Day 91 - Rainy Bus Windows

I was on the bus today going to the mall and was just shooting randomly. This was from the inside of the bus. It was pretty wet and gloomy today. Thank goodness for my new purchase of rain boots the other day. I feel like December is going to be full of abstract shots and Christmas shots...

Day 90 - Dirty Door

I never realized how many marks and scratches were on our doors until this photo. I was feeling lazy and wanted a texture photo today so that I can use it as a stock pattern or something for later.

Day 89 - Juicy Couture Bracelet

I am back in Waterloo again. It's time for the reality of school and bills. After finals will be another break. Christmas is my next motivator.

Day 88 - International House of Pancakes

I'm late for uploading again. We woke up at around 2:00pm today and then we went to the International House of Pancakes (IHOP) and had a huge breakfast/lunch/dinner since it was the only meal we had today. We then went to two malls again and then we watched the movie Burlesque. I really enjoyed the movie but unfortunately, since we watched the late show, I missed the "deadline" to upload my photo. Again, at least I have a photo. I think I'll forgive myself as long as I take a photo every day.

P.S. The International House of Pancakes (IHOP) has DELICIOUS pancakes.

Day 87 - Christmas is Coming

Well, this is depressing. At least it's an interesting story though. 25 hours ago, at 1:22am, my friends and I left Waterloo to go to Buffalo, New York. The drive was about two and a half hours and we arrived at around 4:00am at the Walden Galleria mall for Black Friday shopping. The number of people awake at that time was ridiculous. There were so many people lined up in the freezing cold for doorbuster deals. We shopped for about 10 hours with no sleep, I think it's actually kind of impressive. We weren't done after that. We went to a Burlington Coat Factory, an Electronic store called Ultimate, Target and K-mart. We had dinner at about 3:00pm. When we got to the hotel, we were all pretty exhausted, but we were all doing online shopping and I was going to upload my photo. I had my camera, laptop, Photoshop, Flickr and Blogger all ready in front of me and was ready to upload my photo at around 7:00pm. I put my head down for a second while waiting for YouTube video to load. Somehow, when I woke up it was 2:00am...

I think today's sort of an extenuating circumstance. At least I took a photo, and somewhere in the world it's still Friday right now (San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Vancouver etc.). I was really upset but I'm okay with it now. I think I'll continue to do some more online shopping because I can't sleep yet.

This is a photo of one of the Christmas tree displays they had at Target. I really wanted to take a lot of photos in stores today but I had a lot of bags with me and there were just so many people that I was afraid of dropping my camera. Plus, I'm still not completely comfortable with the weird looks that some people give. I do like how there are other Christmas trees in the background that made for a nice bokeh effect though.

Day 86 - Lego Earphones

Today's a lazy photo again. I'll be going to shopping tomorrow for the Black Friday weekend so hopefully I'll get some more interesting photos this weekend. I bought these earphones a while ago because they were on sale and I thought they were interesting but I have yet to use them.

Day 85 - Pentagonal Lights

I went to the UW photo club meeting again and today there was a challenge where everyone was given a different set of camera settings and people would have to find something to take a photo of with those settings. My assigned settings were: 1/500 shutter speed, f4.0 aperture and 1400 ISO. I had a lot of problems with getting light so I ended up just taking a photo of these abstract lights.

Day 84 - Noodles in Hot Dogs

My friend saw a photo of noodles in hot dogs online and so we decided to try it out for ourselves. You just have to put the spaghetti inside the hot dogs before you boil everything. It was actually quite delicious.

Day 83 - After the Rain

It gets so dark so quickly nowadays. I took this under an hour ago and now I'm looking out the window and it's already really dark. I really miss nature pictures. After all these midterms and finals are over, I would like to take a dedicated photo walk. It has certainly been a long time since the last time I've done so.

Day 82 - Light Switch

Today's a quick photo. I am starting to realize that I really need to start studying again. I was considering fixing the flaws in the wall of this photo but decided that all the holes in the wall kind of gave it a little bit of personality. This is the light switch in my friend's room and for some reason it's the only one with a different cover thing.

Day 81 - Shoe Rack

I am in London right now visiting some friends. This is just a quick little photo of their shoe rack.

Day 80 - Tool Fence

This is the side of house of our current neighbours. This photo actually came out more interesting than I thought it would be. I'd like to take more pictures during the day. Natural sunlight is so much nicer than the yellow light a lamp provides.

Day 79 - Take a Bow

This is a a photo of a little bow clip that I put on a mirror. It's been a very tiring week.

