Here are two more "solo" jojos....hmmm, I should tell Photojojo about this idea....
The first one is a photo I took of or near the Leslie Salt facility in Hayward last fall in the late afternoon light. That site won't be there much longer. I see the drums from ground water monitoring they are performing. Once they get closure on those results showing they've cleaned it all up, they'll be able to tear down the building and move on with redevelopment. It's paired with a watercolor doodle I did at an art afternoon at a friend's house nearby.
Until they demo the salt site, I really enjoy seeing the dilapidated structure with the golden sun streaming down onto it in the late afternoons.
Below is a light standard on the San Mateo Bridge, paired with a doodle from a meeting at my former work. I did a lot of doodling in staff meetings because otherwise I wanted to jab my eyes out with the pencil...
Sometimes the photojojo partner travels or is sick, or I just don't get a photo from them for awhile. So what I do then is go into my archive of more than 16,500 photos (yes!) and find a photo to pair up with some drawn art that I created. This is a different kind of photojojo, but interesting nonetheless.
Happy Friday! The weather reports that it should be pouring rain today, but there is a nice bright spot of sunshine on my comforter where the dog is snoozing.
I'm off to De Young Museum today for some Art-O-Mancy. Stay posted for those results later tonight.
Here's today's photojojo - #112. My pal's lettuce pairs up with a photoshopped photo of a lupine-type flower on the walk from the bus this morning.
I've been swamped at work so it has been hard to find time to take the photos and then do the photojojos. But this is why it is so good to have a partner, because they do find the time, and send you their photos and then you are reminded, inspired, pressured, compelled to hold up your end of the bargain.
Here are two photojojos (4 photos) for the price of one today.
My photo partner's luscious strawberries in fondue, with my sidewalk markings (#110):
and my partner's barren trees awaiting the spring blossoms, together with my unretouched photo of clouds in this morning's early sky (#111).
Today's photojojo is some yard ornamentation from my jojo pal, and a night shot at the crab feed.
I took a photo of the books at my job and it's paired up with my pal's photo of an 8 foot tall flamingo.
The green leaves form a nice hairdo for the smiling guy who greeted my friend this morning.
I have a new photojojo challenge starting today with a new photo pal. I'm going to keep numbering these sequentially because that will allow me to track my photo skillage progress.
Mine is of steam coming off the top of a building my friend works in, and my photo pal's animal toys.
Today, here's a photo I took by a big pile of rust in St. Paul last summer, paired up with a doodle drawing I did a few years before that. They aren't inspired by the other - just connected through me and the art I love to do.
Photojojo #101
I don't have a photojojo partner right now, since Nancy and I completed at Photojojo #100 over the weekend. So, I decided to keep this going by Photojojo'ing with myself.
Here's how it works. I'll take two photos of my own and combine them together. Rather than the randomness that is so special in working with a Photojojo partner, I'll actually pick two photos I'd like to see paired, either because of subject matter, color, composition, or some other reason I think they "go with." Here's Photojojo #101, a portion of a building in SoMA SF, and a tree against the rainy sky I took today at work.
Let me know what you think!
We are finished! Nancy and I have done 100 combined photojojos - so today's - #100 (which is also on what would have been my 29th wedding anniversary) is an auspicious finish.
This is Nancy's clouds and my view of also some clouds (after a week of non-stop rain) on the 101 in San Mateo late this afternoon.
Enjoy!
Here's Photojojo #99. Both shots apparently taken in restaurants. Nancy's condiment tray and my shot of a plant taken in a very dark restaurant last night with my iPhone camera. I like the grainy-ness of the shot which is what happens to these images taken in low light. There's lots of noise the background that starts to appear when you increase the exposure.
Tomorrow is the last Photojojo for Nancy and me. :(
I was at the Ritz tonight to listen to jazz. My photo is of the candle on the table, reflected in the glass tabletop. Nancy's sidewalk art goes nicely with this.
I love lemons. I remember one of the first dates with my husband he brought me a homemade lemon meringue pie, my favorite. These meyer lemons remind me of juicy wonderful pies. They were brought in from a co-workers tree. I put them in my cereal bowl at work and used the cubicle desktop as a neutral background to snap a shot with my iPhone camera. The lemons are paired up with Nancy's rock in the grass.
