Day 239 - Saturday, August 29th
Bitey-face, because who doesn't love bitey-face?
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| I think I've seen this movie before... |
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| I'm not sure I know what's going on here... |
Day 240 - Sunday, August 30th
Some fill flash, and a lot of bitey-face.
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| They look so innocent. Or shifty-eyed. |
Fill flash. Every time I use it, I wonder why I don't use it more often. I do with clients, but not so much with the girls. But after a "brain-turned-to-mush" work day today (the little grey cells were overworked), I thought it might be fun to do something different.
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| Such sisters! |
Still catching up here...
Day 230 - Wednesday August 18th
Our first day back in the neighborhood after the fire, and we enjoyed walking in the rain. (Add your own 'walking/singing/dancing in the rain soundtrack...)
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| Very nice to have rain clouds rather than smoke! |
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| Wet dogs! |
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| This is in my emergency back-up office, and since it's a small room, when you add a dog bed, it gets a little cluttered! |
Day 231 - Thursday August 19th
During the walk on Thursday (last Thursday) we contemplated the various spray painted marks left by the Sheriff/Fire Department during the evacuation.
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| This was our house. We think this means that they didn't find anyone home in the orange circle, but didn't know how many might be there, and then the white circle was confirming that we were evacuated. But we could be completely misinterpreting this. |
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| This reads "All clear x2" on a street with 2 houses. |
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| This reads '2 Ref'. We had heard that there were a few people who refused to evacuate (don't ask me why) and we think this was marking a house with refuseniks. |
Friday August 20th
If I took any photos on Friday I can't find them. (I honestly can't remember if I did or not; it was a day I was in the office, and it's entirely possible I was too busy to think about photos.) I'm human, and my 365 project can be however I want it - if I miss a day here or there, I never said they had to be consecutive days!
Day 232 - Saturday August 21st
In which Lucy-Fur succumbs to the Super Gravity Field in the yard...
Day 233 - Sunday August 22nd
One of the problems I've discovered with this who adventure is that I don't always have time to take photos off memory cards (either from my big cameras or my pocket cameras) and sort through the photos. My phone has a good camera, and it has a mode where it can shoot RAW, but I have to actually take time to learn how to best use the mode, and something about cellphone photography in general. Alas, time is in short supply at the moment, so learning cellphone photography is something I'll keep thinking about until I can find some time to actually do something about it.
But, I tried a few photos with my phone anyway.
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| Black Dog investigating the squirrel interlopers. |
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| Black Dog deciding that one can be on patrol in a semi-prone position. |
Yeah, I've got a lot to learn here!
Day 234 - Monday August 23rd
Dog assisted tree pose. I didn't do any yoga while we were evacuated - don't ask me why - I could have found some space, but it was nice to get back to it.
I broke out the Super Snooter Shooter, because why not?
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| So kissable! |
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| Yes, Daisy, I *am* your Mummy! (Gratuitous Dr. Who reference!) |
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| Bitey-face is better with a super snooter shooter! |
Day 236 - Wednesday August 25th
The super, super snooter shooter (the 10.5mm ridiculously wide angle fisheye lens). This lens is actually a little extreme. But it's still entertaining.
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| Sisters! |
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| Dorkadoodles! (Or Dorkadoodle and a sister wondering if she's really related to the Black Dog....) |
Day 237 - Thursday August 26th
I actually managed to take some photos on our walk today.
Our neighborhood hawk was out, but the light was orangish (smoke, and the sun low in the sky) made this photo look weird, and I could not adjust it in Photoshop - at least not to anything I really liked...
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| So. Much. Sun flare. |
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| Still orange tint to the light. |
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| "What are you looking at, lady?!?" |
This is a week and a half that feels like it's been a month... I have gotten so far behind at this point, and I've missed a day (last Friday) that I'm switching this to a different plan - A Photo a Day, Most Days. I have a bunch of photos that I get on some days that I'd like to spend more time with, and I don't see the point of taking 'filler' photos on days just to get a photo. We'll see how this goes, but I think this will make this fun again, and less of a 'one more thing I have to do today'. If I had more time, I could really do this justice, but I don't, so I think the 'most days' will work for me.
As I said, this last week and a half feels like it lasted a month, so I'll try to get us caught up here.
Thursday, August 12th - Day 224
This was the Joe Bonamassa concert. It was an amazing concert, at least half the audience were wearing masks (we were), and looking at the number of bands that are cancelling concerts because of the Delta variant, I think we were lucky to be able to see this show without it being cancelled. I was really fascinated with the lighting and how to photograph the lighting. These were all taken with my little pocket Nikon with a big (35x) zoom. Lots of grain in the photos because I had to shoot with my ISO at 3200, but I was pleased with how these came out. And I was amused with rotation of guitars that Joe had, complete with a roadie bringing the correct guitar out for each song!
Friday, August 13th - Day 225
Gary and his band played at a club up in Ogden Friday night. It was a weird place; it has live music often enough that they have "a sound guy", and yet they also have a poster of John Belushi from Animal House, and advertised 24 oz cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer for $2.99. So, a weird place. But, it was a good place for Jake and Elwood to the get the band back together (to carry on the John Belushi theme... By the way, I finally understand the line in the Blues Brothers where Dan Ackroyd tells John Belushi that he traded their Cadillac for a microphone, and John Belushi replies, "I can see that".)
This was actually shot with one of my regular cameras and an 85mm lens - and ISO of 3200 again. This is also a case where I have a bunch of photos but haven't had time to go through them all - and I'd rather work on those than take photos just to take photos to meet my daily quota.
Saturday, August 14th - Day 226
The day we had to evacuate because of the big plume of smoke in the sky that turned into the Parley's Canyon fire. Luckily, Larry took us in, and we got to meet his puppy, Einstein.
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| Yep. He's just that cute! |
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| One of my favorite photos of the kids! |
Monday, August 16th - Day 228
And now for something completely different. On Monday, a momma moose and her baby wandered into Larry's yard, and momma decided to go for a swim. I had to dash downstairs to get my camera, so I only got Mom as she was swimming back, after discovering that the youngster didn't have her water wings with her, and couldn't swim.
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| Are there crazy dogs in there? |
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| Just ask him! |
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| Sneaky little fluffball! |
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| I was trying to save the girls from the wee puppy monster. |
