12/1 to 12/7

Monday December 1:
My Kitchen

I cook dinner most every night basically because I cook when I get bored. This night was sweet curry turkey (needed to get rid of left over thanksgiving!) with minute brown rice. This just shows how hectic the kitchen can be. I also liked the repetition of circles and I never noticed how man things in a kitchen environment are round, until today.

Tuesday December 2:
My Basement

My brother was setting up the drum set in the basement.I love this pedal and just thought it would be a cool angle to view it from. I think I will try to get a more in focus shot some other time by using liveview.























Wednesday December 3:
CBS Broadcast

I LOVE RANKIN BASS CHRISTMAS SPECIALS! I hadn't done anything photographic all day long and I decided that watching Rudolph kick off the Rankin Bass holiday special season wasn't photographic either... or was it? So I thought I would take my 14mm and try to distort what you were seeing as much as possible. I had several favorites but I thought this one illustrated the technique the best and filled the frame the most.








Thursday December 4:
The Edge Teen Center
I have been teaching Winona how to drum so that someday she can become the drummer for the teen band. I made her play a song that she had never played before for the first time Thursday night. She was incredibly nervous so I went up there to keep her company and to keep a beat for her. Of course I had to take advantage of an angle that you normally don't get. I liked that this showed motion in drumming that isn't too blurry so that you can still see the subject. Also I think the abstraction keeps the focus on the main subject: the drumming.














Friday December 5:
Simworld/my bed room

I had realized around midnight that I hadn't taken a photo of the day yet. I was playing the Sims so I decided screenshot of me yelling at Sim Amanda to do things right.










Saturday December 6:
My driveway

Well I needed to clean the foot and half of snow off of my car that had accumulated over the past 3 days (it was all in vain, 6 inches was on it in the morning). I will admit that photographing yourself with a D3, while cleaning snow off your car, and not having any feeling left in your fingers is probably been one of the more difficult things that I have done. I liked this one because of the action of the brush. Also the color of the sky (that way because of the storms we have been having, coupled with the train yard back there... it was really that color) and the presence of a sodium vapor light near my vehicle, made for some interesting color casts.

Sunday December 7:
Honeyville Baptist church in a snow storm

This is kind of just a teaser trailer for a project I will be working on this weekend. My church is doing the Christmas story play with a comedically corny twist. I decided to document the rehearsal and production, as well as take some audio and make a nice little multimedia package about it and how it teaches about Christmas.

I loved this shot when I saw it. I was kind of just one in a quick series of fired off frames. But the expressions and gestures that the boys have during a 3 wise men rehearsal were just too funny. This shot gives me hope for a pretty decent little piece I could put together.