30 Day Photography Challenge - Day 30

Happy Halloween, Everyone!

I'm sure it's no surprise that orange day was going to be a pumpkin. I have to admit tho, I like the gray pumpkin better than the traditional orange ones. It's soooo Halloween!

This is it for my 30 day photography challenge. I did have fun and it was good getting back into it. Thank you to the people who took the time to leave me a comment. It's appreciated :)

You probably noticed I missed Sunday (long exposure day). The truth is, I just didn't feel like doing this one. I had planned on going to Mt. Soledad and shooting the east side that looks down on the freeway. That would have been cool for long exposure....but oh well. So it's really been a 29 day photography challenge!





Self-portrait ***** What I wore today
Something green ***** Someone I love
Something new ***** Technology
Something I made ***** Something fun
Fruit ***** From a distance
Flowers ***** My shoes
What I ate ***** In my bag
Pretty pattern ***** Trees
Breakfast ***** Clouds
Sunflare ***** Bokeh
Something orange ***** In motion
Long exposure *****Purchased
Animal ***** Black and white
From a low angle ***** From a high angle
After dark ***** Close-up

30 Day Photography Challenge - Day 28

From a high angle day. A display of colorful vases at Crate & Barrel. Had to be quick about it ~ they get after you if you take pictures in there!



Self-portrait ***** What I wore today
Something green ***** Someone I love
Something new ***** Technology
Something I made ***** Something fun
Fruit ***** From a distance
Flowers ***** My shoes
What I ate ***** In my bag
Pretty pattern ***** Trees
Breakfast ***** Clouds
Sunflare ***** Bokeh
Something orange ***** In motion
Long exposure ***** Purchased
Animal ***** Black and white
From a low angle ***** From a high angle
After dark ***** Close-up

30 Day Photography Challenge - Day 27

It's from a low angle. Can't get much lower than the tile floor!



Self-portrait ***** What I wore today
Something green ***** Someone I love
Something new ***** Technology
Something I made ***** Something fun
Fruit ***** From a distance
Flowers ***** My shoes
What I ate ***** In my bag
Pretty pattern ***** Trees
Breakfast ***** Clouds
Sunflare ***** Bokeh
Something orange ***** In motion
Long exposure ***** Purchased
Animal ***** Black and white
From a low angle ***** From a high angle
After dark ***** Close-up

30 Day Photography Challenge - Day 26

After dark day! Another Vegas photo ~ had to use this one. It was taken from our hotel room at the Bellagio. We had the most awesome views from the living room area and the bathroom. The bathroom was crazy big...like the size of my kitchen! But I digress. The water show happens every 15 minutes so I had lots of chances to get pictures of it. Best viewed large.



Self-portrait ***** What I wore today
Something green ***** Someone I love
Something new ***** Technology
Something I made ***** Something fun
Fruit ***** From a distance
Flowers ***** My shoes
What I ate ***** In my bag
Pretty pattern ***** Trees
Breakfast ***** Clouds
Sunflare ***** Bokeh
Something orange ***** In motion
Long exposure ***** Purchased
Animal ***** Black and white
From a low angle ***** From a high angle
After dark ***** Close-up

30 Day Photography Challenge - Day 25

I love bokeh photos. Love. So beautiful. I probably like it so much because it's dreamy and looks like a fantasy. It's the little girl in me I guess :) Here you see purple glitter...well...glittering. View it large for best effect.

For those of you who don't know what bokeh is, here is a good explanation:
In photography, bokeh is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image, or the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light.



Self-portrait ***** What I wore today
Something green ***** Someone I love
Something new ***** Technology
Something I made ***** Something fun
Fruit ***** From a distance
Flowers ***** My shoes
What I ate ***** In my bag
Pretty pattern ***** Trees
Breakfast ***** Clouds
Sunflare ***** Bokeh
Something orange ***** In motion
Long exposure ***** Purchased
Animal ***** Black and white
From a low angle ***** From a high angle
After dark ***** Close-up

30 Day Photography Challenge - Day 24

We've reached something fun day! I could not resist posting these pics. They are the shoes that were in the window at the Christian Louboutin store in Vegas. Of the two, I favor the red ones the most. They make me *swoon*.

When I saw these, I was in love. How could you not be!? They are modern day ruby slippers! If they did a remake of the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy would need to wear these ruby platforms. She'd just have to. I'd love to wear them! So so pretty. But at a cool $1,700.00, they are a few bucks out of my price range.



Then we have the mermaid shoe (that's what I've named them). It's impossible to tell from the photo, but they are VERY sparkly. Encrusted with crystals. Sparkly. When you're walking past this window display, you have to look. There is no way that sparkle isn't going to turn everyones head. Curious about the price tag? They are yours for just $3,295.00. *faints*



Self-portrait ***** What I wore today
Something green ***** Someone I love
Something new ***** Technology
Something I made ***** Something fun
Fruit ***** From a distance
Flowers ***** My shoes
What I ate ***** In my bag
Pretty pattern ***** Trees
Breakfast ***** Clouds
Sunflare ***** Bokeh
Something orange ***** In motion
Long exposure ***** Purchased
Animal ***** Black and white
From a low angle ***** From a high angle
After dark ***** Close-up

30 Day Photography Challenge - Day 23

It's something new day!

