My Week of Photos

Even though I have a few photo prompt lists printed out, I didn't really follow any of them this past week. So what did I capture with my DSLR?

ISO 400, f/2.5, 1/1000 sec with 50 mm lens

Our next door neighbor has this bush that blooms at the beginning of February every year. It is always a welcome sight in the middle of winter.

ISO 100, f/1.8, 1/4000 sec with 50 mm lens

I wasn't really sure what to take a photo of on this day, so I headed out to my backyard. On warm afternoons, I love sitting in my backyard to read. Those chairs that have been stacked up and unused during winter receive a lot of use when the weather is nice.

ISO 800, f/2.0, 1/125 sec with 50mm lens

Since I have been doing a lot of decluttering, I realized I still have this stack of flannel to make into baby blankets. Hoping to make time to get these finished soon...

ISO 800, f/22, 1/60 sec

This past weekend, I headed up to one of my favorite places for the day...Yosemite! Since I was by myself, I had time to do some experimenting with different settings on my camera.

ISO 400, f/22, 1/4 sec

I usually don't have the opportunity to try out different things on my camera when I am out on a day trip with other people. And I have been wanting to experiment with some long exposure water shots. Today, since nobody was waiting on me, I had a chance to give it a try!

ISO 800, f/13, 1/5 sec

And because I had my tripod with me, I set it up on my way out of the park at this spot. I probably spent at least half an hour here, adjusting the white balance and using different shutter speeds. I could have shared many more photos with you from my day in Yosemite, but really, you just need to make a trip there. It is one of my most favorite places to spend the day.

ISO 100, f/2.5, 1/80 sec with 50mm lens

Monday is a pretty busy day for me. Laundry, meal planning, vacuuming, groceries. Every now and then, I like to splurge on flowers for my home. What do you like to splurge on?

ISO 400, f/1.8, 1/640 sec with 50mm lens

We are still having some cold mornings here, even though our day time temperatures have been in the low 70s. Still waiting for the bulbs in my backyard to bloom...

What have your captured with your camera this week?

My Week of Photos

What did I capture this week with my DSLR camera?

ISO 400, f/2.0, 1/80 sec with 50mm lens

I love an excuse to bake! One day last week was National Chocolate Cake Day, so I baked a batch of chocolate cupcakes and sold most of them for my Bake for Brazil fundraiser. Pretty excited that I was able to raise $50 last week for Compassion kids in Brazil!

ISO 400, f/2.0, 1/500 sec with 50mm lens

Took advantage of a break in the rain, set up one of my favorite childhood books in the backyard to capture this one. What children's book is your favorite?

ISO 100, f/10, 1/640 sec

After we got home from church on Sunday, my daughter and I drove around a bit, looking for the perfect spot to take photos of the clouds moving in. 

ISO 100, f/5.3, 1/400 sec

This is not a very exciting photo. And I really should have brought all these quart size canning jars in for the winter. But this just shows that we have been receiving a lot of much needed rain out here in California!

ISO 400, f/2.5, 1/80 sec with 50 mm lens

Hard to believe we are in the second month of this new year already! Time to put away the winter decorations and bring out the Valentine decorations. Pages from an old, used copy of Persuasion were used to make this craft which hangs in our windows in February.

ISO 800, f/2.5, 1/80 sec with 50mm lens

A few more handmade Valentine decorations are out. Add a bit of paint to some glue and paint the outside of a couple of canning jars. Attach a paper heart doily and tie it with a bit of ribbon or twine, and you have a cute new candle holder for your tealight candles on these dark winter nights.

What did you capture this week?

My Week of Photos

What did I capture this week?

ISO 400, f/2.2, 1/400 sec with 50 mm lens

The prompt for this day was 'under'. I am sure I could have been a little more creative with this one, but this seems to work.

ISO 1600, f/2.5, 1/60 sec with 50 mm lens

I am in the middle of a big quilt project right now, two twin size quilts. I spent the weekend cutting out lots and lots and lots of squares.

ISO 400, f/5.6, 1/80 sec

Most of the time, my 50mm lens lives on my camera. But when I saw all the little birds flying around our backyard, I put on my 55-200mm lens and tried to capture a few of these busy little guys. Boy, they are quick. As soon as I would focus on one, they would fly away. I cropped this one in so you can see the bird a little better, but it is not as crisp as I would like. He is cute though.

ISO 400, f/2.5, 1/125 sec with 50 mm lens

Learning that it was 'Pie Day' gave me an excuse to bake. I was hoping to make a lemon pie, but since I didn't have any lemons on hand, cherry was a welcome substitute.

