20/52 - Photo Project 2013

Week 20 was perhaps the craziest week of work in a long time. Lots of major events, and ones that required days longer than most. Still, I managed to sneak a few moments here and there. May 18th was actually a double photo event day - Chinese Cultural Days at the Missouri Botanical Garden, something I had never attended before and the Photo Flood for Lafayette Square - another place I'd never been but definitely want to re-visit when my feet aren't killing me.

Lots of choices, but this was the winner of the week:




A crisp clear raindrop - perfection.

Runners Up:

    


It's raining today, so I might get more of a chance to perfect my technique!

19/52 - Photo Project 2013

The fun thing about photography is that sometimes you never know where your opportunities are. I had not had a chance to take photos (no recent Floods or other photo explorations) yet, so I took my camera out to our courtyard at work on my way home. Luckily, pretty things were in bloom! 

Winner of the week:

Runner's up:

  

Here's to more opportunities in the next week... But looking back over the last 19 weeks, I'm really happy with the quality of the photos this project so far. But I can always get better! And that there, is the whole point of the project.

18/52 - Photo Project 2013

It's a little late, but I definitely had the pictures taken. I just haven't had time to post them. It was a crazy week at work, and then, I had a jam-packed weekend where I did a lot and slept very little. Well-worth it, though.

Winner of the week:



And runners up:





I haven't taken any photos yet this week... I better get cracking!

17/52 - Photo Project 2013

It's been an amazing week - with the Flickr blog accolades and all. When I looked back over the uploads to Flickr, I realized that the award-winning photo, so to speak, was within the project week. There are some other great photos, but I can't not choose it. So again, here's the 'winning' photo:

Also, this photo above, has at time of this blog post publishing, 1,961 views - the most EVER on any photo of mine.

But here are some runners up, including one taken yesterday:



   

I think it'll be a quiet photograph day today, but I'm off on Monday and Tuesday, so who knows what this week'll bring.

Flickr Blog (and other recent photographic accomplishments)!

There's a theme of the week group sanctioned by Flickr, called #Flickr Friday. They post a weekly theme on Fridays and we have the weekend (or so) to shoot it. I did the very first one, but have been a bit busy and have fallen off the wagon a little bit. But this last week's theme was Black and White - and on a whim, I converted some of my macro shots into B&W. And they picked mine to be in the blog!!

Check it out here!!

This is the winning photo:

It's 1 of 8 photos and there's about 4,000 people in the group (though I'm not sure how many actually submitted this week). The odds were not in my favor and I am really pleased as punch to have been recognized! And there are some stunning submissions to the pool.

Between that and recently winning back-to-back Photo Floods (best picture of the Flood) with Photo Flood St. Louis (Tower Grove East) and (Carondelet Park) - I'm kind of riding high on the fact that my peers and colleagues are liking my work!

I'm really honored by all of the 'wins' and it makes me want to work harder on continuously producing 'winning' results, at least in my book.

Here's to upcoming photographic adventures!

Macro Water Droplets

I may be obsessed with these now. I am really loving my macro lens - but this past Saturday, I had an opportunity to photograph a very dew drop'd hosta plant with fabulous results:

I got a really great compliment on this photo from a professional photographer - which had me feeling very nice.

And then, when I went back the following Monday, I was obsessed. Sadly, no frost or dew that morning, but I re-discovered the Climatron and spent literally HOURS in there obsessed with water droplets:

                  

                 

The next rainy day that I have off, you know where I'll be. Or a dew drop'd or frosty morning. I can't wait to learn more techniques in better capturing these droplets.

16/52 - Photo Project 2013

It has been quite the eventful week in American news: with the Boston Marathon bombing and the subsequent manhunt and a gigantic industrial accident has rocked the US and thrown them for a loop.

For me, it's been a quiet work-filled week but I didn't worry because I had another photo meetup with Photo Flood St Louis - this time in one of my favorite places on Earth: the Missouri Botanical Garden. It was chilly but warmed by the time we were done.  Again, I went with the macro lens but I had a lot of fun. Here's the winner for the week:



And the runners up:
 
    

I'm going to have to try hard to get some photo time in this week... another busy week at work for me. Perhaps a pre-work drive is in the cards today. Or tomorrow.

Incidentally, the first runner up photo, submitted to another meet-up group (two groups, one morning) is getting rave reviews. It's a really tough call on which one is better. I MUST try droplet photography again soon. It is so much fun. Definitely need patience and a tripod perhaps.