This is the necklace Greg got me for our anniversary :)



Self-portrait ***** What I wore today
Something green ***** Someone I love
Something new ***** Technology
Something I made ***** Something fun
Fruit ***** From a distance
Flowers ***** My shoes
What I ate ***** In my bag
Pretty pattern ***** Trees
Breakfast ***** Clouds
Sunflare ***** Bokeh
Something orange ***** In motion
Long exposure ***** Purchased
Animal ***** Black and white
From a low angle ***** From a high angle
After dark ***** Close-up

30 Day Photography Challenge - Day 22

Today is something I made day.

For our anniversary I made Greg this card. If you're following me on Twitter you know that all the cards I'm making this year are owl cards. I had to come up with something unique and special. I cut the owls/branches out using my Cricut. I cut the tree trunk by hand. The owls are not actually supposed to be silhouette style but I used the shadow feature which cuts a solid image and is usually used as a base but it worked out well for a silhouette. I wrapped the owls with red thread and then twisted it between then and formed a heart. I thought this was going to be hard to do, but it was actually very easy. The sky was done on white card stock by sponging blue and gray inks and same for the moon in yellow and orange. I used a white gel pen to make stars. There's a line right across the middle of the photo and I'm not sure what it's from. Maybe from the reflection on the table. On the inside it says "owl love you forever" :)



Self-portrait ***** What I wore today
Something green ***** Someone I love
Something new ***** Technology
Something I made ***** Something fun
Fruit ***** From a distance
Flowers ***** My shoes
What I ate ***** In my bag
Pretty pattern ***** Trees
Breakfast ***** Clouds
Sunflare ***** Bokeh
Something orange ***** In motion
Long exposure ***** Purchased
Animal ***** Black and white
From a low angle ***** From a high angle
After dark ***** Close-up

30 Day Photography Challenge - Day 21

What I ate day!

While in Vegas we did a lot of celebrating. It was our 20th wedding anniversary on 10/19 and my birthday on 10/20. Two of the things on my 101 things list were to take Greg to a Bobby Flay restaurant and to go to Spago for my birthday. It was great to be able to cross both those things off my list. When trying to figure out what picture I'd post, I couldn't choose just one. So here are some memorable dining moments :)

First photo is the cake Greg ordered and surprised me with. He had it delivered to our room. SOOO sweet of him! It was chocolate with crushed praline filling and butter cream frosting. Isn't it beautiful?



Second is the salad we had at Spago. Very yummy. Sadly, I totally forgot to take a picture of my crab and scallops dinner :-/



Thrid is the ice cream we got for dessert at Spago. We were so full that having cake would have been too much. The ice cream didn't disappoint tho. One of them is brown sugar ice cream. I honestly didn't know if that was going to be good or not because it sounds strange to me. But it was so good! I'd have it again if I ever got the chance. And they wrote happy birthday on the plate for me :)



The foruth picture is my dinner at Mesa Grill. I got the grilled tiger shrimp tacos. Oh. My. These are by far the best seafood tacos I have ever had. They were smokey but not too much. So delicious. They also bring a basket of muffins and bread to the table so I tried a blue corn chile muffin. Awesome!



The fifth photo is Greg's dinner at Mesa Grill. He had the seared sea scallop salad. This was also really delicious and very filling. The scallops were perfectly seared and so tender. They look charred to death in the photo, but they really were perfectly done.



All in all, we had some wonderful meals!

Self-portrait ***** What I wore today
Something green ***** Someone I love
Something new ***** Technology
Something I made ***** Something fun
Fruit ***** From a distance
Flowers ***** My shoes
What I ate ***** In my bag
Pretty pattern ***** Trees
Breakfast ***** Clouds
Sunflare ***** Bokeh
Something orange ***** In motion
Long exposure ***** Purchased
Animal ***** Black and white
From a low angle ***** From a high angle
After dark ***** Close-up

30 Day Photography Challenge - Day 20

Flower day! This is the ceiling in the lobby of the Bellagio. I'm positive it's highly photographed, but I can tell you no picture can do it justice. You have to see it in person to really see how beautiful and impressive it is. All the "flowers" are made of blown glass and are gigantic. They are held up there on iron rods that look like stems. Some have patterns, some just solid colors and some are opaque. I can't even imagine what a nightmare it was to construct that whole thing but it's pretty!

Self-portrait ***** What I wore today
Something green ***** Someone I love
Something new ***** Technology
Something I made ***** Something fun
Fruit ***** From a distance
Flowers ***** My shoes
What I ate ***** In my bag
Pretty pattern ***** Trees
Breakfast ***** Clouds
Sunflare ***** Bokeh
Something orange ***** In motion
Long exposure ***** Purchased
Animal ***** Black and white
From a low angle ***** From a high angle
After dark ***** Close-up

30 Day Photography Challenge - Day 19

Today I turned 44. Has to be self-portrait day. Ugh!!



Self-portrait ***** What I wore today
Something green ***** Someone I love
Something new ***** Technology
Something I made ***** Something fun
Fruit ***** From a distance
Flowers ***** My shoes
What I ate ***** In my bag
Pretty pattern ***** Trees
Breakfast ***** Clouds
Sunflare ***** Bokeh
Something orange ***** In motion
Long exposure ***** Purchased
Animal ***** Black and white
From a low angle ***** From a high angle
After dark ***** Close-up