Day 104: Glamour

This shot was supposed to be my first submission to an online photo forum weekly assignment, "Glamour." I spent so much time today setting up shots and manipulating lighting and finding backdrops, and then choosing and editing photos. When I went to submit - it's closed! I missed the contest by mere hours. Oh well, I'll get in early next week.

Day 71: Wheel

I like this photo because it's so different from what I've been posting...namely flower, puppy, flower, puppy, flower, other animal, puppy....

Day 65: Fall

Fall is definitely here, and I love it.

Day 64: Bangs

You know when you tell your hair stylist about a crazy idea expecting her to tell you it would be terrible, but instead she says heck yes and does it and it looks awesome? That happened to me today. I'm getting used to (and loving) my new bangs.

Day 57: Bench

Spent some more time at Shelter Gardens this afternoon. I could take pictures there for hours.

Day 46: Bubbles

No story here - just dishes.

Day 34: Thanks

I have spent the evening opening up the last of our wedding gifts and cards, and writing thank you notes. I feel very loved right now.

Day 21: Lamppost

Spent the afternoon at Torii Beach for a family day event through Tim's work. We weren't actually allowed on the beach, which was a bummer. Oh, and there was a clown there. Not my best day on the island.

Day 20: Kitty

This is Garbage, our resident dumpster kitty. She/he let me get surprisingly close for this shot. I'm pretty sure she/he really wants to be friends with me, but feels she/he has to act cagey at first. We'll be BFFs soon.

Day 17: Wine

Um, we really like red wine in this house.

Day 16: Zipline

Spent our adventure day at the Okinawa Adventure Park. I'm not a big zipliner, so I acted as photographer for the group. This is my husband on the course, channeling Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Day 14: Marine

Once again, I left my photo until the end of the day, after dinner at the Mongolian grill. This actually made for kind of a cool shot, though. "Holga-ish" effect done in Picnik.

Day 8: Eye

Desperate for something to photograph before we head out to dinner. Yes, that is my eye, mascara globs and all! I wasn't quite ready for a full-on self-portrait yet. Cross-processing and vignetting done in Picnik.

Day 7: Tree

I am obsessed with this tree. Every time I go outside I take pictures of it. No matter what the light is like, or what camera setting I use, I can never get it to look quite right. Enter: Picnik. I added some vignetting and used the cross-processing effect.

Day 5: Garbage

I don't see these kind of trash cans much anymore. This is the first photo I've posted with some post-processing. I used Picnik (my new favorite thing on the internet) to boost the color here, but that's it. I had to restrain myself from adding a bunch of cool effects.