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Remember this shot from August?

We are visiting friends and family in Chicago area and shot these town homes this morning. With the snow on ground from couple of days ago and grey sky, this shot rather turned out to be OK.

But I still like the idea of taking shots of places I visit in different seasons.

Had a busy day today and didn’t get to shoot until late this evening.

Did a shot of gift bag that my daughter and wife had put together for my daughter’s class teacher.

Want to wish Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays for my fellow bloggers.

That’s my daughter hiding behind her Fairy reading book for this portrait. She was a willing model for this shot as I promised her I won’t shoot her face 😉

Had to use bounced flash lighting for this shot as it was already dark by the time I got to shoot this evening.

An early post for day:350…yes 350 and not 348

We had freezing rain last evening and the road conditions were real bad this morning. So kids got a snow day to stay home and I opted to stay home rather than driving to work. I am one of those early rider who likes getting to work before sunrise and most of the side roads aren’t salted/cleared when I start driving to work early in the wee hours.

So as I was working this noon from my home office , I saw the snow truck clearing the icy road through my office window.  And then there was my little one standing by the window and watching curiously for the snow truck to pass by – he gets real excited about trucks and anything that makes noise 😉

I had to be real quick to taking this shot before losing the moment. 50mm lens attached to body comes in handy at such situations.

In case if you haven’t noticed, I went up from day 348 to 350. I realized that I messed up the days count in August and didn’t want to go back and fix my wordpress post titles. So a quick and dirty approach to get the days fixed. That being said, just 15 days more to go.

Makes me wonder am I the only one who started counting the days to 365 (?)

Note: Take a look at Brhum’s comment (6th comment). He has some suggestion for 365 photogs…just in case if you haven’t decided on what you want to do after ending this marathon 365 photo project 😉

Meet Angry Egg…akin to Angry Bird 😉

About a week ago when I did the portrait of my wife using iTouch app iLuminator, I had in mind to do something similar with negative space theme.

As I was thinking about the subject for negative space theme what popped up in my mind was an egg.

To make this as a fun post, my wife did some art work on this egg and then I shot this by having the egg rest on a black cardboard – a little putty magic did the trick to make this egg sit/stand on the cardboard. Again this was illuminated by iLuminator app.

Scarecrow? Not really…

That’s my son enjoying snow this morning. I used intentional blur technique to achieve this effect.

To be honest this was shot last night…

Had this shot @f/11 for 30sec exposure.