Days 50-53

Monday 19 Sept - Day 50

Today I have my standard flower of the week photo - yep it's becoming a bit of a theme - but that's ok cause I love flowers, it's spring and they are easy to photograph - I am trying to make them interesting and take different ones though.  This was taken on my lunchtime walk.








Tuesday 20th Sept - Day 51

I thought I would be a bit creative today so when I got home I took these lights off the wall and put them in a bowl.  I bought a vintage mirror on the weekend and I love the reflection in this photo.  The lights are from thailand - I'm a bit of a fan of fairy lights - I intend to buy a bunch for my back yard when I get some cash and have been meaning to shoot these lights for a while.  I tried a setting on the camera I haven't used before also so am pretty proud of myself today.

Wednesday 21st Sept 11 - Day 52 - Dance

Today I took some photo's at my dance studio, some of the Pole girls were doing a practice performance for a show this weekend and I thought it would be a good chance for me to practice taking some motion photos.  As I was taking the photo's I thought they were looking really good, I changed my speed and set the camera for low light, however when I went to edit them they were all a bit crap - they were really dark and too much motion - I managed to fix a few up and I quite like this one.  Today my new handbag came in the mail, it is a special camera bag from America and I am sooooo excited, photo's to come soon.

Thursday 22nd Sept 11 - Day 53 - Footloose

I got a free ticket to see the re-make of Footloose tonight and as a fan of the original I was thinking it was going to be crap - but it was actually quite good - very very funny - not bad dancing and a hot male lead - can't really complain.  I was trying to get a self portrait of me and the sign but it just didn't work so today's photo is the promo for the movie.

I got more goodies in the mail today, my Bokeh Kit and Flash adapter were sitting at my doorstep when I got home - soooo excited - just got to work out how to make the Bokeh photo's work now. (bokeh is a fancy light thingy - basically I put a shape over my len's and then I should get pretty butterfly's or stars when I photograph lights in the dark - fingers crossed).

Adios Amigo's - Donna xoxo

Catch Up - 29th August - 2nd Sept - Days 29-32

Well it's been well over a week since I last blogged and I have hit the one month mark (yay).  Whilst I have been quiet on the computer I have still been taking my daily picture - I have just been holed up on the couch for a week with a really bad chest infection/ flu - so I'm pretty happy that I still managed to find the motivation to take the photo's cause let me tell you, there wasn't much motivation to do anything except lie like a sloth, cough and blow my nose - charming hey! 

Monday 29th August - Day 29 Lights

I tried to be arty with some of the lights that I have in my house but not many of my shots worked out at all - Once I get time to work out how to use my DSLR properly on Manual settings I hope to re-take this photo and see if it works out better - I like the moodiness of this photo but it is a bit grainy and I had to do a bit of editing to make it look ok.

Tuesday 30th August - Day 30

Again I tried to be arty and failed - this time using my point and shoot - I was playing around with the colour settings where you enhance 1 colour and everything else is B&W - but I just couldn't get a shot that was light enough - I guess if I was taking them during the day it would be different.  I chose this one as it was the best of the bunch - and I took heaps of different ones around the house. (Apologies for the lopsidedness - but I just can't get it to sit right!)

Wednesday 31st August - Day 31

Today the only thing I did besides slothing and watching Beverley Hills 90120 (thanks Erin) was go to the doctors - I knew I had to take a photo and whilst I have no green thumb, I have been pretty excited that I actually managed to grow a plant successfully so when I got home I used my phone to take a photo of one of my favourite flower's - this beautiful freesia - and yes I grew it all by myself - well actually last year I pick a whole lot of bulbs off the side of the road and shoved them in my garden hoping for the best and viola - 1 flower grew amongst the weeds - I have done the same this year - planted a whole lot of freesia bulbs so hopefully next spring I will have more than one.

Thursday 1st September - Day 32

Spring - Yay - but still sick!  It was gorgeous outside today and I did manage to leave the house which was good.  For a few weeks now I have been eyeing off a pair of shoes but they had run out of my size - today they rang to say that they had new stock in which was exciting and as I had run completely out of food - I trekked up to the shops and bought my new shoes!