ISO 400, f/10, 1/50 sec

We have gotten quite a bit of rain lately, and with all the clouds, I knew the sunsets have given us lots of colorful sunsets. I took my camera and drove down the road, but wasn't finding exactly what I was looking for. Until I saw all those pink clouds at the end of the orchard.

ISO 800, f/4.0, 1/500 sec with 50 mm lens

My bulbs are blooming!! Whenever I see this in the middle of winter, I wish I had taken the time to plant more bulbs in the fall. Now to be on watch for those first blooms...

ISO 1600, f/2.8, 1/80 sec with 50 mm lens

I know, two food photos in one week. But I didn't pick up my camera at all during the day yesterday, so dinner it was. This is Chicken with Mustard Cream Sauce from The Pioneer Woman. Pretty easy to throw together, even on a weeknight.

What did you capture this week?

My Week of Photos

This past week, I didn't have a chance to pick up my DSLR as much as I would have hoped to, but I did manage to play around with three prompts from the Capture Your 365 daily prompts:

f/7.1, ISO 100, 1/400 sec

Day 13 - Mostly White: Yes, we live in California, where everyone thinks are days are filled with blue skies at all times. But we have been receiving such much needed rain this month. So we have seen our fair share of cloud filled skies. These cloud filled skies usually produce some pretty spectacular sunsets, but I just haven't made the time to venture out of my warm house to capture those sunsets...yet.

f/5.6, ISO 1600, 1/13 sec

Day 14 - Black And White: this little spot was just screaming to be a black and white photo! This clock and stack of books sit on a little table next to our couch. By focusing on the clock, the stack of books is slightly out of focus, which was precisely the look I was going for. I tried moving things around a bit, but this composition looked the best to me.

f/5.6, ISO 1600, 1/8 sec

Day 16 - Sepia: a big storm blew through here the other morning, so I lit a few candles to brighten up the room a little. I tried shooting this one vertical, but I liked the horizontal better. And because all the book covers are different colors, I like the way this looks in sepia.

So, what have you captured this week using your camera?

Linking up this week with Black & White Wednesdays

My Week of Photos

One of my goals this year is to pick up my DSLR and use it every single day. To help me along the way, I will mainly be using the daily photo prompts from Capture Your 365. But every now and then, I might use another photo challenge list or get a little creative on my own.

This week, I pretty much stuck with the list from Capture Your 365 except for one (and I will let you know which one that was). So here is my week of photos to share with you:

f/1.8, 1/80 sec, ISO 400 with 50mm lens

Day 6 - Pushing Myself: I fell out of my routine of walking at least three times a week during the holidays, but our January winter weather is not cooperating. Well, to be honest, we really do need the rain here in California. So I guess I will just keep a better eye on the weather and schedule my walks on days when I know it shouldn't rain.

f/2.5, 1/60 sec, ISO 400 with 50mm lens

Day 7 - Good For Me: I have been using the MapMyWalk app for some time now to record my weekly walking activity. I love being able to see the progress I have made.

f/2.0, 1/160 sec, ISO 800 with 50mm lens

Day 8 - Where I Stand: On these cold winter afternoons, I like to treat myself to a hot homemade drink, with whipped cream of course. After all, those calories that I burn on my walks have to be made up somewhere.

f/2.5, 1/125 sec, ISO 800 with 50mm lens

Day 9 - A Relationship: I am getting ready to work on two big quilting projects, so I needed to do some calculations and some test blocks. A quilting ruler and a rotary cutter are the perfect match for a quilting project.

f/2.0, 1/80 sec, ISO 800 with 50mm lens

Day 10 - Monochrome: a monochrome photo is one that can either be black and white or one in varying tones of one color. Since we had homemade waffles for breakfast on Sunday morning, I thought they would be the perfect subject for this prompt.

f/2.5, 1/1600 sec, ISO 100 with 50mm lens

Day 11 - Complimentary: since it wasn't raining on this day, I found a couple of complimentary colors in my home and took them in the backyard to use the natural daylight. Looks like I didn't quite focus on my subject very well. That is why we practice, right?

f/5.6, 1/50 sec, ISO 100 with a x2 macro lens

Day 12: the prompt for today was draw. Since I couldn't think of anything to capture using this prompt, I decided to try out one of my new macro lenses. These lenses screw into my existing 18-55mm lens. I am looking forward to experimenting with these more this year.

So that is my first full week of photos using the Capture Your 365 photo prompts!

Are you participating in the photo challenge? Be sure to share a link to where you are posting your photos. I would love to see how you capture these same daily prompts!