Project 365: Week 2

One of my main goals for the 365 project this time around is to take it a little bit less seriously. To that end, I’ve allowed myself a bit of flexibility: if I take four great pictures on Monday and Tuesday ends up being a trainwreck of a day, rather than stress myself out trying to take a picture on Tuesday, I’ll just steal one from Monday. This will be the exception rather than the rule, but it will also ensure that the 365 project is something I enjoy rather than dread. So far, a whole 20 days in, this has already come in handy. And yet, I feel this compelling need to confess it to you, less you are not able to sleep at night after examining the meta-data in my imagery (I swear I’m not looking at you, Angela) and realizing that the picture posted for Wednesday was actually captured on (gasp!) Sunday.

Phew, glad I got *that* off my chest!

And now, some pictures!

We were delighted to discover that the local Chinese food joint prepares what turned out to be the best Chinese food I’ve ever had. In fact, we’ve had to limit ourselves to only having it once a month, cuz left to my own devices we’d have it at least once a week. Totally drool-worthy! It was the neon and the pink interior that engaged me on this picture, and something in it was evocative of a poster called Boulevard of Broken Dreams that I used to have in my room when I was a teenager. Taken with my iPhone.

Lucas and I were playing kick-the-puck in the driveway when the snow removal crew showed up, to the delight of the curious toddler and his sidekick. It was the light in this one that caught my eye. Also taken with my iPhone.

Manotick’s Haunted Mill (you saw this one earlier in the week.)

A boy and his dog.

The treehouse in the back yard on a cold January day. I was trying to capture something more moody, but I couldn’t quite get it right.

The first TtV shot of the new iteration of the 365! This star is part of a dangly ornament that hangs in the kitchen patio door. You would have laughed if you saw me trying to capture this, standing on my tip-toes on a step stool in my kitchen, trying to angle the camera so that I had flat white snow as a background and not the play structure. The diagonal angle is a total fluke that I started out trying to achieve, gave up, and accidentally achieved anyway.

I’ve been admiring this falling-down old silo at the corner of Bankfield and Rideau Valley Drive for ages, and knew it was just a matter of time before it made its way into my photographic repertoire. I took this shot with both my Nikon and my iPhone, and ended up liking the version in my iPhone much better. The frame and processing are from an app called Camera+.

Another iPhone capture: pine cones against snow. This one uses processing from the Instagram app.

And finally, your weekly serving of cuteness. Someone got a haircut!

So I’m thinking this 365 project will be a lot more playful, with plenty of hokey processing from various iPhone apps and retro TtV captures. I think a few of these, the old barn in particular, come dangerously close to being overdone — but I like them anyway.