January 2013 Photo a Day – Something You Saw

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Mama Cormier

….. go about your day with eyes wide open and take a photo of something you saw.

Yesterday the weather had turned from a balmy six degrees celcius on Saturday to a frigid minus 11. The day hadn’t gone exactly as planned. I had a breakfast meeting at 10:30 that didn’t involve breakfast. The meeting went well and when it was over I drove to the mall to spend the rest of my gift certificate. I bought costume jewellery that I didn’t need but I couldn’t resist the bargains and I do love jewellery. Then I stopped at the Lindt chocolate outlet on the way home and had the first food of the day…. dark chocolate samples.

When I got home I finally had a healthy lunch at about 2:30. K started making a great soup for dinner and while it simmered on the stove he decided to do our daily walk before dinner. His thinking being that when he got back he’d be ready for a hearty warm soup. Remember it was -11 degrees outside. Initially I opted not to do the walk. After my husband left to do the walk on his own I remembered that I hadn’t done the photo challenge for the day.

I bundled up and decided to walk east, the opposite direction that we normally do our walk. Eventually I would meet up with my husband and then I could turn around and walk back with him. I also thought that it would be interesting to see the city from a different point of view. It was already starting to get dark and the clouds over the skyline were reflecting the setting sun in the west.

I tried to get some shots of pussy willows that I saw on the walk but it was too windy and all the shots were blurry. The soup by the way was delicious. I probably should have taken pictures of that.

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January 2013 Photo a Day – Delicious

Posted on January 20, 2013 by Mama Cormier

….what’s delicious to you? Is it the chubby cheeks of your toddler, the hunk at the gym or a cake you plan on eating for afternoon tea?

Delicious for me usually involves food but lately the colour of food determines how delicious it is. I no longer crave ‘brown’ foods and I am drawn to green, orange and yellow foods. More and more of our meals involve salads and lots of colourful vegetables.

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January 2013 Photo a Day – Shadow

Posted on January 20, 2013 by Mama Cormier

……find a shadow and shoot it. It could be your own, or a shadow of something else.

I don’t know if anyone else is having the same problem but if you are could you tell me if there’s a solution. Lately when I ‘publish’ my posts and preview my work I’ve discovered one of two things. If I edited my post over the course of my writing period I’ve discovered that my ‘published’ piece is not the one I published but an incomplete post that I had saved to draught. The other thing that happens is that after I publish, the post goes back into draught mode. I’ve often wondered why no one was going to my blog, only to discover that it wasn’t published. Very frustrating because I don’t know what I’m doing to finally make the publish function work. Sometimes I’m republishing the same post a half dozen times before it works. HELP!!!!!!

Today’s challenge involved getting photos of shadows. It’s been pretty cloudy the last little while so shadows have been non-existent but just before the New Year I was having some fun on one of our walks after the big snowfall.

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January 2013 Photo a Day – Ready

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Mama Cormier

…. Is it a photo of your dinner being ready? Or you ready to catch the bus? Or something else. It’s a toughy – but it will get your mind thinking!

It was snowing tonight and very cold as we went out for our walk. The whole time I kept thinking about what to do for this challenge. I was looking forward to a hot cup of tea and the chicken we had for dinner was waiting to be cut up so that I could use the carcass to make a chicken stock for future meals. Consequently my photos represent getting ready for tomorrow’s lunch, getting ready to make the stock, being ready to dig out if the snow continues throughout the night and ready to enjoy my tea and one of two new books that I picked up from the library after work.

January 2013 Photo a Day – Two Things

Posted on January 16, 2013 by Mama Cormier

…. look for things in pairs today. Is it a lovely old couple that you see from behind? Or the salt and pepper shakers sitting on the bench? Find two things and take a photol

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January 2013 Photo a Day – An Ordinary Moment

Posted on January 16, 2013 by Mama Cormier

….choose an ordinary moment and capture it. Is it you grabbing your daily coffee? Or playing with the kids? Or something that you do often and consider it as kinda ordinary?

Enjoying breakfast at the cottage with a cup of coffee and a good book.

Walking Frances after our first big snow fall.

Loading the dishwasher.

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January 2013 Photo a Day – Yellow

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Mama Cormier

…. I enjoyed looking for yellow shots

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January 2013 Photo a Day – Round

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Mama Cormier

…. I thought this one was going to be easy

January 2013 Photo a Day – Surprise

Posted on January 12, 2013 by Mama Cormier

…. I don’t know who was more surprised, me or the ducks?

The biggest surprise today had to be the weather. We hit a record high for January 12th. It was a great day for a walk. Everybody and their dogs were enjoying this beautiful, warm, sunny day. Even this family of ducks took advantage of the warmth and were out for a little stroll along the path.

Unfortunately this lovely picture didn’t last long when Frances realized that there were ducks walking ahead of her and when the ducks caught wind of Frances in the rear. The flock quickly took flight and landed in the lake, far away from any canine company.

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