My Instagram Themes

Inspired by Mary at Little Red House, I decided to pull together some recent Instagram photos not associated with my P365+1 collection for her Mosaic Monday meme.

I always have my iPhone with me and handy. I can start the native camera app without looking, very useful when taking photos at the spur of the moment. And that's what I normally do - I see something and snap the photo. Then I go into the Instagram app - sometimes I'll add a filter, sometimes I don't. If I really want to get fancy, I'll take a photo, edit it in Photogene2 or CameraAwesom, then go into Instagram.

When I'm not taking photos for my P365+1 project, I tend to take photos of skies:


I also like taking photos filled with color:

1. Home Pedicure Choices. Care to Guess Which Color I Chose? #nailpolish #colors, 2. Colors of February #rose #red #white, 3. Seeing Red, 4. A #Holga to Match Every Outfit #lux

Or places around town:

1. Illuminations #tree #night, 2. Feeling Academic #eiu #college #iphone4s #cameraawesome #photogene2, 3. Still Life #reflection #mirror #orchid, 4. Blowing In The Wind #grass #prairie

So, if you like mobile photography, what sort of themes do you see emerging in your photography?

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The 50mm Prime

More photography goodies arrived today, a 50mm f1.8 prime lens, a lovely gift from my friend, Mark, who upgraded to the newer version of this lens.



The lens is in perfect condition and even has a haze filter.

I played with it a bit this afternoon, and discovered that it is sharpest at f2.2, two stops from wide open. This is pretty common for wide aperture lenses.

I like the shallow depth of field and resulting bokeh.




The paper cranes are extras from a holiday tree our friends won at the recent Festival of Trees. They are beautiful origami cranes and will look great on our tree.

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Suspended Lights

From the restaurant last night during dinner with "The Girls".



I wish I had spot metered the front lantern - I would have been able to capture more detail of the glass. The software I use is able to recover some of the blown detail, but I'm sure it would have been better if I had captured it properly from the start.

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Art In Sin City

Some of the fine art around the Aria:

In the Dale Chihuly Gallery:




He is the artist responsible for the glass sculpture in the lobby of the Bellagio:


The Typewriter Eraser, by Claes Oldenburg

Truthfully, I thought this was an abstract rendering of a guitar! I guess I'm too young to know what a typewriter eraser is.

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Wall of Cans

For next week's Arts Night at school, my friend Jill is putting together several displays outlining the use of graphic design and art in marketing materials. One example - designs on a soda can.



Which designs stand out the most? For me, the Classic one - The bright red Coke can.

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Team-Up Thursday - Pastels

I chose this week's theme, thinking that it would be fairly easy to capture the pastels that tend to abound with the Easter Holiday.

Not so, said Lee. But I love her pastel chalks. They are certainly more "pastel" than my eggs!



On Thursdays, I team up with my friend, Lee for Team-Up Thursdays, a creative venture started by Melody and Megan. Each week, one of us picks a theme, we each take a picture and combine the two into a diptych.

You can view the other great diptychs at the Team Up Thursday Flickr group. I think there may be lots of eggs and candy showcased this week!

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Sweetness

A small glimpse of the sweet treats we enjoyed today.


Many Blessings this Easter Holiday.

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POTD - Shapes in the Hallway

Wandering down the halls of the kids' elementary school, these "stained glass" works of art caught my eye and made me smile. Because you don't see colors like these with all that white stuff outside.



Have a wonderful Thursday evening!

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POTD - Rainbow on the Ground

Courtesy of an oil slick in the parking lot.

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POTD - Colorful Laquers [bling]

My daughter has an ever growing obsession and collection of nail polish. I'm personally not a "paint my fingernails" type, but that did not rub off on her! And when I do get a pedicure, I opt for the more "standard" colors (that my daughter finds quite boring).

Case in point, just small sampling of her collection:


Most of her collection, under her bathroom sink:


I do admit - they are quite colorful, just not on my nails!

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