Twelve

The sun is out and the daffodils are in full bloom!  This weekend I didn't have to travel far to find a beautiful field full of daffodils.  I wish I could have picked them all, but that seemed greedy.  A handful was plenty to take home and enjoy the sweet smell and sunny color indoors. 

 

Eleven

I had to be in Philadelphia, PA, this week for work and wanted to shoot some photos while I was there for the 52 week project.  All over Philly, I set up shots with nothing spectacular turning up, mainly because I didn't have a tripod.  When I got home and searched through the photos for something to use, this hit me -- it looks like a typical vacation photo -- heads cut off, random people in the background, etc.  So, I gave it a 1960's hue and called it a week.  The funniest thing about the whole shot was how I was posing, setting up the camera on a window ledge, and a woman asks me in a very irritated voice to move over so she could get a shot of the crack!  I'll laugh every time I see this picture!

Ten

I almost let the week slip by without a picture this week.  As I was walking across campus, I saw a bench in beautiful light, sat down and shot a photo using the garbage can as a tripod.  I love the cast of light in this one and especially the way it turned out in black and white.  Sometimes, no plan is a good plan.

Nine

With Christye and Tiffany at No Mistake Plantation in Satartia, Mississippi.  Enough said.

Eight

 

Over the weekend, I rode up to Gainesville, Missouri, to meet my good friends Susannah Alms and her mom Janet Taber.  Janet helped put together an awesome quilt show for the new Historium on the Gainesville square.  As I expected, the quilts were phenomenal - all friendship quilts, each with a very unique story.  I got some great photos for my blog Miles to Go where I plan to tell that story!  After a great lunch on the square, Susannah and I hit the back-roads to shoot photos for week 8.  It was awesome having her tag along to help me pick locations and keep the tripod loaded and ready!  These are some of the shots we took, but my favorites were of her precious daughter and a brand new baby calf we fed with a bottle.  Those are for another blog story too!  Thank you to Sus and Janet for a wonderful time and for some great photos and memories.

 

Seven

This little photo project is getting harder and harder.  Learning about light has been the most challenging aspect of this lesson for me so far, but I am also trying to move from auto-focus to manual, and that offers a whole new series of challenges.  I rode down to Norfork this weekend to shoot these pictures and will hopefully go there again before this 52 week challenge is over.  There is an abundance of beauty there along the White River and so many interesting old buildings!  My pick this week was taken at Wolf House, a dog- trot built in the 1800's.  It's a beautiful home overlooking the railroad along the White River.  It's a perfect setting for any hobby, and I understand in the summertime, folks gather around the house to pick a little guitar.  I'm coming back this summer to take photos of someone else in this beautiful setting!

 

Six

On Tuesday, just before a big snowstorm came in, I decided to take some photos for Week Six during lunch. Thank goodness I did...we got ten inches of snow the next day!  These were all shot at the Vada Sheid Community Development Center on the campus of ASUMH.  I used a cleaning cart for a tripod.  The light in this building is always great, and the walkway out front makes for a cool background.