I never promised you a rose garden

If this tells you anything about the weather today, this is not a black and white photo.  It's a "bleak" and white photo.  The only good thing about the weather today is it is better than yesterday!  Anyway, we were down in NoDa and I saw this gate to the McGill Rose Garden.  While nothing was growing, somehow, just knowing it was there made me feel sunnier.

Water drop

The weather is nasty so I'm stuck inside on a rainy, dark day trying to think of something creative to shoot. I decided to try capturing a water drop.  I didn't have enough light to use a fast enough shutter speed to get the shot I was looking for.  When I increased the ISO, I had too much noise, so this one was the best I could get.  This takes a lot of patience and lots of shots.  I'd like to try this from a side angle (this was shooting down on the drop at an angle) to get the "crown" clearly.  I'll have to figure out a way to set it up, but it was fun trying and I'll try it again.

Outside looking in

My mind wasn't very creative today.....thank heavens for my cats.  This is a photo of Hobbes looking out our kitchen window.  I took it from outside and got a nice reflection of the sky in the window.  This would have been an easier photo if I hadn't needed to go into Photoshop and zap the spots off my dirty window!

I can't believe it happened to me

For our final project this week in our composition class, our assignment was to "tell a story" in 5 images.  Since so many of my friends have lost their jobs in the past year or so, I decided to tell the story of what it feels like to be displaced.  Here are the images I'm using for the project.  What really makes the project, however is the audio I'm doing with the "installation".  Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to link an audio file here (hopefully I'll figure it out sometime).  Anyway, I appreciate George's help in being my subject for this week.  (He's very happy this is my last assignment!)

Johnny and friend

This is my good friend Johnny and his friend Jake.  Johnny is helping me with a project and indulged me with a photo op!

Found puppy

Today I found this adorable stray dog in the snow....cold, muddy and wet.  I'm happy to say that tonight he is reunited with his family and home safe and sound.  I forgot my manual focus was on, so it's not the clearest, but he was so cute I wanted to share him!

George reading document

I took a bunch of photos today for my final project for my composition class.  Our assignment is to tell a story through 5 images and this photo of George reading a document is one part of that story.  I'll be posting the entire project later this week (so this will probably reappear in some form) but since I only took photos for this project, that's all I have to post.  It will make more sense later this week.

But....as of tonight, I have officially taken and posted a photo every day in January!  One month down, only eleven to go!