Who’s been walking on my snow?
(The answer is… a skunk. Not much of a mystery, but it’s better than what I had.)
Tag: D90
Day Nine – Warmth & the Quality of Light
Warmth? Really? After the winter we’ve had they want me to take a picture that represents warmth? Yeah, right.
Day Eight – Natural World – Take Two
Wouldn’t you know it, as I was walking out the door to go to work the sun started breaking through the fog. Damn it!
Day Eight – Natural World
Nature… that’s what they want. When I leave for work in the morning it’s dark. When I get home it’s dark. Not much chance for nature for me.
This was taken out of the back door. It’s a two second exposure. Pretty much the best I could hope for today. It would have been awesome if a deer had come by, but no luck today.
Day Four – Identify Your Audience
Today’s blogging 101 prompt is to identify your target audience, and write a post directed at them.
I’ve been struggling with this idea (well… not really struggling) since I started using Blogger a little more than six years ago. Who was I writing to? Who did I want to read what I wrote? Do I want to pick a specific topic and stick to it?
No. I wanted it to be a source for any stray idea that popped into my pea brain. No topic. If I wanted to post about photography, I would post about photography.
If I wanted to post about music, I would post about music.
(and hey, did anyone else know you could embed tracks from spotify into wordpress.com posts? I didn’t, but I do now. It’s possible an entire new world of goofiness may have just opened to me)
If I want to post about the Red Sox (I’m seeing a .500 team with an amazing offense and a mediocre pitching staff, and what do you mean Castillo is already injured?) or the Bruins (what do you mean Connolly is already injured?) I will. If I want to post millions of camera phone pictures of my cat acting like a lazy asshole, then I will.
What it comes down to is simple. I will write whatever I feel like, whenever I feel like it.
Does that mean I don’t have a target audience? Maybe, but no. It does not. There is a target audience. There is someone for whom each post is targeted.
Hi Jen. I love you with all my heart. I hope your having a good morning at work. Smoooooch.
Day Four – Bliss
Today’s photo prompt is bliss. This is a tough one. Tough enough that I am breaking one of my personal unwritten rules. I decided after posting the first photo101 picture that I wasn’t going to use any text other than the post title. You’d see the topic in the title, see the picture, and then you either would or would not get the connection. I don’t really care either way. Seeing as I am generally a super literal type I would guess that getting the connection is going to be pretty obvious.
For this one though… Bliss. It could mean so many things. What are the things that make me ridiculously happy?
Well, music has historically been my go to for happiness. How do I represent music in a photograph? That’s easy.
But does music make me happier than anything else? It’s definitely high on the list, but there are other serious contenders. Over the last 10 years or so traveling has become a source of major happiness for me. I love seeing new places, or seeing old places in a new way. How can I represent travel in a photograph without breaking another rule and using old pictures? The answer there is pretty obvious too.
That’s a good option, but is it the best option? Probably not. Nothing makes me happier than being at home with my family. How do I represent that in a photograph without showing pictures of the kids, which I will not do? Well, it’s a bit of a stretch, but the connection is accurate. Ms Patches can be the symbol of the family.
Yeah, that’s good and all, but what is the origin of the happiness that I feel when I’m at home with my family? What is the source of it all? Well, that’s easy. It’s easy and it’s obvious and it is my #1 answer for a photograph that depicts what the word Bliss means to me. No question about it. This is bliss.
Day Three – Water
Left Over Sunrises
This morning when I took my really awful photo101 pic I found three pictures on my camera that I’d forgotten about. All sunrises.
One day last weekend I woke up as the sun was rising and saw the reddest red sky I’d ever seen through the trees behind the house.
The picture failed to even come close.
On our last morning in New York when I woke up to get ready to pack up the car the sunrise out the window looked amazing.
The picture failed to even come close, but…
This one was okay.
Day Two – Street
I’m on the Top of the World, Ma!
It seems like a wasted trip if you visit New York and don’t go to the top of a huge building. Still, we weren’t planning on climbing the Empire State Building last weekend. We were just walking south on 5th avenue and there were so many rude, arrogant, pushy, assholes trying to sell us Empire State Building stuff that we blew them off and then went into the building just to spite them. It was a great idea, of course, but it was so… effin’… cold… Actually, it was cold but not bad when we first stepped out onto the observation deck. It wasn’t until we turned a corner to look East that it hit us. The wind. Oh. My. God. The wind chill dropped the temperature from really cold to OH MY GOD ITS TOO COLD TO SURVIVE. That’s when we went back inside.
Looking south toward the only building in town that is taller than the Empire State Building. The Freedom Tower is supposed to have an observation level, but it’s not open yet.
The Statue of Liberty just looks so teeny tiny.
Psst… hey… all of these New York pics are using my new lens. How’s she doing?
There was a huge warehouse fire in Brooklyn that took about two days to put out.
The love of my life, on top of the world with me.
We made some feathery friends.
You can actually see the boats shooting water onto the fire.
The Chrysler Building is still my favorite of all the New York skyscrapers.
Rats with wings.
This is the Langham Hotel. Our room was on the 21st floor on the right corner.
Central Park.
Normally when you go to the top of the Empire State Building it is absolutely mobbed. On this day? You might have guessed, this corner was getting the worst of the wind. The word of the morning was, “Brr”.
Inside the Red Head's Head 