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started July 14 '08...

i've seen this project in two varieties.

one is a photo a day and the other is a self portrait a day. both are to log a day in your life over the course of a year while making sure that pick up your camera every day and in the process, improve your skill....

i'm going to do a mixture of the two. i take photos every day no matter what... they just don't all end up here. :o)

comment away!!
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hoffalady > July 23 '09   day 374

single

i had planned on spending a lot more time outside today. instead i spent hours "running the numbers" on the new ultra strict 2 year budget for the household. if we really stick to it, we can transfer debt free. it's not going to be easy at all. we're very loose with the spending. very. it's a realistic plan and a worthwhile goal. i'm sure it's not gonna be easy but we're going to do it.

i ran outside after dinner. the sun was making his crawl towards the horizon. i could literally see my time/shooting opportunities slipping away with him. i went and bothered my neighbors dogs, but they were too excited about me being on the outside of the fence for once. barking and running around like crazy. no shot there.

back to my yard. boring. boring. and more boring. the sunflowers and vinca have taken over my rose bed. both sprouted up without my knowledge. i really didn't want to shoot anything green, but my options today were limited. the single water droplet caught me eye.

hope you've had a good day. :0)
hoffalady > July 22 '09   day 373

silhouette

another day of stormy skies. tho today they didn't amount to any real rainfall. the boys ran errands with me. i stopped at our new doctors office to pick up paperwork. you know all those forms they make you fill out while you're waiting? well filling out 3 sets at once always leaves me flustered. plus i always end up leaving something out! so i figured i'd avoid the annoyance that accompanies all that and fill 'em all out before hand. the reseptionist practacally called me a saint for wanting to do it all before hand.

i'm so happy that the hummingbirds have discovered our feeder. it took a while to get the sparrows, mockingbirds, finches and cardinals to the seed and suet feeders. so i knew it would be a bit before the hummingbirds showed up. since they have only been eatting from the feeder for a few days, i wanted to give 'em a lil more time to feel comfortable. so thus far i'm shooting from inside. (i gotta clean that window!!) 

the light was terrible! the grey sky just made it worse. i was shocked at how dramatic this shot came out when i converted it to black and white! definately my favorite of the bunch. tho this shot was so cute! i love their lil curious faces.

(oh and i know my last few dailies have been pretty devoid of color. hopefully the sun will make an appearance tomorrow and this will change!)
hoffalady > July 21 '09   day 372

watcher

thunder storms kept me inside today. i wanted to do some lightening shots. it's been forever since i've done 'em but the rain was coming from every which way. being out on the porch was not an option and the windows were taking a beating. nothing around the house really sparked anything creative. 

Stevie is a brave pup. she knows that a lil flash and crash aren't anything to be afraid of. she laid there by the front door for hours. Brady on the other hand.... when i laid down on the floor behind her to get this shot, Brady laid down on my legs! that dog is the biggest wuss in the world! as soon as the rain starts, he's right there at my feet- all 100lbs of jello. geez.

i thought about shooting the boys but they were too busy w/ Vernando who has just returned home from his summer visit to his dad. the hubby is still working on his LDO package but he took his math final this morning. yay for a 3 week break from college!
hoffalady > July 20 '09   day 371

camped

T has been camping out in the backyard every nite since last Friday because the weather has been so great. he's loving it! i wanted to get a better shot of him all snuggled in but didn't want to wake him..... and nothing else i shot today looked better. ha! 

thanks for all the well wishes yesterday. i'm feeling better and need to remember that an empty stomach and pain meds do not go great together!
hoffalady > July 19 '09   day 370

nauseous

i should know better. taking pain meds on an empty stomach lead to nothing but a miserable evening.

blah.
hoffalady > July 18 '09   day 369

denied

today was a whole day w/ nothing that i absolutely had to do! 

the hubby suggested that we take a drive. a coworker of him told him about a lake nearby that we haven't been to yet. typically, i'm a lil anal retentive about directions because i really hate getting lost. this time i just went with the flow. turns out we didn't find the lake. but the weather was BEAUTIFUL and it was a nice drive. 

