{"id":3225,"date":"2009-11-13T05:36:44","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T10:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=3225"},"modified":"2009-11-13T06:18:41","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T11:18:41","slug":"project-365-lovely-light-and-yes-more-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/11\/13\/project-365-lovely-light-and-yes-more-leaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Project 365: I am running out of titles for these posts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">I<\/span> think I&#8217;ve managed to clamber over the brick wall of uninspiration that&#8217;s been sitting on my Muse for the last week or so.  After about 10 days of feeling completely uninspired and worse, feeling like a talentless hack who happened to luck into a few good shots, I am feeling rejuvenated and excited about taking pictures again.  I can&#8217;t figure out if my mood improved because my photos did, or vice versa.  Regardless, it&#8217;s good to be enjoying the 365 project again.  I&#8217;ve still got more than two months to get through!<\/p>\n<p>I just can&#8217;t seem to stay away from leaf pictures.  I can&#8217;t say in 40 years I&#8217;ve ever found them quite so compelling before, especially the ones lying in discarded heaps and blown up against fences.  Like these ones!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/4081054911\/\" title=\"290:365 More wet leaves by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2628\/4081054911_b4e5603fd0.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"290:365 More wet leaves\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was from the same day, the tail end of my rather bleak mood last week.  I wanted something stark and November-y.  I think this qualifies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/4081052271\/\" title=\"290b:365 Tree trunk by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2470\/4081052271_1a4c5e5001.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"306\" alt=\"290b:365 Tree trunk\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This picture was a failed experiment.  I&#8217;d been trying to shoot through a glass with water droplets on it (the water droplets magnify and distort the image underneath) but I just couldn&#8217;t get it to work.  Since I had the Scrabble board out anyway, I thought I could figure out something to do with it.  It was actually Beloved who came up with the idea of putting the blog title out on it.  Might work well as a banner some day, with some tweaking!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/4084470120\/\" title=\"291:365 Postcards from the Mothership by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2772\/4084470120_074aeb4673.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"291:365 Postcards from the Mothership\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When it gets to be the end of the day and I still don&#8217;t have a picture, I&#8217;ve gotten in the habit of practicing my portraits with the kids.  This one was a near-miss &#8212; something about it bugs me, it just doesn&#8217;t do him justice &#8212; but good enough for the picture of the day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/4091409948\/\" title=\"293:365 Lucas laughing by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2503\/4091409948_ae54a74128.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"342\" height=\"500\" alt=\"293:365 Lucas laughing\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I took this one a couple of days later, and *finally* got the picture I was trying to capture over the last couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/4095435335\/\" title=\"Lucas in the land of chalk drawings by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2523\/4095435335_09a2707eea.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"337\" alt=\"Lucas in the land of chalk drawings\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Hey, Project 365 is all about learning, right?  And I&#8217;ve learned that you have to take a LOT of shots to get just a few good ones.)<\/p>\n<p>And the very same day, I took this one, which is one of my favourite pictures ever.  I didn&#8217;t even notice the bubble on his lips until I was sorting through the pictures later that day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/4096858332\/\" title=\"295:365 Bubble breath by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2555\/4096858332_aae3fe0ed7.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"295:365 Bubble breath\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This next image was inspired by a really amazing TtV shot of one of my contact&#8217;s toy camera collection.  It&#8217;s nowhere near as wicked-cool as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thonknet\/4030334425\/\">his shot<\/a>, but it&#8217;s mine and I like it fine.  My small but growing vintage camera collection:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/4086342735\/\" title=\"292:365 TtV camera family portrait by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2776\/4086342735_67517562b2.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"292:365 TtV camera family portrait\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saw this on my way to work, driving along the Canal early one morning and it caught my eye.  They&#8217;ve got the little huts in place for Winterlude skating, making for an interesting reflection in the still Canal water.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/4094130278\/\" title=\"294:365 Waiting for Winterlude by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2656\/4094130278_aa66b743ea.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"294:365 Waiting for Winterlude\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I see these as my transitional pictures.  They&#8217;re half-way between fall and winter &#8212; frost on leaves!  The first version is the macro, through a close-up filter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/4099540044\/\" title=\"296:365 Frosty leaf by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2468\/4099540044_7b933870a3.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"296:365 Frosty leaf\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And this is the non-macro version:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/4098782715\/\" title=\"296b:365 The non-macro version! by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2741\/4098782715_714469cfcb.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"296b:365 The non-macro version!\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please admire that tiny sparkle of sunlight in the very centre of the frame, because it pretty much perfectly captures how I feel right now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;ve managed to clamber over the brick wall of uninspiration that&#8217;s been sitting on my Muse for the last week or so. After about 10 days of feeling completely uninspired and worse, feeling like a talentless hack who happened to luck into a few good shots, I am feeling rejuvenated and excited about &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/11\/13\/project-365-lovely-light-and-yes-more-leaves\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Project 365: I am running out of titles for these posts!&#8221;<\/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-3225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225","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=3225"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3229,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions\/3229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}