Nancy found some unsavory detritus on the ground at the park; my photo is of overhead lighting while I was waiting for an important lunchtime meeting today. Ugly and mundane - such is life.
Today is the 95th Photojojo. We have only five more left to get us to 100. It's been a fun and rewarding process for me to take and promote one photo per day with Nancy. The similarities and synergies have been surprising. The combinations have been scintillating. The fun we've had doing this together has been wonderful.
My rose, Nancy's reflectors.
Here's today's photojojo. Nancy's signs are paired with a shot taken on the freeway (while stopped in traffic). Five is my favorite number.
I'm also posting photos every day on the 365 Day Challenge. Today's was from the Pacific Ocean in the storm. The clouds let up a bit but it's getting windy again out there.
Today's photojojo is all about shoes, purses (Laura) and boats (Nancy).
Today is Photojojo #92 - a pig snapped by Laura at an Emil Villa's Hickry Pit restaurant (the ribs were mmm mmmm good) and ropes by Nancy. Maybe this coming week will see some rain - related photos. It promises to be quite stormy.
Today is the first of a ten day countdown to Nancy and I completing this photojojo challenge. In just a few short days, we will be at 98, 99 then photojojo #100.
As always, the pairing of today's images was randown, but it works.
By now, can you tell who took which picture?
I'm in a holding pattern with the photo projects, so I'm just taking photos and posting them on my own. Here's one from my front yard yesterday.
I didn't think my new roses would be blooming in January, when they should be dormant, but I have several new buds. Here's a fully developed one, opening up. I did do a Lightroom preset on this to knock back the color. The rose is actually a deep dark pink, with a white but I think it looks good with this 70s film treatment.
My photojojo buddy Nancy is out of town, so we will resume the photojojo challenge when she returns later this week. In the meantime, I'll post a few more of my photos from the trip to the cosmetics store.
Here's a good one of a mannequin.
I was out shopping today - actually waiting on my daughter who was shopping. I usually can keep myself busy and occupied with my little iPhone camera. I took a bunch of photos in the Ulta cosmetics store.
This pair of photos is not as weird as it looks. There was a display with photos of these truly beautiful women (models). The only problem was that the paper used for the photos was slightly wrinkled so that when taken from an steep angle from above which accentuated the wrinkling, it exaggerated the facial features of these two models.
For Photojojo #86, Nancy's cat from the vet's office is paired with Laura's mannequin from the Ulta store in Foster City.
Here is today's photojojo. We're in the home stretch to finish this project - going to 100 within the next two weeks.
Nancy's special paper is paired up with some concrete graffiti I saw on the street today in San Francisco.
I went to see Ovo (Cirque du Soleil) with my sister and niece, and my daughter. I've seen three of these performances over the past four years: Corteo, Kooza, and now Ovo.
I loved Corteo - it was a funeral procession combined with an acrobatic circus. Funny, sweet and sad all at the same time. Kooza was okay - it didn't have as much of a theme holding it together as I would have liked. Still, the costumes and music, and the acrobatics, were wonderful to watch all on their own.
Ovo was so so beautiful. The Kiwi dance, the moths/butterflies, and an amazing acrobatic piece where performers bounced from these cushion/spring pads on the stage up to a wall and back down. They looked like geckos.
The ladybug and the fly were so wonderful and the smattering of French gibberish was so so funny and special. I was so wowed by the beauty and loveliness that I cried.
See it if you get the opportunity.
Today's dominant color in the photojojo, #84, is rust. Nancy's scary face is paired with my photo of some ironworks art spied on a drive out to the Princeton Harbor area.
There was a fantastic art walk there a few months ago and I think where I took this photo is the same place that was doing welding demonstrations. The big piece in this photo looks to me like a lemon juicer on steroids.
Happy Friday!
Today's photojojo title was taken after that very famous work of art, Blue Boy. I think my grandmother had a reproduction of it hanging in her house. We would visit there every summer for a few weeks - my brother, sister and me. Nancy's blue texture on the left goes with the piece of tinsel I saw on a chair in a conference room this morning. Looks like someone was thrown a baby shower.