when we realized how close we'd drive to the Mississippi River, we started heading towards it. i figured at the very least, i shoot the muddy flow. this shot greeted us at the end of the road. figures, right?

it wasn't until we were on our street that it hit me. we'd been driving for 2 hours! 

when i walked in the house, i was not happy. Brady had pulled up and destroyed two of my potted plants. i was so angry with him. i tossed his 100lb butt out back and cleaned up the living room. it's so strange because he's never done anything like that! he's a big dork but he's pretty well behaved. i wonder if it's not this beautiful weather that's making him frisky and being locked in the house, alone (Stevie would have no part of his shenanigans!) for 2 hours didn't help. who knows. 

btw, i shot this from the car while flippin a U. i did straighten it but ended up not liking the look. weird, huh? :0)
hoffalady > July 17 '09   day 368

unwinding

what an absolutely beautiful day today! it only reached 83* and the humidity was so low it was like being back home!! i turned off the AC and opened all the windows!! it's supposed to drop into the 60's tonite too!! omg! heavenly!!

the only hiccup in the day was the boys! sheesh those two! this time it was fighting in the pool which earned them both being sent to their rooms and me swimming alone. 

i'm rereading Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. just reading the first few pages i'm reminded of how much was left out of the last movie. i know they have to make "creative" changes to enable to flow of the movie and keep it within a reasonable runtime but still....

i really wanted to shoot the hubby when he got home for work this evening but he's had a really rough week and just wanted to relax. so after dinner, we all took a lil swim and then it was a beer and our beloved Red Sox. i even let him choose today's photo. that's love for ya. :0)
hoffalady > July 16 '09    day 367

alien

school needs to start right now! not in another 3 weeks!! this morning T & Q got into a fight. it was over the most ridiculous thing, leaving the shampoo bottle in the same place after each use!!! i really try to stay out of their fights if it's just bickering because they usually work them out with little drama. not in this case. they were both in the bathroom. T had just gotten out of the shower and Q was getting in. i stood at the door and listened when the yelling started. everything was okay until Q crossed the line with "i wish you weren't my brother!"

that was it for me. time to step in. i know he said it in the midst of a fight and was all worked up and emotional but stuff like that cuts me deep. i am the oldest of 5 kids, the only girl w/ 4 brothers. the two oldest ones Chris (who moved to Northern CA) and Mike are only 2.5 years apart. they fought terribly when we were growing up and it went unchecked for the most part. it ended up putting a huge strain on their relationship when they got into their late teens and early 20's. i really don't want that to happen to my sons. 

needless to say, Q is now grounded for the rest of the week from everything, except playing outside and being in the pool. tho i don't know if it's a punishment for him or me as he's now asking every 5 minutes if he can help me or do something with me.......

he did however help me spot this guy on the sunflowers growing in the rose bed. he was a bit sketchy and i had a hard time getting his entire body in sharp focus with me macro. so i tried to sharpen him up in LR. does he look overworked?
hoffalady > July 15 '09  day 366

net

first of all WOW! thanks for all the nice comments and encouragement on completing year 1 in the dailies!

and omg DOUBLE WOW! it's been a loooooooooooooong time since i've had a photo in the top spot and i don't think it's ever hung on to it all day long. thanks guys!

my day was the usual domestic loverliness- laundry, vacuuming and child rearing. while watering my lil veggie box the droplets of water on the netting caught my eye. nothing funnier than me funning around my in bathing suit w/ my camera trying to get the best angle. thankfully the boys are used to my need to get the shot... everyone else looks at me like i am crazy!

lu is getting anxious about the surgery. so i am trying my best to reassure/distract her. it's since i'm so far away but i keep reminding her that i'll be there to take care of/abuse her. anything to make her laugh, including emailing her pictures of ugly babies. (inside joke. sorry.)

