In stark contrast to the above is a quick shot from last week: a casual sunny parking lot portrait of my friend and colleague, the incredibly nice Ahna Fender. Ahna is a talented artist in addition to the preceding. Check out her art here at Artruckus.com.

Thank you, Ahna for having such a generous spirit and letting me take the snap. I wish I could have found a better background…like a houseboat would have been fantastic I think. These are the trade offs I suppose of “bloggety” photography. “Phoblography?”

So ends my 6th week of blog posts for Project 52. Thus far I’m both happy with and disappointed in the posts I’ve added. I’ll concentrate on the former along with the realization that it gives me plenty of room for improvement!

Self portraits are just uncomfortable business. But then again so is putting up a blog and sharing imagery and thoughts. All part of this experiment’s learning process.

I like this shot ok.  But it’s only just passable.  And really it’s only passable because I put four shots together and created the frame to make it semi-interesting and passable.  So again another learning experience for me but not a shot I’m particularly proud of.

In my next post I hope to be sharing something that works out better.  Perhaps I can someone to let me take their photograph. I also want to comment that this one photo post per week for this year is a little harder than I thought.  Or at least harder to get great images that I’m proud of.  So it maybe it’s time to mix things up a little more.

I think that shooting with a purpose is a good way to mix it up here.  And maybe also adding in more fun.  Photography is fun, dammit.

Photo by RonAlmog

Geek Side Note:

This is one my first shots with a gorilla pod which looks like a robot but even better than that works really well.  Thanks for the recommendation Mr. Nada and a double helping of gratitude to my wife for the Christmas gift.

For 2010 I have joined Project52 and each week I’ll be adding some new photography to my blog here.

This was shot on Christmas Eve with available light for a 20 second exposure using my trusty D70. I like the overall effect and subject matter but the color balance is god awful. I originally liked the car tail lights in the image but more and more they look amateurish to me.  Certainly this is not professional level imagery.   Still, I think it’s a nice holiday image and one that appropriate to use to wish you all a Merry New Year!

My inspiration to get out in the cold and shoot was the lovely work of Blake Gordon and his holiday image of a lone tree lit up.