Saratoga bw

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Three of us went to Saratoga this past Tuesday for a field trip.  The "assignment" was bw street photography.  We put our cameras on the bw function and shot everything in bw.  Well....., almost everything.

We each had the same 7-point checklist and our goal was to get images that fit each of the 7 points.  The images here are not the ones I'm using for my assignment.  I might post them after we have our meeting.  But in the meantime, these are some of the other images I got that day.

Saratoga wasn't as crowded as we had hoped it would be.  That made it a little more challenging to get the kinds of street images I was hoping for.  But it was still great being out in the beautiful weather with good friends doing what we love to do~~photography.

I saw these plants on an outside window sill and loved the way they looked.

But after getting the image in bw, I decided to switch to color to see how it would look.  I actually like this particular scene better in color.  What do you think?

Getting Ready

Not much time left...beginning to think about packing and shipping things back to NY. Sigh!

Posted at noon on Friday, March 27, 2009

PS, if it's any consolation to my fellow mvpers, in just 5 short days we will have completed 1/2 of the assignment of posting at least one photo a day for a year.

Congratulations to all of you!

Seeing Through A Glass Darkly

In my friend's house, there is a panel of these wavy thick panes of glass alongside their front door. I thought of it the minute I heard what the special assignment was for Thursday. So these are a few of the images I made with that great glass.

That was all I was going to post. But my friend Jackie is taking hula lessons and she asked me to come to her class and video one of the junior instructors as she was leading the class during one of the dances. The tallest girl in the back with the blond hair is the one I videoed. She was really amazing.

As I was getting ready to leave, I saw the class get together for this group shot. I grabbed my camera and got it going as quickly as I could. I didn't want to use flash, so it's at 1600 asa, and still isn't very sharp, but it got the shot. How cute are they?

I tried for a second shot, but they were too quick for me.

Here the girls are sitting listening to the closing instructions.

Posted at 7:40 pm on Thurs, March 12, 2009

Keys

The "Thursday assignment" is keys. Even when I gave the assignment I was wondering what I'd do for the images, since my keys are pretty boring. And then I made the mistake of reading everyone else's blog--all that nostalgia and emotion. So I figured I had to do something creative, which would be a double challenge with the point and shoot.

The first image is what the keys look like normally.

Then I moved the camera sideways a little.

Then I moved it up.
I like the results.

Posted at 7:30 on Thurs., Feb 12, 2009