Getting Over It

Slept horribly last night.  Felt crummy all day.  Spent the entire day at home.  Highlight was getting the kid to eat a good dinner including some collard greens sauteed with olive oil and garlic.  (He loved them!  Yay, me!)  Nate didn’t take a nap so he went down pretty easily.  Since the wife is still in Vegas, I can’t go surfing tomorrow morning.  The good news is that I will be sleeping in for as long as Nate will let me.

Okay, I know that everything I just wrote has nothing to do with the photo below, but it might explain why I’m resorting to my second night in a row of shooting some on my kitchen counter.

Cerith Shell

Superman with a Loop Light

Today really tested my resolve to not break the chain.  I woke up with a fever and body aches so I hardly got out of bed until I needed to pick up my son from school.  My wife left for a photography convention in Las Vegas so I’m flying solo until Tuesday night.  I really picked a crummy time to come down with something.

After putting him down for the night, the last thing I wanted to do was take a photograph for my 365, but today would be my 50th day since I started so I couldn’t not shoot something.  So I looked through Nate’s toy bins, I saw Superman.  I figured a classic super hero deserved a classic lighting pattern for his portrait so I went with a loop light.

I’ll be channeling my inner Superman this weekend as I try to keep Nate entertained while trying to kick whatever bug I’ve got.

Superman

Shells #3

Early morning meetings usually mean that I’m shooting something in the evening after my son is asleep.  Easiest to shoot things lying around the house.  We have a lot of shells lying around lately so I just grabbed a couple for tonight’s shoot.

Gizmodo is running a photo contest this week for what you can shoot in complete darkness except for the light of a single candle.  There are no fancy prizes or anything, but I thought I’d try to kill two birds with one stone.  I thought having just one candle might create too contrasty an image so I built a little sweep using some white paper and paper clips.  The white paper served as a nice reflector to fill in some of the areas that would have been in dark shadows otherwise.

I thought I’d add a photo of how I set up my shoot on the kitchen counter.  Of course, when I actually snapped the photos, all the kitchen lights were turned off.

Shell 1

Shell 2

How I set up the shot

Randy’s!

Randy’s Donuts has probably been in more feature films than Arnold Schwarzenegger.  Of course, I don’t have an exact count, but it seems that every other time there is a montage of Los Angeles, Randy’s Donuts is featured.

Today, it is the feature of my 365!  Who doesn’t love a good donut every now and then?!

Randy's Donuts

Araceli and Maribel

The Classic Sprinkle

Yum!!!

Shells #2

The family trip to the tidal pools yesterday was not without its fair share of collecting shells and little bits of sea glass.  Here are a couple shells that we found yesterday.

Shell 1, Perspective 1

Shell 1, Perspective 2

Shell 2, Perspective 1

Shell 2, Perspective 2

Lego Men

My truck has been in the shop for the last couple days so I didn’t have a chance to go anywhere for my 365.  With a 4-year old boy, I never have a shortage of toys I can shoot here at home.  This evening, I set up a little scene using Lego men.

Lego Men