I remember the red dirt (Paradise), swimming in the Feather River before they built the Oroville Dam, and chasing around in the hot summer sun. We would eat peaches from my grandfather's precious fruit trees - they seemed like they were the size of small basketballs - and feed the chinchillas every morning. My job was to wash all the water bottles once a week. Grandma had two beds in a closet with bi-fold doors that were where my sister and I slept. The mattresses were foam and it was comfortable enough.
We were forced to take a nap every day right after lunch - from 12:30 to 1 pm, when my grandparents had their naps. I never could sleep then. What I would give for a situation where daily naps were required now. How civilized!
Anyway, the Blue Boy and the Pink Girl were hanging in a hallway or maybe my grandmother's bedroom, I think. I looked at them a lot over those summers, inspired to be an artist someday.
Photojojo #82 is bamboo by Nancy and chocolates at Eva's by Laura.
Today's photojojo - #81 - is a shot by Nancy of a book in the leaves, combined with blurred on-coming headlights by Laura.
It's that time of year when Kale is in abundance, both as something to eat and as garden eye candy. These beauties were spotted outside some shops on a rainy day in Fairhaven Washington. The gear, Nancy's, is of origin unknown.
I know - lime green is so 2008 or 2009 - but I've just discovered it and love it! I got a lime green case for my iPhone a couple of months ago, then my choice of colors for my new 2010 Keel's Simple Diary by Taschen was lime green.
This is my 500th post on my blog. Still looking for more followers but it helps to post every day and it will make a nice book at some point too. My blog - slurped into a book by Blurb.
So, here's a pile of lime green as a refreshing, crisp way to start the new year.
Goes well with tangerine, another good color.
I spent another few days up in Bellingham over the longish New Year weekend. I find so much inspiring to photograph up there. It seems the combination of Canada, the light (or dreary not-light), the sea harbor aspects and the fact that it is an older area (lots of overhead power lines, old buildings etc.) make it very inspirational for me.
Though I do not consider myself a photographer, I am starting to develop a better eye for composition and choice of subjects. I realized that I've shot almost 7,500 photos on my Canon 40D now. I've had it for about 18 months. I know that number of photos is squat compared to many professional photographers who shoot that many in about a week, but not being "pro," I come from that somewhat scarce place of film photography mentality - limited shots (24 or 36 to the roll). I'm convinced that is one big reason I never got too far with film - the limit of 24 or 36 just paralyzed me.
So, I still forget that my limit is much higher based on the size of the card. I tend to shoot quickly when I see something that seems worthy, but if I have the time, I frame it, and think carefully before shooting. This may stem from the laziness of going through too many photos, post shoot, and my inability to throw things away. Ironic that now that I am nearly limit-less in my shots, I'm so much more careful with what I choose to shoot. Well, there is a balance in there somewhere.
Whatever the reason(s), I feel more confident and am happy to see some better shots coming out of my partnership with my camera. Happy New Year and here's to me getting at least one really good shot every week.
I'm sad to announce that Nancy and I will be going to Photojojo #100, then stopping this photo challenge. Nancy has started another photo challenge, 4Women365 Days, for 2010. We'll finish this challenge up with Photojojo #100, then switching all our energies over to that effort. I may continue to do a 2x photojojo challenge with someone else, if interested. I like the side by sideness of this approach.
So, for the next 20 days or so, they'll both be up and running, and my challenge will be to use two distinct photos daily - one for each challenge. You can find 4Women365Days here, but don't forget about this blog and this photochallenge.
Barbie (Nancy) pairs up with some 2009 Christmas holiday decorations in downtown Bellingham (Laura). Time to put away the party dress and take down the snowflake decorations. Bah humbug!
This is the Photojojo for 01-01-10, but I had scant internet service over the weekend, so I'm just posting it now.
Nancy's Feliz 2010 from the NYEve dinner they attended is paired up with my shot from along Guide Meridian Road between Lynden WA and the Aldergrove Canadian border crossing.
We went up to White Spot for a New Year's Day lunch with my aunt and uncle. The weather was dreary, but I put on my Diana lens and got some dreamy dreary shots.
