{"id":7739,"date":"2012-12-23T08:16:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T13:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=7739"},"modified":"2012-12-23T08:16:01","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T13:16:01","slug":"this-week-in-pictures-its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2012\/12\/23\/this-week-in-pictures-its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"This week in pictures: It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span>t’s been a while since I posted the weekly picture round-up. I’ve been taking a photo most days, but especially through November there were a handful of days I skipped. I missed it, though, and though I should have finished my third 365 project tomorrow, I’m running about a week and a half behind. Call it 365 in 375.<\/p>\n

I’d had the idea for this photo in my head for literally a year. I was inspired by a version I saw last Christmas, and for the whole year I noodled the idea of tying up the boys in Christmas lights and taping their mouths with a bit of duct tape and printing the text “Silent Night, indeed!” in a festive red font. I even bought old-school white lights during a Boxing Day sale and put them away especially for it. Except, it turns out every other photographer in the western hemisphere had the same idea. And on the only day I had the right combination of good light in the house and the time required to put together the set-up, Tristan was sick with a bad cold. He gamely played along, but not in the best humour and it was not at all the fun shoot I had envisioned. And we had run out of duct tape.<\/p>\n

\"Christmas<\/a><\/p>\n

This is not even close to the shot I had been imagining all year. Really, I only took about three snaps before I realized it wasn’t going to work out and called the whole thing off. But then I went back and looked at these and decided I loved them anyway, for all the wrong reasons. I love the evil delight of Lucas, who was SO into the idea of tying up his brothers and taping their mouths. I love Simon’s perfect expression. And I love Tristan’s expression, too: annoyance, with a hint of “seriously?” and a goodly amount of “I’m only doing this so you’ll let me play video games when we’re done.” I tell you, it’s not easy being the kid of a photographer who’s creativity is always just a wee bit outside her ability to execute.<\/p>\n

This photo was a remnant from that amazing ice fog we had a little while back. This is a little patch of holly I found in a concrete planter on Elgin Street. I love how festive the frost makes it look. Would you guess it was on a sidewalk beside a busy urban street?<\/p>\n

\"Frosted<\/a><\/p>\n

There is something about the overwrought clich\u00c3\u00a9 of a holiday photo that I just can’t resist. Crank up the romanticism and bring on the glitter. See?<\/p>\n

\"Vintage<\/a><\/p>\n

And this one, a Santa my mom gave me years ago and still one of my favourite decorations. I took this on my kitchen table, and just threw a string of white lights in the background, then used the shallowest depth of field (lowest aperture number, in this case f1.4) to throw the lights out of focus.<\/p>\n

\"Ho<\/a><\/p>\n

I kinda liked the set-up, so I milked it for all it was worth! And then I added MOAR GLITTER!<\/p>\n

\"Bokeh<\/a><\/p>\n

More ice fog pictures from downtown. You can see I’m still not too picky on actually *taking* a photo so much as *posting* a new photo each day.<\/p>\n

\"Christmas<\/a><\/p>\n

And then it snowed!!<\/p>\n

\"Snow<\/a><\/p>\n

My Getty statement came in this week, and I found this one of Willie I thought I’d share. You might remember this photo appeared in the December issue of Good Housekeeping magazine, and it’s also being used this month on NBC Universal’s Petside<\/a> website.<\/p>\n

\"Found<\/a><\/p>\n

Willie the misbehaving cat. Yep.<\/p>\n

So tell me, bloggy friends: should I keep these weekly photo posts up in the new year? I toyed with simply posting my photo of the day every day as its own post, pretty much duplicating what I put on Flickr, and I toyed with not blogging them at all. I figure I’ll keep taking photos in the new year, cuz I can’t seem to stop. What do you think? Do you like these posts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been a while since I posted the weekly picture round-up. I’ve been taking a photo most days, but especially through November there were a handful of days I skipped. I missed it, though, and though I should have finished my third 365 project tomorrow, I’m running about a week and a half behind. Call … Continue reading “This week in pictures: It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!”<\/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-7739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7739","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=7739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7741,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7739\/revisions\/7741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}