Day 31/365: January's Best in Show

Yet another picture on the backroads. I feel this is the perfect picture to end the month of January on because it happens to be my favorite picture of this month. I hope that everyone has enjoyed the first month of our Project 365 as much as I have.

Things I have learned:

1. Bokeh is king!
2. I love nature and wildlife and will pursue more of this type of photography.
3. I can not post every night and will instead post once or twice during the week.
4. I can't take night photos and need lots of practice and advice on this subject.
5. Not every picture is perfect!
6. I love hand-painting/select colorization.
7. Inspiration is everywhere so this Project 365 will be a breeze.
8. Blah, blah, blah...*just checking to see if you guys were reading :)
9. FEBRUARY HERE WE COME!!

What I love about this photograph: How the trees are lined up so perfectly and complement the fence.
Technical Stuff: Nikon D40; 38.0mm; 1/200s; f/7.1; ISO 200

Day 29/365: Pecan Orchard During the Off Season

 This is a photograph of a pecan orchard not too far from my mom's house. The trees always look so sad to me during their off season. I can't wait to photograph it again when they are full of pecans.

What I love about this photograph: The end of the orchard looks like a cave....and we all know what happens in caves...LOL
Technical Stuff: Nikon D40; 40.0mm; 1/125s; f/5.6; ISO 250

Day 27/365: Tractor and Cotton

We found this tractor along the backroads of Grady County, Georgia....between Calvary and Whigham.

I loved the ride along this road and found a lot of things to photograph. I plan to go back again during the week. I also entered this picture in the DP Review Challenge "Farming Life". I'll let you guys know what place it comes in....if it's in the top 25...LOL.

What I love about this photograph: The tractor looks as if it owns the field.

Technical Stuff: Nikon D40; 55.0mm; 1/125s; f/5.6; ISO 200

Day 26/365: Hidden Sunrise

 I took this picture on the way to work this morning. I love how the sun was right outside of the scene and casting a gorgeous light on the clouds and the lake. Unfortunately the picture is blurred because I was driving but I actually love the effect that it made.  It almost made the ugly orange pylon disappear....almost.

What I love about this photograph: The color of the clouds are so...i don't know the word...but only God can create that.
Technical Stuff: Nikon D40; 48.0mm; 1/40; f/5.6; ISO 400

Day 23/365: Stopping by the Woods on a Rainy Day

 I couldn't resist taking this picture...trees, rain, nature...what else is there? :)

What I love about this photograph: The contrast between the wet and dry portions of the trees.
Technical Stuff: Nikon D40; 38.0mm; 1/60s; f/5.0; ISO 400

Day 19/365: Foggy Reflection

I don't know if I ever told you guys, but my first love is street photography, mainly "shot from the hip". Since the month of January is nearly over, I decided that I had to have at least one street photography picture.  This morning's drive into work was extremely foggy, especially on the long, rural stretch of highway. so needless to say, I was glad when I reached traffic in the city.  As I was sitting in traffic, I looked over and saw that my truck is directly in front of a store window, providing a great scenic photograph. I couldn't pass up the opportunity to snap a quick picture...w/o looking through the viewfinder...hence the term, "shot from the hip". Yep, that's my silhouette in the Jeep.

What I love about this photograph: How the store window frames the photograph!

Technical Stuff: Nikon D40; 24.0mm; 1/60s; f/4.0; ISO 400

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 14/365: Berries and Bokeh

 It's Thursday and I'm attempting bokeh again. Thanks for all of the advice that you guys gave me last week. I am looking forward to buying a new lens in the upcoming months. Until that time, I have to keep playing with my current lens.
This picture is of a Holly tree that my dad planted in the front yard back in the early 80's. I used to want to eat the berries when I was a kid....LOL, good thing that I didn't though. I often overlook this tree but am glad that it caught my idea today...it was a perfect bokeh subject.  

What I love about this photograph: I love how vibrant the red and green looks. SOOC (I only added my logo)
Technical Stuff: Nikon D40; 52.0mm; 1/40s; f/5.6; ISO 400

Day 13/365: Water in Two States

The last week or so, we've been below freezing temps at night and therefore have had to leave the water dripping so the pipes won't freeze. This is a picture of the water dripping from the outside faucet. Overnight, it turned into a nice long icicle. Love it!

What I love about this photograph: Water in the liquid and solid state...living in harmony :)
Technical Stuff: Nikon D40; 55.0mm; 1/60s; f/5.6; ISO 400

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