and i'm jumping into year 2 with both feet.....
hoffalady > July 14 '09

day 365

me

today marks the completion of my first year on the dailies. 
 
i've spent a lot of time today thinking about what this 365 project has meant to me, what i've gotten out of it and what i will carry on with me.....
 
for me this "project" started out as one thing and morphed into a completely different one. i started it with the intent to get into the practice of shooting every day and hopefully learn something along the way, but it quickly became my photo blog. it enabled me to share not only my photos but a piece of me as a person. it also gave me a greater appreciation of just how personal my photos are to me. 
 
i've learned that nothing in the entire world gives me more satisfaction that capturing a laugh, pure emotion, a personality or love. while i still prefer to keep it simple and unprocessed, playing w/ a shot or too can be fun too.
 
i take my photography seriously but really try not to take myself all that seriously. i've come across a few people this year who took it all waaaaaaaaaaaay too seriously and, for me, took so much joy out of the process.
 
i've met some really great people here, who have only enriched this experience for me. i appreciate you.
 
everyone has room to grown and i think i know a few ways i want to push myself. i'm going to work on those in Year 2.
 
on a side note is it gross that i used a pot of two day old coffee to make an iced coffee for myself? just checking....

oh and John, on day 80 something you asked how long i could keep up my one word titles. i'm still going.... :0)
hoffalady > July 13 '09
 
day 364
 
IDed
 
i should have just pulled the covers up over my head when the alarm went off this morning. it had all the makings of a crap day. i woke up in an empty bed. the hubby slept on the couch. (we have an agreement that if either of us can't sleep, we sleep on the couch to prevent keeping the other awake. it's mostly for my benefit because i am CRANKY when i don't sleep well.) 
 
i hopped on the scale and i think i heard it go "OOOPH!". i guess that is better than "a lil warning next time fatty!". not looking so promising....
 
then it was off the dentist to get a filling replaced. not only did it leave me uber sore but my dentist, bless her heart, pinched the inside of my lower lip in three places leaving me bleeding. then i heard my sweet hygienist say "oh no". not very reassuring. turns out my filling needed more reconstruction an any of us knew. serious ouch. 
 
drive all the way back home to pick up the boys. the skies were black. literally. the emergence broadcast come on the radio saying we were having damaging winds, dime sized hail and "cloud to ground lightening". exciting, no?
 
today they were getting their first military ID cards. you would have thought i was feeding them ice cream for breakfast! they were so excited. it was actually a pleasant experience. we had an appointment and the guy working there was actually nice. that's a rarity at PSD let me tell you!
 
by the time we got home, we had light sprinkles and i was sure my jaw was going to drop off. i soothed myself w/ a pan of brownies. (an exaggeration but you get my point.) then thinking i was not making the right choice (duh!), i worked out. the storm ended up being a lil sprinkling. so hopped in the pool with the boys. a half hour dragging them around has to burn a couple more calories, right?
 
then this afternoon, something great happened. my brother (the one who moved) called me. we spoke for about a half hour and i was able to tell him how i felt about what had gone on. i don't think there was any apology but he listened and it made me feel better to know he was listening. i told him how much i hated the distance that has done nothing but grow between us and he said he's going to make sure he makes an effort to keep in better contact. amazing what a lil phone call will do, huh?
hoffalady > July 12 '09

day 363

kitty

it wasn't an entirely lazy weekend. i did accomplish something... my grocery shopping! :0) 

oh and the boys (all 3 of 'em) voted yesterday "the best food day ever". i think it's mostly because of the brunch i made- french toast w/ strawberries, whipped cream and syrup, scrambled eggs and bacon. i don't make a big breakfast often but when i do, the boys always act like they've hit the lottery!

tomorrow it's back to reality tho. i really haven't been consistent w/ my eating or exercise. it seems like i'm only ever doing one and not both. i've got 33 days until my trip up to Boston and i need to be solidly in the groove by then.

btw, thanks for the comments on yesterday toad shot. T was very pleased with himself. lil bugger.