Day 78 - Rainbow Rice Krispies

I bought a pack of rice krispies so that would be able to have a snack break during school but I end up always just eating them at home.

Day 77 - Piggy Flashlight

I wanted to go with a dark background for a change. This little piggy key has a heart shaped button on the button that you press for light. I found this in one of my miscellaneous storage boxes and discovered a lot of tinkers I forgot I had. I think I'll be taking photos of those soon.

Day 76 - Oh My

Lighting and Photoshop has not been very kind to me today but I don't really have the time to be as meticulous as I'd like due to a midterm tomorrow. The background really makes me cringe but I'm surprised I was able to make such a surprised face. I don't think there has ever been a real situation that called for that reaction thus far in my life.

Note: The background looks less distracting on Black

Day 75 - Penguin Bobblehead from Mexico

I'm not sure why, but I seem to really enjoy the square crop. Anyways, this is a souvenir my friend bought me from Mexico. They were bought with the Turtle Bobbleheads from Mexico on my Day 48 of my Project 365.

Day 74 - Mango Mochi

This is a mango mochi, it's a Japanese snack that I enjoy very much. I don't think I made it look as delicious as it really is but nevertheless.

Sometimes I feel like my photography is lacking consistency. I feel like my photos are so random. It seems everyone has a style and I'm afraid I might not have one. I guess that's why I'm doing this project so that I can experiment and discover it.

Day 73 - Joe Poster

The other day I decided to put this up on my wall. My friend made these for me on my last birthday and they seem very decorative and make my room seem a lot more happier.

Day 72 - The Confused Flower

I'm not really proud of this photo, but it was taken with one hand while the other was holding two bags and a cup of hot chocolate, so I'm going to give myself a little break. This flower looks like it's reaching the end of its life so I thought I'd try to capture it before it was too late. I actually rotated the picture 180 degrees because I thought it would make it look better but I'm not so sure.

Day 71 - Traffic Christmas Lights

I was in Kitchener today and the traffic lights reminded me of Christmas lights. I've started mentally creating a list of gifts and things to get for everyone.

Day 70 - Chuck Taylor Converses

These are my friend's worn out shoes and I thought they had such an interesting design. I actually liked how they were worn out and I tried to edit the photo and exaggerate the "grunge" feeling but I'm afraid I might have gone overboard.

Day 69 - Bow Headband

Wow this is a close call. I've been studying and I told myself I couldn't post until I finished the chapter. I didn't finish the chapter yet but I'm also under the time constraint. It's kind of ironic because I'm studying for my Organizational Behaviour class. The topics include motivation and goals and it seems even though I'm studying it... I can't implement it so well. I'll learn eventually.

Oh this is my friend's headband that I quickly nabbed from her room quickly for a photo.

Day 68 - Box Blues

I must admit this is kind of a lazy shot. This is just the pattern on one of my storage boxes. It snowed the other day in Waterloo. That means it's fair game to start playing Christmas music up until Christmas now!

Day 67 - Sushi 99

Today we went to a place called Sushi 99 to eat all you can eat sushi. I intended on taking a photo of the sushi with my DSLR but it turns out that I left the memory card in my laptop (it's a terrible realization... same with forgetting a battery). I think I should start carrying a spare memory card wherever I go. Anyways, I just had my iPod Touch with me, and so I used an application called, "Instagram" which takes a photo and then gives an option to put a filter on the photo and I figured I would try the application out on this photo. It's a lot more grainy than I thought but at least now I've learned a lesson.

Day 66 - Penguins Can Fly

This is Waddle. I have had Waddle since I was four. I threw him in the air and tried to take a photo but it kind of failed. It still kind of looks like he's jumping off to dive or something. I will revisit this photo another day.

Day 65 - Rock Candy

These look like rocks but it's actually chocolate. They're called, "Chocolate River Rocks". They seem to taste more delicious than regular chocolate.

Day 64 - Lighting 101

Today I went I was with the UW Photo Club again and lighting was the topic. I think it was actually the first time I experimented with strobes, flashes, umbrellas, softboxes and all these fancy lighting gear. It made me really want some sort of external flash of my own.

Day 63 - Facetime with Cathy

This is my friend Cathy and we were both experimenting with the new Apple Facetime. The thing in the back is actually the back of her head and I'm in the small rectangle within the iPod.

Day 62 - Bird Stand

This is my friend's jewelery stand and it has a little bird on top of it. My jewelery stand is similar to this too but it makes sense since they were both bought from the same store, Urban Outfitters.