Day 40 - the ending of an era.....

While cleaning out the Verizon Wireless kiosk the other day I decide since another big box store is biting the dust I'd get a picture to memorialize it. It is amazing what has happened to the economy in the past couple years and the changes that is has affected on both businesses and the individual. Perhaps the U.S. will become less of a wasteful society after our recovery begins and we will realized the value of something and be less materialistic. One can hope anyways...

Again I opted for the close up shot. I had another that included the whole sign but also some of the sky and I didn't really like it because of that. If you look closely you can see the snowflakes falling as it was snowing when I snapped this shot.

...and the turning of a page....

Day 30 - karma karma karma karma karma chamelon....

Ok there is some blue in there too , but I like the song... I was sitting in the computer room and I noticed the Galileo thermometer there and thought such nice colors I bet it would make a good picture. In case you don't know how to read a thermometer like this, you read the # on the lowest floating bulb in the tube and that is your temperature, it only has a range from 64-80 though so it's only good for an an average home. It's not very precise either as it is in 4 degree increments as well.

I did position the thermometer in front of an open window get get the focus on the tube itself and have the blurred blackground. I really love the way the colors came out in this shot, very clear, crisp and the thermomenter centered nicely in the picture. You can really read everything easily as well. I'm waiting for the day now where all those bulbs are down the bottom and it says 80 again, that would be nice right about now It's cold out there.

Red gold and green, red gold and greeeeeeeen.....
(and blue) :)

Day 11 - it's all in the lights...

Okay, I was out and about and took a few pictures here and there, but nothing seemed great, they seemed forced. This picture was taken inside of an Applebees. I really liked the colors of the lampshades and tried to line up the lights down the row for the shot, without much success.

So to avoid having yet another food shot in my photoblog so soon, I opted for this.

I don't like the shot that much due to the fact that I couldn't get it centered . Of course I can do after shot editing and put the picture however I want to, yet these are the original, unaltered shots. I do especially like the vibrant red of the lamp shade however and playing with the Shutter Speed I was able to capture the mood and lighting without to much blur or grain. So in that aspect I'm happy with it.

Let's do lunch...