today's shot is a souvenir the hubby brought back from his trip to Japan a few months ago. i *heart* hello kitty and this charm hangs on my purse/camera bag.
hoffalady > July 11 '09

day 362

hostage

T found this guy in the yard this morning and even tho he peed in T's hand (twice) he insisted that George make my daily. the things i do for that boy. 

the hubby had work (homework and Navy stuff) to do today so we just hung out. nothing too fantastical. finished off the rest of the fireworks tonite too. not a bad Saturday at all. :0)
hoffalady > July 10 '09

day 361

gnarled

nothing too interesting today. hung out with my boys during the day. had a quiet swim with the hubby when he can home from work. made kick ass rib eyes, baked potatoes w/ the works and orgainic rosemary & garlic sour dough bread fir dinner. in bed by 9:30 even.

Christine did crack me up on Facebook tho. i had tears running down my face reading (and replying) to that. funny stuff.

oh and James, you're right. sending my tweaked photos to SM via LR is easy once you've got it all set up. :0)
hoffalady > July 9 '09

day 360

limed

nothing screams summer like a ice cold beer on a wickedly hot day!

i had the hardest time trying to upload this photo. it kept timing out when i tried it my usual (simple) way. so i just spent the last hour getting the LR plugin and getting that all set up. so confusing. ah well at least it's up.

hope you had a great Thursday!
July 23 '09 day 374

single

i had planned on spending a lot more time outside today. instead i spent hours "running the numbers" on the new ultra strict 2 year budget for the household. if we really stick to it, we can transfer debt free. it's not going to be easy at all. we're very loose with the spending. very. it's a realistic plan and a worthwhile goal. i'm sure it's not gonna be easy but we're going to do it.

i ran outside after dinner. the sun was making his crawl towards the horizon. i could literally see my time/shooting opportunities slipping away with him. i went and bothered my neighbors dogs, but they were too excited about me being on the outside of the fence for once. barking and running around like crazy. no shot there.

back to my yard. boring. boring. and more boring. the sunflowers and vinca have taken over my rose bed. both sprouted up without my knowledge. i really didn't want to shoot anything green, but my options today were limited. the single water droplet caught me eye.

hope you've had a good day. :0)
hoffalady > July 23 '09   day 374

single

i had planned on spending a lot more time outside today. instead i spent hours "running the numbers" on the new ultra strict 2 year budget for the household. if we really stick to it, we can transfer debt free. it's not going to be easy at all. we're very loose with the spending. very. it's a realistic plan and a worthwhile goal. i'm sure it's not gonna be easy but we're going to do it.

i ran outside after dinner. the sun was making his crawl towards the horizon. i could literally see my time/shooting opportunities slipping away with him. i went and bothered my neighbors dogs, but they were too excited about me being on the outside of the fence for once. barking and running around like crazy. no shot there.

back to my yard. boring. boring. and more boring. the sunflowers and vinca have taken over my rose bed. both sprouted up without my knowledge. i really didn't want to shoot anything green, but my options today were limited. the single water droplet caught me eye.

hope you've had a good day. :0)
July 23 '09 day 374

single

i had planned on spending a lot more time outside today. instead i spent hours "running the numbers" on the new ultra strict 2 year budget for the household. if we really stick to it, we can transfer debt free. it's not going to be easy at all. we're very loose with the spending. very. it's a realistic plan and a worthwhile goal. i'm sure it's not gonna be easy but we're going to do it.

i ran outside after dinner. the sun was making his crawl towards the horizon. i could literally see my time/shooting opportunities slipping away with him. i went and bothered my neighbors dogs, but they were too excited about me being on the outside of the fence for once. barking and running around like crazy. no shot there.

back to my yard. boring. boring. and more boring. the sunflowers and vinca have taken over my rose bed. both sprouted up without my knowledge. i really didn't want to shoot anything green, but my options today were limited. the single water droplet caught me eye.

hope you've had a good day. :0)
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