Take a Picture - Day 208 - Gumballs

Take a Picture - Day 207 - Pig Out

Today I went to a pig roasting that was celebrating a marine home coming for my brother in law's girlfriend's brother!  He wanted a pig roasting and the family got a piglet to roast from my husband cousin who works for a poultry farm.  This was my first pig roasting and it tasted real good and of course Tom ate the pig's head and enjoyed it very much!

Take a Picture - Day 206 - Take a guess #8

Here is the answer to yesterday's puzzle

A GE bulb!

Here is today's puzzle guess in honor of my upcoming green exhibit

Take a Picture - Day 205 - Take a Guess #7

Haven't done one of these in awhile, so have fun guessing!

I will reveal the answer tomorrow!

Take a Picture - Day 204 - Global View

I was catching up on my photography email and every week I get a Fine Art America update telling me about visitor to my site and if I sold anything.  Although nobody has bought my artwork I was amazed to see the locations of the visitors who looked at my photos!  Hopefully soon I will sell one!

Take a Picture - Day 203 (7-26-11) - STP

Last night I went to my first STP (Stone Temple Pilots) with my friend Lori at the Stone Pony in Asbury park.  I've been to a concert at the Stone Pony before 10 yrs ago indoors.  This time the concert was outdoors for their summer concert series.  

When we get to the gate to get in (with minutes to spare before the concert was going to start) they do a bag check as usual and saw my camera and the lady said I had to take it back to my car because of the size and it looked professional and wasn't a point and shoot and checked with another guy who said that same thing and I told the guy my camera was not professional.  I told him it wasn't (its not even a SLR it's a point and shoot).  So i thought I could just keep it in my bag and not use it, but then the bag check lady was like no you have to to bring it back now. 

So we had to walk back to the car which was a couple of blocks away.   It was annoying that they get all uptight about that when some people bring other stuff that is not so legal and you can smell in the air if you know what I mean!  At least by the time we walked back they had just begun their first song!

Overall the concert was good, but I was a bit disappointed that they didn't play a popular song of theirs which is my favorite, Interstate Love Song.   Also the concert ended earlier than i thought it would, but maybe since they are older they can't play as long lol lol

Here are some pictures I took with my phone camera:

Take a Picture - Day 202 - Flower Favorite

I love sunflowers and while I haven't seen any in person so far this year my pillow is the next best thing!

Take a picture - Days 200 & 201 - weekend

Day 200

Another attempt at night into day

Day 201

Fun with neon taken with outdoor setting but the slight movement from me created this!

We have an iguana in our family and had to take this, except that this neon iguana is more green than the real life one that is more on the orange side!

Take a Picture - Day 199 - Heat Wave Necessity

Tonight I went to Carvel on Summit ave in Hackensack and had a really yummy sundae of banana ice cream with nilla wafers mixed in it.  Great way to cool down!

Take a Picture - Day 198 - The Heat is On

Since it's soo hot today I felt it appropriate to have a heated photo!  This is a photo of my thermostat in my upstairs attic, it's so hot the level has no more room to go right it stopped at 95!

Take a Picture - Day 197 - Tiny Bubbles

Take a Picture - Day 196 - Night into Day - Take 3

I'm still fascinated with this experimenting with this effect.  When I got home tonight I noticed the clouds and how the sky wasn't as dark and decided to try it again.  Here are my results:


Manual setting, F4 stop, 4 second exposure, ISO 1600

Manual setting, F4 stop, 8 second exposure, ISO 1600

Take a Picture - Day 195 - Blue fish in a red sea

Tom went fishing today with friends and they got lucky and caught a lot of blue fish and they cooked some when they got back, but there was so much left over that Tom took all of this back home!  Gee I know what we'll be eating for the next few days, good thing I like it lol

Take a Picture - Day 194 - Negative

I forgot my camera when I went out today so I made due with my phone camera and discovered that it had a negative color setting so I took pictures of familiar objects like the chandelier that hangs in the lobby of the Morristown Hyatt and it came out interesting!

Take a Picture - Day 193 - Beach Day

Today I spent the day at Ocean Grove and before I left the house I went to take my aluminum water bottle that I put last night in the freezer and I guess I filled it up a little bit too much because this is what happened:   Behold the Power of Ice!

After spending time on the beach and before we went home I got my camera from the car and took these pictures from the pier!

Looking towards Bradley Beach

 

Fishing Club

 

Looking towards Asbury Park

Take a Picture - Day 192 - drive by shooting

Was experimenting with my camera by shooting from the car while Tom was driving.  Here are some results.


shot this picutre with my manual setting while stopped at a traffic light, do you see a familar face in the photo!  I must've gotten it in the reflection of the window.

Took this with the sports setting:

Take a Picture - Day 191 - O +

Today I donated blood today at the paramus blood center mostly because they were giving out free gas cards if you donated and also my type is O+ and I know that is need edmore often.  When your done on the way out they make sure your're ready to go and to eat and drink and they had this free sticker to take home.

Also I noticed they had photography hanging up on various in the waiting area and snack area which interested me as well.  I will have to look into that and maybe have my work hang up there, a lot of people go in and out of there just like the library.

Then afterwards I got my oil change at sears (had a coupon of course) and killed time in the paramus park mall and visited one of my favorite stores there (Disney Store) and just when I thought I had them all low and behold I saw another kermit shirt I didn't have and of course had to get it!

Take a Picture - Day 190 - Shadow Leaves

I've been noticing lately the way the street light make these shadow leaves on the ground so I set my camera to manual and used the same setting I used to create the night into day effect and it worked!

Take a Picture - Day 189 - Jazzy

Tonight we went to Westfield for dinner (ate at Asian Fusion - good food) and walked around town for their annual Sweet Sounds Downtown Jazz Festival that they do every Tuesday night in July & August.  Every week they feature 4 different Jazz bands that are at different points in town and range from traditional jazz to modern jazz.

http://www.westfieldtoday.com/jazzfestival

Foxy Roxy by Train Station - funky jazz

Close up of drummer's front drum

Random man who was trying to dance swing music but looked like he was ska'ing

Jerry Topinka Band on corner of North street - sorta like guitar jazz

Guitar motion

Loved this sign!

La Blateuband on Elm Street more modern latin jazz

They had flashing multi colored lights flashing on them as they played!

all in all it was a nice time out (except for hitting traffic coming home on the parkway) and great music too!

Take a Picture - Day 188 - Mosaic

Take a Picture - Day 187 (7-10-11) - Goosebumps

Photo of a close up lime that's been in our kitchen for a week or two, never really noticed how the skin of it is goose bumpy texture lke that!