Thirty Days: Day Five
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Thirty Days: Day One
Rebecca has been following the blog of one SouleMama for a while now, and recently pointed out to me a project she had been working on: 30 days of the everyday. Inspired by the idea of taking one photo each day of something from every day life, I’m going to give it a go for myself.
At first I had my doubts about doing such a project. After all, I have a fairly ordinary life. I go to work for eight hours a day and sit in the same blue-gray cubicle, and I’m not exactly encouraged to carry my camera around the building, much less take photos of things. At home, I’m mostly in the same little house each day, and we don’t travel all that much.
But then I realized that part of the reason to do a project like this is to encourage me to be creative, and to recognize and appreciate the things in my every day life that are interesting or beautiful. To push my creativity and to find different ways of looking at the same things.
I also hope that this project will inspire me to take more photos, and develop good habits of uploading and blogging them more frequently.
So to start off, here’s my photo for today.
Frost on a Corolla
Thai and Eclipse
For a variety of reasons, I had a craving for Thai food tonight, so I took the family out for dinner at Siam Delight. I had my usual Country Fried Rice (not an especially unique Thai dish, I know) and Beef Soup, and Rebecca had Mee Pad See Yue. Catherine nibbled at some rice and peas, but mostly kept us busy chasing her around the restaurant. 🙂 Here’s Rebecca enjoying her meal:
More pictures from Siam Delight.
Later this evening, Rebecca and I huddled out in the cold to watch the lunar eclipse. I did my best to get some photos, but due to a combination of the cold and trying to use some unfamiliar settings on my camera, none of them came out particularly well. You can see the few decent photos from the eclipse.
Everyone’s a Wii-ner
Tonight we had dinner with Corey, Vicky, and Vicky’s roommate Jasmine in Vicky’s apartment in Somerville. After dinner, we played some games on their Nintendo Wii! This was our first time playing a Wii, and we had a lot of fun. We played tennis, boxing, and bowling in Wii Sports, and we also played a few rounds of Smooth Moves. Catherine had fun watching her Momma and Papa gesticulate wildly in front of the TV. 🙂 Good times were had by all, and Catherine was definitely sad when we headed home.
See some more pictures from the evening.
Photographs, recently
My photography workflow goes something like this:
- Take photo with digital camera
- Delete photo on camera if it’s obviously bad
- When all photos are taken, connect camera to computer
- Download all photos into iPhoto
- Delete any photos that are bad upon closer inspection
- Make corrections to the remaining photos: crop for composition or extraneous elements, correct color and exposure, sharpen, remove noise, enhance saturation
- Export photos from iPhoto to Gallery
- Write up a blog entry to let people know about new photos
Steps 5-8 are typically where I get hung up, as they are the most time-consuming. I’m particularly bad with #8 – sometimes there’s really not a whole lot to say about a particular batch of photos, and I don’t feel like just saying “Hey, here are some photos.” But I know that friends and family want to see the photos, so I’d rather let them know about them sooner.
So with that being said, here are some assorted photos that I have taken recently.
I shot a bunch of photos of Catherine in the living room, on an afternoon where there was some decent light coming in. I really like this one, where she’s just seen a dog walk past the house:
That same day, Rebecca, Catherine and I met up with my cousin Mark and went to Taco Bell for dinner. Here’s Mark with one of Taco Bell’s new dinner plates:
See more from our trip to Taco Bell
Valentine’s Day Dinner
Catherine and her Papa had a nice Valentine’s Dinner date last night and they were nice enough to let me come along! The three of us went to the Daily Harvest Cafe for some delicious sandwiches. At first we had a table for three, but Catherine decided she would rather sit in the comfy chairs- alone. with Papa. So I stayed at our table while she and Peter went off to color by the windows.
A good time was had by all!
Five Years Of World Wide Wood
I just realized this morning that an important date had passed us by without fanfare. So here it is in belated form:
Five years ago, on February 8 2003, Rebecca announced the birth of the website that you’ve come to know and love, World Wide Wood. prwdot.org itself had been around since November of 2001. At first, prwdot.org was my personal homepage, and then after Rebecca and I got married on 10/26/2002 it became simply a placeholder that redirected the reader to either Rebecca’s website or my website. Since 02/08/2003, we’ve blogged her together on all manner of topics. Our two main goals are to inform our friends and family of the goings-on in our household, and to educate and inform people about the interests and issues that matter to us.
We hope that you, our readers, have enjoyed following us all of these years. For your entertainment, here is a link to an archive of the previous versions of prwdot.org, going back to November 2001. For even more fun, here’s links to archives of some of my even older websites, going back to 1999:
* http://www.axom.com/pwood
* http://www.axom.com/~pwood
* http://www.cs.gordon.edu/~pwood
* http://woburn.dyndns.org/
* http://cephas.dyndns.org
* http://peter-r-wood.com
Happy Five Years, and Happy Valentine’s Day!