Techie Mommy

Been trying to get an inspiration for today's photo all night. A colleague gave me a good idea of taking a photo of the Pizza oven after we had after work drinks at the Italian place but I wanted to get moving and be at the train station. So, now I'm in one of those nights where I am stuck trying to find inspiration inside the bedroom. Tonight's subject came from my end table lamp shade. I've actually seen this in the past and remembered tonight that I've been looking for a web to take pictures of. This one under one of the lamp shades looked interesting. What do you think? I liked this one because of the detail on the web. It's not silky and perfect, but feels like one of those halloween fake ones. LOL.

I have this picture in my head that I've been trying to take. I've seen other pictures of it but they don't really explain their setup or their equipment, so all I can do is experiment. For all I know, I may not even have the right equipment for it. Anyways, this morning, with the light coating of snow flurries that were on the car, I thought I may have the opportunity. I think it's close to what I want, but it's not quite there. I wanted a photo that would show the individual snowflakes in detail. Not all of it, but at least some of it (at least 1!). However, this is the closest that I got to what I wanted. The others were really just either a chunk of ice, or a blob of white :) Maybe next time, it will be better. Meanwhile, I also got one of those rare moments where my 3 angels posed together for a photo. Y is even smiling! X is not in her best smile, and Z has his deer in a headlights look -- but this photo is preciously rare :)

Ending this week with some really good news. I am also proud of having made it this far into this project! It's been almost a month, with a few close calls including today. Got home pretty late because I hung out with team mates after work. By the time I had late dinner, and gave the girls a bath and into their PJs, it's 11:30pm and still no picture of the day! We were all already in the bedroom so I've been trying to improvise and find something interesting. I liked the patterns of this and actually liked the way the light made it look soft and glowy. This photo is in its original composition, no cropping whatsoever. I liked it as it is! :) I won't tell what it is though I'm sure it will be obvious.

After 3 nights of partying (hee), it was back to work and back to the grind. Also meant back to finding subjects for this project. I have 4 days photo backlog and Y goes to school/day care next week while I am out of town. Yaiks! That means I have this week left to make sure she gets into a good habit of sleeping early. So, for today's photo, I turn to the residents of our aquarium. We used to have a salt water tank, which crashed. Nowadays, the tank holds fresh water fish and biggest of which is this one.

20 days into the year, and three grown ups in the household has already been sick. I was trying to find things to photograph in the house while blogging about myself so I figured this is a good subject. Both nanay and hubby had to go to urgent/convenient care this week - and both got prescription medicines. They say you always need to group things in threes and I had one too from my sore throat/lost voice from the beginning of the year so that completes my subjects. The good news is, nanay is finally better and hubby is on preventative medication. The kids have nothing (cross fingers), and hopefully continue to do so because we have Y's birthday party on Saturday! I've been noticing that on most days (good days), I post 2 photos. Hopefully one that is a commentary on what my day is like, and another that is more artistic or photography related. I think I will continue in that mode. At the end of 365 days, I might have 500 pictures! Today's artistic picture is...

I've been trying to find bugs in the house to photograph lately and I just can't find one. Tonight, while I was in the basement with the girls, they screamed "Spider! Mommy!". So yeah, apparently, there are a couple of house spiders in the basement - but they're really too small, thin, and pale to take pictures of. But, beggars can't be choosers - so, I grabbed my gear, dropped a comforter on the floor and tried to get to it's level. The tripod was too high, so I have to do this hand held. There isn't a lot of light, so, with a macro lens and hand held, I had to up the ISO to make it manageable. This bug photography again is not simple, its not like, you can grab them and pose them your way so you can get a clear view of its eye. For the most part, they crawl away, and show me their ass. I found another one in the ceiling, and that was too high up that again, the tripod is useless. Anyways, after a couple of tries, and a lot of discarded pho...

Tonight is all about water droplets! With my old Nikkor 105mm f2.8 Micro lens, I experimented on doing some macro shots and boy, oh boy, this is not easy at all! I started with some static droplets using a dropper on different backgrounds - and I tried to find a way on how to position an object so it will reflect on the droplet. I wish I had some flowers at home, but alas! no fresh (or plastic) flowers. Threw away lots of photos, and this is probably the best one I got on this subject tonight. So after trying that, I moved on to doing high speed photos still on water droplets. I got a couple of decent ones where the droplet was in focus and has good colors reflecting on them. This is my favorite though.