Still Life and Chickens

Today I restarted my photography course and went outside to take pictures. I almost did this one for the photo of the day.

I haven't taken still life photos for a while and really enjoyed it.

I missed Villan's first look, but you can still tell the cat was intimidated by the rooster and wanted to leave the barn, but wouldn't go past Roman. It was amusing. And no, our barn isn't for animals, it's for storage-books, mostly-but they got in anyways today.

Portraits at a Variety Show

Taking pictures at a church or other similar event is fun, because you can take candid portraits, often without the subject ever realizing you took it. At this year's variety show, held on New Year's Day, I took quite a few I liked, though I had to have the ISO (the sensor's sensitivity) high and the quality wasn't generally very good. It made my decision for the photo of the day difficult. Here are my top choices:

The one I decided to do

Landon saw me taking pictures and posed for me:

Judah kept smiling for me, so I got several cute ones of him. He was showing me his gum.

Eric sang The Impossible Note, Melody's rewrite of The Impossible Dream. Doesn't he look snazzy in his suit coat and bow tie?

Sometimes, the most enjoyable part of the acts is watching the reaction of others:

Wolfgang didn't want me to take his picture, so he waved his hands in front of his face.

I love this picture of Norton! He looks so serious.

Kristen & Grace

Audrey

was thrilled

when she saw me taking lots of pictures of her.

There were quite a few more than those three ;-).

I like this one. :-)

Kind of a neat picture, though it would have been better if I got it before she noticed I was taking it.

This is such a cute picture of Mercy:

A Photo A Day...

I've seen several people who attempt to post a picture every day. They usually don't last long. I started doing this on my old blog (see A (Sort of) Recovered Blog) and kept it up for a while. I liked the idea of doing it, so I decided to try again. I'm not sure how my year, even this first month will be (who am I kidding? - "...you do not know what will happen tomorrow"), so we'll see how well I keep it up. Things like this usually don't last, but maybe having it on my blog will help.

I wanted all of them to be together, so I started another blog just for them, though it's really just an extension of this one. The link is at the side. As I did before, I may post a poem to go along with the photo, though I haven't on the first two.

So, we'll see how long A Photo a Day...keeps me clicking away.