52.5/52: Future

Today the 52.5 photos of 2010 comes to an end. Tomorrow starts a new year and a new photo challenge with a new camera. Thanks Santa!

52/52: Night Street

Christmas night. My City. All in white.

51/52: Red

From my "Green Room."

50/52: Music

This is Konstaunse. A lot of times I called her Konny. She hasn't been out of her case since I graduated from high school. Yes, we used to name our musical instruments!

49/52: Window or Door

How about a Window AND a Door! These were found in downtown Cento Italy this last week. I figured traveling about 4500 miles deserved 2 photos! And this brings a reason to why I bought a tiny point and shoot a few weeks ago. I wanted to travel light.

48/52: Lines or Stripes

A sunny day makes for lines and/or stripes on my bedroom wall. (See previous post of such phenomenon.) Yea, pretty boring but I have things to do.

47/52: The Body

I'm not really into taking pics of people bodies. I didn't get out to take pics of water bodies. I didn't remember to take a pic at work of a car body. What other bodies are there? What to post? What to post? Here's a cell phone pic of my mom's cat Charlie. He's got the body alright!

46/52: Urban

This first pic was taken on the morning of October 17, 2010 of a local urban intersection down the street from where I live as part of my collage for the theme "My Day."

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4 weeks later the same intersection shows the urban renewal taking place here. Once a grocery store but soon a movie and bowling megaplex complete with overpriced cocktails!

45/52: Sky or Clouds

How about Sky AND Clouds.

44/52: Season 4-Autumn

The leaves change color and fall to the ground. Cool weather is now here and will soon change to cold weather. Too cold. How many days until season spring?

43/52: Shadows

A sunny day makes this shadow on my office wall.

42/52: My Day

In celebration of getting my G9 back from the shop I couldn't just take ONE pic for "My Day" but decided to take an entire day of pics. Here are 42 of My Day Friday October 15, 2010.

This also marks the end of my 690 day weekend.

41/52: Tradition

No, it's not Easter! A tradition when I was growing up was to put hard boiled eggs in pickled beets so they would turn purple. A lot of the time the beets were grown in our garden and then canned by my mom. It was always a favorite back then so I tried it again in my old age (but with store bought beets.) Delicious!

40/52: Electricity

Yup, electricity is on!

39/52: Sepia or Toned

Elizabeth has been here for 170 years this month.

Her roommates not as long.

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So yea, this wasn't actually taken in a sepia setting but rather a software modified photo from this spring since the camera is STILL IN THE SHOP. I'm starting to think I should have tried to fix it myself. I'm starting to think I'll never see the G9 again. I'm starting to think things shouldn't be sent off blindly to an address found on the internet!

38/52: Friend

Still in the shop for repair.

37/52: Bokeh

Bokeh: Japanese term for the subjective aesthetic quality of out-of-focus areas of a photographic image, or the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light.

Camera repair ETA 1-2 weeks so back to the archives (from a month ago) for this shot of my Golden Monkey Grass that is finally blooming this year. I don't remember it getting flowers since I the first year I had it in 2005. According to the link above it is also supposed to get berries. We'll see.

Sure I could use my cell phone to take the weekly pic but not for bokeh. It wouldn't work. Last week I could have but didn't. Next week? We'll see. Oh yea, a few weeks ago I used it (pre-digital camera dropping) and DIDN'T even mention it in the post. Trickery!

36/52: View Through

View through art. View through "Summer Dance" by Barbara Hepworth. This view through is from the Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids Michigan.

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Okay, this pic is from last summer but only because my camera fell to the floor (one too many times) and broke. I had to go to the archives for a "View Through."

35/52: Colour

Willkommen! Colourful flags in Frankenmuth Michigan.

34/52: Landmark

Tobico Marsh, located just north of Bay City, Michigan, and part of the Bay City Recreation Area, was designated as a registered National Natural Landmark in 1976 because of its large size, relatively undisturbed condition and variety of aquatic plant life. With nearly 2,000 acres of wetland woods, wet meadows, cattail marshlands and oak savannah prairies, Tobico Marsh is one of the largest remaining freshwater, coastal wetlands on the Great Lakes.