The Boilover

So far four weeks, four words. This week’s? Colorful.

I’ve been sick with something nasty, but managed to push enough dayquil in my system to get off the couch when I saw a sunny Sunday afternoon sky and only half a day before I had to submit this weeks shot. I already had the idea picked out in my head–something involving the colored Queen Anne windows over at Parvis and the Color building. Glad the films cheap enough, I took a ton of copies of every shot trying to get the focus etc where I wanted it. I can only imagine what would happen if I had a real camera…I’d probably still be over there.

My choice for week 4

Here are some of my other favorites from that little shoot.

*It probably isn’t Jay Bruce’s Horizon Yacht. But it could be! I mean, if he has all those cars….

So the last day to upload a pic for week 3 of IH2Sw? landed on my birthday. I already had a bunch of other pictures in mind, but when my girlfriend made red velvet cupcakes and even better buttercream frosting I knew things might change. We ended up decorating them in a back and for battle of oneupmanship that produced the array of designs you see below. And of course, I had to have a 20 minute photo shoot with them.

While I like the ring of shadows around the cupcakes, and I used it since I was able to upload it on my birthday, the better shadow pic is one I took of some weird little ice things in my freezer. They produce their own little shadows in the foreground, while the background is one big shadow. It is a little blurry though, and like the rest of the pix, didn’t speak to me/trump the birthday photo. Plus those cupcakes were so good…

Normally I wouldn’t post about something as silly as building my girlfriend’s cat a small fort. However Juju (or Jubbs) is such a I-want-to-be-next-to-you-at-any-breathing-moment lap cat, that to produce a cat fort that keeps this feline occupied while we watch an entire movie is, well, worth blogging about. In fact, the Jubbs hasn’t gotten up from her new bed of beds in about 2 days except for the occasional food, bathroom, or playing with a cork (her favorite toy) break.

To think that two towels, two couch cushions, and my favorite chair could keep Juju occupied for hours, much less days, is almost unfathomable. Indeed, we have created the perfect Purrtress of Cattitude.

I’ll keep you informed as the situation develops.

I was planning on making the “I Have to Shoot What?” 52 week challenge a regular Friday feature, but I already screwed that up because I didn’t take my week 2 picture until last night. The prompt was simply “Music” and I knew I had to go back to try and shoot Music Hall again at night, this time with my tripod.

This week I also contributed an outtake photo, as permitted by the group. During the week I took some generic macro shots of a guitar, just in case I wasn’t able to get my Music Hall shot. While I got plenty of the strings, body, etc, one stood out. The camera didn’t focus at all on the guitar, instead it caught my girlfriend peaking her head above the fat end. I thought it was funny, and it served as a reminder of a good night in general.

The Winner

The Outtake