Project 52: Week 3 {Shades of Grey}

Scavenger Hunt 101 {#22 Your Bed}

For some reason this was harder than I expected.  Took me awhile to get something I liked.  

Project 52: Week 1 {Around the House}

Like I said, since the project 365 last year was a bit too much for me I've decided to scale it down for this year.  So I joined the MCP Project 52: Photo a Week group on flickr.  Each week will have a theme that you can follow.  Or not.  This week I went with it.

Our bedroom hallway is pretty much a family photo wall.  At the top are these two photos of my maternal grandparents or "Babci & Dziadziu" as we called them.  My grandfather was polish.

They met while serving in the army.  She was a mechanic and he was a driver and would bring vehicles in to be serviced.  

Spokes {34/365}

{34/365} February 3

Today I used Picnik to edit my photo. They just reached their one billionth photo edited so they opened up their premium features for free for 24 hours. You still have until 9am tomorrow (Thursday) to try them out. I used the "Gritty" effect for this.

Shell {33/365}

{33/365} February 2

I've been trying to experiment with adding textures. It's kinda fun, and not quite as hard as I thought it would be. I love the way this one turned out. The original was quite b-o-r-i-n-g!

Can you spare some change? {20/365}

{20/365} January 20

Seems my whole family is ready with ideas for my 365 project! Which is just fine with me. My daughter needed pennies for school so my mom dumped her change jar out for her to dig through. Well, they thought it looked cool and couldn't start picking out the pennies until I got my camera out.

To read {13/365}

{13/365} January 13

A portion of my 'to read' pile.

The problem with taking and posting a photo every day is that there are going to be days where you are stuck for ideas or you don't feel like taking a photo or you aren't really satisfied with how the ones you did take turned out.

This is one of those days. I had no idea what I wanted to photograph. I tried a couple of things that just weren't working. So I settled on this one.

Green Rose {11/365}

{11/365} January 11

This rose is made out of five $1 bills. I've had it for about 12 or 13 years now. It was part of an employee award I got one month when I worked in a bank as a CSR (Customer Service Rep).

Colorful {10/365}

{10/365} January 10

Project 365 anyone?

Wow, I can't believe I've been MIA for over a month! It was not intentional but I'm back and ready to roll.

I'll be attempting a Project 365, one photo a day for the whole year. I'll be putting them all in a smugmug gallery. I may not post them here daily (maybe weekly), we'll see how it goes.

{1/365} January 1

Handmade wooden cross

Peeling paint

I've always liked the look of old weathered wood with peeling paint. This is a close up of part of a picnic table.

Faces Week 39 {Favorite Things}

What are my favorite things? They include my hubby.....

My daughters, Skowt........

and Tiger...........

Books like Harry Potter...........

and the Twilight Saga.......

CHOCOLATE!............

Hot air balloons.........I hope to be able to ride in one someday

Fireworks............

and Lighthouses...........

And the list goes on but don't have pics to go along with them!

Soda Can

I reluctantly let my younger (9 yo) daughter snap a few photos yesterday. I have issues letting other people hold/use my camera! LOL The first week I got it my mother-in-law just about dropped it and I've been paranoid ever since.

Anyway, I thought I'd share one that she took. She was photographing this can from all different angles. I thought this one turned out pretty good.

Locked up

Fun Money

I was just goofing around the other day after playing at the casino and took this. It's always fun when you come home with more than you started with!

Beginning

So I've been lurking over at Her Space My Space His Space for awhile now. They post a new set of photos each day that represent the word of the day. Anyone is welcome to join in at any time.

Today's word is BEGINNING, so I figured it's a good time for me to finally start joining in. It's the beginning of a new year, a new week. The kids have gone back to school and I'm planning to really work on my photography this year. Hopefully it will improve, this isn't the best photo but it's what I came up with for today's word.

Art work

This is one of my daughter's art projects from 5th grade. This was harder to photograph than I thought. I tried it in a few different places. Basically the lighting in our house sucks!

Show Me: Kitchen

Today's show me challenge is your kitchen.

Sorry, but my kitchen is a little, um.....cluttered so I'm not sharing the entire room.

I'll just go with the fun part of it....my hubby's lunchbox collection!

He has them all displayed in the area between the upper cabinets and the ceiling.

I tried to get a shot of the entire collection but that just didn't work well.

This is one of my favorites. I was a big Dukes of Hazzard and John Schneider fan as a young teen.

"I pity the fool..."

Stop by Thoughts of a father to join in the fun!

Show Me: Mailbox

Robert over at Thoughts of a Father started a new project called "Show Me". Each day this week we all share certain objects from our daily life. Stop by his blog if you'd like to participate and to see the other entries.

Today's challenge is our mailbox.

I love getting snail mail! Always have. Well, as long as it's not bills and junk. My box is the closest. We live in a subdivision where all the mailboxes are uniform (black, plastic mounted on these wooden posts), except for a few here and there that have had to be replaced. Like the one next to ours which is metal. The hinges on the plastic door aren't very sturdy so some have had to replace their box. The wooden box underneath is for newspapers. They also get filled with flyers, catalogs and junk from local businesses.

Project Green, Take 3

My daughter's favorite color is green so of course she had to have the green ipod with green earbuds and the green glucose monitor. She also sleeps with this green "squishy" pillow on her bed.

To take part in Project Green or see other entries visit Anna's blog