30 Days: Day 29 – Flowers

Last Friday, the lady of the house changed jobs at her company.  One of her co-workers was kind enough to give her a bouquet of flowers that have since been sitting on our dining room table.  While some of the flowers are still doing pretty well for being a week old, the roses in the bouquet are already pretty much well on their way to being completely dried out.

For day 29, I grabbed a few photos of the bouquet, focusing primarily on the change that the roses are experiencing.

30 Days: Day 28 – Panning

I don’t know that I’d consider this shot panning, but there was something haunting and mysterious about it that I really love and just had to share for day 28, so here it is.

30 Days: Day 27 – SOOC and Favorite Edit

I had a couple of ideas that I wanted to try out for day 27, but since I was still trying to deal with issues from the weekend, as well as work problems, I didn’t have much time to focus on this challenge.  For the past several weeks, I’ve been trying to focus my photography (not related to this project) on an idea of minimal expression.  I wanted to build on that idea with day 27 and shoot something that I pass in my neighborhood at least twice a day, but is only visible during the day.  I leave for work in the mornings before sunrise, and yesterday wasn’t home until sunset, so I wasn’t able to get the photo that I had hoped.  At the time that I wanted to be out shooting my idea, I was stuck at a gas station, so that’s what I ended up shooting for day 27′s straight out of the camera and favorite edit.

I did this shot from a couple of different angles, but each time the background was distracting to me, so in my edit, I mainly focused on trying to tone that down, but other than that, I didn’t spend too much time on this one.

30 Days: Day 26 – High angle shot

I may or may not have completely forgotten about this challenge on day 26.  With the exception of Sunday’s trip to the mountains, it had been a pretty long and frustrating weekend, and Monday (day 26) wasn’t turning out to be much better.  I could have taken a photo of the street happenings below my fifth floor window at work, but I didn’t even think to bring my camera with me.  By the time I finally got around to remembering to do this, I just wanted to be done with it and took a photo of the first thing available to me.

This sad little photo is the end result.  I tried to do a little something with it in post processing to save it, but really, this photo offered nothing at all worth saving, but it had to be done to keep me on track.

30 Days: Day 25 – Low angle shot

On day 25, I took the family on a short road trip up to the north Georgia mountains to do some apple-picking and watch some pig racing.  This is the second year that we’ve gone, but this time we went much earlier in the season.  I was hoping to catch some of the beautiful fall colors that we’re already seeing around our home, but to my surprise, things were pretty much still a solid green.

Nonetheless, we still had a great time.  The trip would have been a great opportunity to do day 26′s high angle shot, since we were up in the mountains, but that photo was to be botched the following day.  The apple orchard that we went to is said to be Georgia’s largest and most popular.  The location features a number of different attractions, in addition to the apple orchard itself.  After the pig racing, my favorites are the moonshine museum and the nature trail.  Both of those exhibits feature some pretty disturbing  (to small children, yet hilarious to me) mannequins.  Had it been a different day in the challenge, I would have certainly used one of the photos from those exhibits, but for day 25′s low angle shot, I decided on this sign for pony rides attached to the end of a children only zip line.  The foliage behind the sign is a dwarf apple tree, Rome apples to be exact.  Cross processing was added in Photoshop.