phone’s camera

Here is WebGuy’s:

I was trying to include motion along with the sense of the sugar coating the strawberry. The motion really is there, sugar was raining down over the strawberry as I shot the picture. It seems that the grains were too small and I exposed the image for a much too short a time to get the motion of the sugar pouring over the strawberry. Still the sweetness and moistness comes out in the image.
Taken with Olympus E-500 with a 13 second exposure and using an LED flashlight as the source light at f8.

Day 5 Theme is Vegetable (animal and mineral are in the jar too ; )

Here is WebGuy’s photo:

I was getting some great window light in my bedroom and thought the slicing of the tomato would jive with the slices of light in the background. What do you think? I really like the way the lens caught the translucence of the tomato through the skin on the left-hand edge of the front part of the tomato. Taken with Olympus E-500 40mm f5.6 at 1/30″.

Here is Annie’s Photo:

The only vegetables we keep in the cupboard. I was hoping for corn, peas and green beans — but we don’t eat them any longer because they are considered to be starch rather than a healthy vegetable like broccoli, cauliflower or cabbage. We’re on a health kick at our house. I’ll be talking more about that later.

taken with Olympus DLSR 500, mushroom label slightly over-exposed.

©2011 Annie and Guy Smith   All Rights Reserved

Day 4 theme is “A”

Here is Guy’s photo:

A is for AMAZING — and that is exactly what my daughter Kirsten is. This photo tells the whole story about her. She is beautiful, confident, and secure in who she is. Her eyes can look into your soul and see the good in you. Her mouth speaks kind words and is always ready to laugh with you. I used a small amount of vignetting in the photo and softened the image to help describe the softness of her touch. I particularly love the way the afternoon shadows cast by the tree we are under play on her skin. I hope you like it.

Here is Annie’s photo:

A is for Apple… Apple…

I just couldn’t resist.

taken with Olympus sp-500uz in the auto Portrait setting

©2011  Annie and Guy Smith   All Rights Reserved

Day Two Topic: 10 minutes away from home

This is WebGuy’s:

taken with Guy’s iPhone

I take the bus to work every day. I get to walk about a half mile to my office building. Each day, a new sunrise greets me. Today it was no different than any other day. This time, however, I was looking to capture the beauty found in the sunrise and how the sun welcomed me this morning. I think I was able to do that in this picture.

Here is Annie’s:

Today, I walked ten minutes west, away from home, where I attend church. My friend was teaching friends how to can pears. I’ve never done any canning before and it was fun to see how to do it and help peel pears for my friends. I thought the finished jars were beautiful and took the opportunity to snap a shot. I only had my cell phone with me, so this was taken with that cheap little camera inside. I think the picture turned out pretty good for that silly camera.

 

©2011 Annie and Guy Smith   All Rights Reserved

I’m adding a new feature to my blog.

WebGuy and I just found a renewed interest in photography — something we can do together. For instance, I went back to the most recent place, a county fair, where I judged Quilts. We both took cameras — I have a DSLR and WebGuy uses a 35mm film SLR and an iPhone. We can take the same pictures and have them turn out differently. We’re going to use a point-and-shoot camera, our cell phone cameras, an iPad camera and a Holga during the year.

I’ll share photos that we’ve taken recently, and ones we took a looooong time ago in this portion of the blog.

What I want to do today is share with you what we started yesterday — 365 Photos. We each picked topics to shoot and each day, the challenge is to take a photo of the topic of the day. Here are today’s photos.

Our topic is: “An eye that is totally clear, using depth of field”.

Here is WebGuy’s:

taken with Guy’s iPhone

Here is Mine:

taken with Guy’s iPhone

and here’s a bonus shot that we both set up. (It took both us of to corral Piper. She got a cookie for being a good model)

I think it’s amazing that her eyes are the same color as her coat.

taken with Olympus sp-500uz in Portrait mode

Why the eye?

Eye’s are incredibly beautiful and unique. Did you know that no two eyes are the same, just like snowflakes? It’s true. The patterns in our eyes are all unique. Some look like layers of tissue, others like rock formations. I have a dot in mine.

©2011  Annie and Guy Smith   All Rights Reserved