{"id":2117,"date":"2009-05-15T07:30:08","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T12:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=2117"},"modified":"2009-05-15T07:30:08","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T12:30:08","slug":"project-365-reflections-and-raindrops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/05\/15\/project-365-reflections-and-raindrops\/","title":{"rendered":"Project 365: Reflections and raindrops"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ooo, I’m very excited! Lots of new stuff to share with you today, not least of which is the new blog design. (Click through if you’re reading in a feed reader and tell me what you think!)<\/p>\n

Remember how excited I was when one of my pictures got the nod from Flickr’s capricious “Explore” function? Well, apparently Flickr (and a few friends) also liked my Primary Entrance picture from last week, because it made it into Explore as well! I’m pleased, because it’s one of my favourite shots so far.<\/p>\n

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And then later in the week, I got a Flickr-mail from Scmaps<\/a> telling me that two of my photos had been “shortlisted” to be included in their downloadable map\/travel guide of Ottawa. No remuneration, but I get the photo credit, and since it’s a couple of photos I like but don’t feel particularly proprietary over, I was happy to oblidge. I’ll let you know if they make the final cut. The photos were of the Peace Tower <\/a>and of the Heart and Crown<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yay for meaningless and random praise!<\/p>\n

This week, I seem to be on a theme of raindrops and reflections. This is by far my favourite picture this week, taken yesterday from the stairwell of the building where I work, in between the 6th and 7th floor and looking down on Sussex Street.<\/p>\n

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It was taken through a dirty window, though, and even with my fancy new polarizing filter it was still a little murky so I added some texture in photoshop and that’s where the raindrop effect came in. Here, for comparison, is the original photograph straight out of the camera:<\/p>\n

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Rain was definitely a theme this week!<\/p>\n

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(I’m fond of the title of this one: “Another day, another dam(p) flower…”)<\/p>\n

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This was my Mother’s Day photo. Isn’t she lovely? This picture hardly does her justice, but you can see the beauty of her smile and her warmth quite clearly!<\/p>\n

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I had a bit of a reflections theme going on this week, too. I love reflections! In this one, I was originally just trying to capture the flowers in the bistro window and the reflections were a bit of a nuissance — there was a garbage truck idling behind me! Then I moved around the corner and realized I could capture this beautiful old heritage building in the reflection and actually incorporate it into the photo. Anybody from work recognize that building? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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And this one! I was driving to work down alongside the Rideau Canal when this stunning image caught my eye. If you know Colonel By, you know there’s nowhere to stop, so I doubled back through Carleton and hiked up a bit of a hill so I could come back and take this photo of the Fair Jeanne <\/a>in the morning stillness. Turns out she’s a tall ship and has sailed more than 150,000 nautical miles! They use her as a training ship now. It’s not every day you see a tall ship moored at the lock stations on the Canal!<\/p>\n

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And, last but not least, this one I took for the monthly scavenger hunt theme of “message in a bottle.” We had these pretty yellow carnations, and I thought the boys would like the effect that the blue water would have on this one. Part centerpiece, part botany lesson — in a Frank’s Red Hot bottle!<\/p>\n

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All in all, a good week in pictures!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ooo, I’m very excited! Lots of new stuff to share with you today, not least of which is the new blog design. (Click through if you’re reading in a feed reader and tell me what you think!) Remember how excited I was when one of my pictures got the nod from Flickr’s capricious “Explore” function? … Continue reading “Project 365: Reflections and raindrops”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2119,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions\/2119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}