I felt mostly uninspired by the themes of the previous 7 days, but once I got to editing, I’m pretty pleased with the results:
Day 65 – Lunchtime
Day 66 – Crawly
Day 67 – Personality
Day 68 – Shadow
Day 69 – Fly
Day 70 – Light
The themes for the next 7 days:
Day 71 – Fall Colors
Day 72 – Red
Day 73 – Emotion
Day 74 – Something Closeup
Day 75 – On the Table
Day 76 – Landscape
Day 77 – Make You Laugh
Another fairly successful week, I think…
Day 51 – Race
Day 52 – Light Painting
Day 53 – Man Made
Day 54 – Fast Shutter
Day 55 – On the Ground
Day 56 – Thinking
The themes for the next 7 days:
Day 57 – 3 Things
Day 58 – Looking Down
Day 59 – Near
Day 60 – Love/Hate
Day 61 – Wide Angle
Day 62 – Errand
Day 63 – Furry Friends
All things considered, I think this week went very well.
Day 30 – Clock
Day 31 – On the Horizon
Day 32 – Card
Day 33 – Blue Moon
Day 34 – You, Now
Day 35 – Father
The themes for this week:
Day 36 – Far Away
Day 37 – In My Mailbox
Day 38 – A Leaf
Day 39 – Sunlight
Day 40 – Illusion
Day 41 – At Night
Day 42 – Generations
Now that I am caught back up, I’d like to step back and take stock of where this journal has went since its inception on August 9, 2006.
Since the last time I looked at these statistics, I have completed changed galleries. I can no longer show you what are the most popular photos in the Artistic and Snapshot galleries. However, I can show you the most popular pictures in the Smugmug Gallery.
Here are the 20 Most Popular:
You might be wondering what determines the popularity of a photo. Truth is, I don’t know all the details, but I can tell you what is the dominant factor. To quote the Smugmug website:
You can increase a photo’s popularity by moving your mouse over it and clicking the thumbs-up symbol that appears. You can cast one vote per photo.
You can also rate a photo or gallery with stars when you leave a comment.
There are other factors…like time. Photos from events past will usually be less popular than recent ones.
If you see a picture you like, you should take the 5 seconds to give it the thumbs up and maybe it will make the Top 20 list next time I do this little thing.
I also like to look at the Top Ten People that have been mentioned or photographed in the history of this journal.
10. Dad – 117
9. Carla – 118
8. Sara – 122
7. Willy – 124
6. Jen – 143
5. Teresa – 144
4. Derrick – 157
3. Shannon – 160
2. Jay – 180
1. Jesse – 195
Hope you found this at least moderately interesting. I’ll check back in on these things when I hit journal entry number 1,500.
I truthfully can say that none of these pictures were faked this week!
07/03/2012 – 11:53 PM
07/04/2012 – 10:14 PM
07/05/2012 – 7:20 PM
07/06/2012 – 2:16 PM
07/07/2012 – 4:45 PM
07/08/2012 – 2:48 PM (Happy Birthday Jay!)
I am truly wondering if I will go any place fascinating this week!
A few weeks back I took some portraits of Jen and Derrick’s toddler Evie.
Here are a few of my favorites from that photo shoot:
Next week’s random Wednesday will involve my weekend in Minnesota.
Pretty sure none of these pictures were faked as well.
05-29-2012 – 7:50 AM
05-30-2012 – 10:19 PM
05-31-2012 2:45 PM
06-01-2012 6:34 PM
06-02-2012 2:30 PM
06-03-2012 4:53 PM
Wow. Officially caught back up on The Self-Portrait Project!
Truth is that I probably don’t have enough photos taken to fill out all the Random Wednesdays that I have missed over the last couple of months. I have had to turn down numerous gigs and it shows in my lack of photos that I have taken.
Probably my best chance to fill up many of these open weeks will be to break up all the photos of Naima that I have taken. But I don’t know that I’ve taken enough of those pictures, but I’ll make a game effort.
The pictures for this journal entry are of Derrick & Jen’s little angel Evie taken when she was a little more than a year old.
I look forward to the next time Evie needs a photo session!
This project was to take some pictures with the High Contrast Monochrome setting on the Alpha 35. I probably don’t play with this setting enough.
More pictures from The Dissimilitude Series:
If you are wondering, I don’t know the chick in the last picture in front of Gaslamp. She just walked into the frame of the shot.
A few weeks back I went to watch Jen and her crew dominate the Des Moines Regatta. I used to have a bunch of statistics to back up this assertion, but they have since fleed from this old man’s brain.
I do know that Jen’s crew got the gold medal in their division and their time was good enough to beat at least one of the colleges competing.
I’m going to split these pictures into 2 categories. The first category is Evie doing cute Evie things:
Monkeys are Evie’s favorite although I think monkeys should be spelled monkies. Not sure why I feel that way.
This awesome baby backpack enabled Derrick and I to do some serious “extreme” hiking.
Too extreme for tuckered out Evie.
Most people wouldn’t advertise this fact, but unpictured was Evie’s first trip through a homeless camp. I’m pretty proud of having played a role in this “Evie’s First”.
Here are a collection of Jen’s crew in full domination mode:
There are many other high quality regatta pictures in this album:
I might have said this last week and it was a lie, but next week’s random collection will definitely involve Senior Pictures.
