Sunday Snaphots

I actually took quite a few photographs this week, mostly for the upcoming yearbook.

Nevertheless, I did take a few I can share with you. I’ve taken the liberty of arranging them into a sort of photographic story.

Is there a storm coming?

Yes. Yes there is.

Good thing I put gas in the car!

And what wonderful numbers, too!

It’s still sunny on the drive home.

And no, I didn’t take this while I was driving.

I was in the car, but I was in park.

No one was behind be, either.

It’s a perfect night to make some cheesecake!

Maybe we’ll go out to eat instead.

You will overcome great obstacles to achieve success.

Monday, 4 May, 2015

Sunday Snapshots

Enjoy a sampling of the photographs I took this week:

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Sunday, 26 April, 2015

Weekend Wandering (4.10/4.11)

I took these pictures while wandering around this weekend.

The local historic site where my wife works had open grounds in connection with a home and garden show, making for some opportunities I hadn’t had before.

Weathervane

Stone Rooster

A Purple Flower

The Garden Path

Down the Lane

Down the Lane (B&W)

Baltimore Bricks

Baltimore Bricks (B&W)

Human Urn

Don’t Blink!

Brick and Iron

Reflection in Glasses

Low Brick Wall

Bricks and Hedge

Tulips

Flowery Angel Wings

Facade

Blacksmith’s Lantern

By the way, if you know what the (purple?) flower is in #3, please let me know!

Sunday, 12 April, 2015

Black and White at Gold

To say I’m behind would be an understatement.

As the Red Queen would say,

My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to 
stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you 
must run twice as fast as that.

The week began innocently enough with a decent Monday, as far as Mondays are concerned, but it had all gone downhill by Tuesday afternoon. I was behind in Photography 101, behind in my online college class, behind in grading and lesson planning, and students’ science and history projects were due.

Today I played catch-up, rising before the sun on a Saturday – my one day to sleep in – to take advantage of the Golden Hour at sunrise. OK, that isn’t entirely honest. The Wife headed out of town to a business conference and needed to meet her carpool. I simply stayed up instead of going back to bed. Hey, whatever works, right?

I wandered downtown for three hours, taking pictures and killing time until the library opened so I could use the free wifi – and make another dent in my TBR.

My online class completed, I tackled the morning’s photographs.

Check them out in the galleries below!

Monochrome Architecture

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Movement

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Landscape

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I hope you enjoyed vicariously reliving my morning; for me it was time well-spent!

Saturday, 21 March, 2015

Stand Apart

Photography 101 has its challenges. Monday’s pop of color was no different.

I took another sunrise photo and thought that’d be it:

And then inspiration struck as I was cleaning out my supply cabinet and found a hoard of forgotten pencils – and just in time for standardized testing, too!

                      Stand Apart
                        by J.E.

People always say to be yourself until you do, then 
you find that everybody lied to you: "Your hair is 
too short, too long, too bright, too dark; your 
music's too loud, too goth, too punk, too rock; your 
art is too something; why can't you just be 
normal like us? You're so fake, focused on the 
external; fit back in the box in our monochrome 
world where no one stands out, no sensitivities 
curdled."

So we hide ourselves away behind a facade of what
passes for normal; believing we're flawed we put on 
a show for the world to behold while the things that 
make us us grow withered and cold. In a world that 
sees in charcoal grey and midnight black we see in 
bright neon hues and refuse to go back to the way 
things were before. Choosing rather to wrestle our
innermost demons, we risk and dare all to be the 
yellow pencil.