Day 17/ 365: Remnants of Fall

I was doing today's photowalk with the intention to find some "leftover" Autumn. Wasn't it nice of these three leaves to just to sit there and wait for me like that??!!

I want to thank all of you for missing lil' ol' me *blushing*. I didn't stop doing the project but had misplaced my camera cord and didn't have a backup to use to upload my pictures and I couldn't dare post the blog without the pictures! So I would come on and blog, save the draft, and search for my cord. Sooooo glad that I found it today and thanks to all of you for your patience. As you can see, nature was talking to me this past week. I never knew that I enjoyed photographing nature so much until I started this project.

What I love about this photograph: The colors and shine. SOOC (I only added my logo)!
Technical Stuff: Nikon D40; 55.0mm; 1/60s; f/5.6; ISO 400

Day 16/365: School Colors

This tree/bush (don't know which it is and don't know the name) sits in my grandmother's front yard. It caught my eye because of it's colors. Whenever I see green and "gold" together, I always think of my middle school. Woo-hoooooo! GOOO TIGERS :)

What I love about this photograph: Love how the colors seem to complement each other perfectly and how the waxy feel of the leaves can be seen in the photograph. SOOC (I only added my logo)
Technical Stuff: Nikon D40; 26.0mm; 1/60s; f/4.2; ISO 360

Day 10/365: Individuality

This tree sits in my grandmother's side yard and I loved how serene and proud  it looked amongst the other trees
  
What I love about this photograph: Even though this tree is surrounded by trees with green leaves, brown leaves, or no leaves at all, it unabashedly holds onto it's yellow leaves.

Technical Stuff: Nikon D40; 18.0mm; 1/50s; f/3.5; ISO 400

8/365: Bokeh Anyone?

So this is my first true attempt at bokeh. Sure I've taken some pictures that ended up with bokeh in them, but I wasn't trying to achieve bokeh. I just found out, this week, what bokeh actually is...and I love it. And am completely obsessed with it! *peeping through its window saying, "bokeh, i seeeeeee, you"* I've decided to end every week (Thursday) with a bokeh image...yeah, yeah, yeah, I know I'm a day off, but I just had this wonderfully, brillant, bokeh idea...gimme a break, geesh.

What type of bokeh do you feel I achieved?:

1. good?
2. bad?
3. average?
4.  immpecable?
5. you call that bokeh? sam, you wouldn't know bokeh if it slapped you in the face!

Any help/advice that you all can give me on this topic would be greatly appreciated. I wish for, Thursday, Dec. 31st, 2010's bokeh to be sooooooo good that I need a cigarette 2 cigarettes afterwards :)

What I love about this photograph: It's bokeh. Come on, smile and wave at the bokeh!
Technical Stuff: Nikon D40; 55.0mm; 1/200s; f/7.1; ISO 200