Sunday, December 27, 2009

130. - Rigging

Photograph 130


From a long time ago (or at least before I had my new camera, judging from the size) when the Tall Ships came in.

129. - Piano Keys

Photograph 129


Piano keys.

Thursday, December 24, 2009

128. - Waves

Photograph 128


At our friend's house again near the beach (very cold in the middle of December). Doesn't it look live it'd be perfect to swim in?

127. - Gingerbread House

Photograph 127


This is the result of giving the little girls a gingerbread house to decorate (the moms do all the work). Compare and contrast with my previous post, if you will.

126. - Chaos (aka my brothers gingerbread house)

Photograph 126


The result of giving my brothers and their friends free reign of gingerbread house decorating.

125. - Bride and Groom

Photograph 125


Yay Beth & Collin! (I hope I spelled his name right).

124. - Let me eat cake!

Photograph 124


My cousin's (once removed? My first cousin? idk... mom's cousin) wedding cake.

123. - More Abstract Art

Photograph 123


More long exposure... Through a tunnel with lights every so often and me waving the camera up and down... interesting effect.

122. - Uh... Traffic, more or less

Photograph 122


On the ride home from Virginia (we did not leave with a high appreciation of their snow-cleaning abilities), I was having fun at night (having read myself mostly to death and not looking forward to using my lamo flashlight) by using my camera's long exposure setting in New York City. This is the abstract-art result.

121. - Rosepetals trampled in the Snow

Photograph 121


More rosepetals in the snow from my mother's cousin's wedding.

120. - Wedding Gown in the Snow

Photograph 120


So, I haven't uploaded photos in like, ten days. But I have good excuses! I was reading! Books... fantasy books! That's a good reason to neglect blogdom, right? Ok, well, in all seriousness, we went to my mom's cousin's wedding this weekend (in two feet of snow). It was actually snowing during her wedding, in Virginia. Did I mention it snowed two feet? We got stuck 2x on the way to the church (but some nice people from the neighborhood with two wheelers helped us get out). They had to move the reception and move up the time of the wedding from 5 to 12, and it was a good thing my aunt the hairdresser was there because the one signed up canceled. But it worked out, and they're married (that's the important thing). Anyways, this is a photo of the Bride's train in the snow with rosepetals.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

119. - Sunflower

Photograph 119


A Sunflower in my mother's garden.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

118. - Ice Encased Grass

Photograph 118


An old photo (one or two years ago) of ice encasing grass.

117. - Bee on the Flower

Photograph 117


This is a photo I took a LONG time ago.

116. - Orchid...

Photograph 116


This is the sort of flower I could have a nightmare about. It looks like something from a dark "Alice in Wonderland".

115. - Red Mushroom

Photograph 115


As perhaps you might have guessed, this is an older photo. From a mushroom photographing excursion back in our woods sometime this summer... or spring. I'm not altogether sure.

114. - Streetlight

Photograph 114


This is an attempt at photographing a streetlight in the snow (under an umbrella) with long exposure. None of my attempts seemed particularly worthy of blogdom, but then I messed with this one in iphoto... heaven knows what I did, but mom thought it looked cool so here it is!
Here's the original:

113. - Ice

Photograph 113


Sorry I've neglected updating photos for so long. Here is a photo of God's natural abstract art. It's from one of those times when the top of a puddle freezes but the rest of the water drains away and then makes interesting patterns.

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

112. - Gathering Corn

Photograph 112


A couple years ago I had a job working packing corn in the mornings (early mornings). It made for nice photo opportunities. Here's a blog post I wrote about it:

http://ariadnesbrilligblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/packing-corn.html

111. - Icy Berries

Photograph 111


I think I took this one with my old crappy camera, so sorry if it's not as good as it could be. I still like the photo.

110. - Sanibel Island Lighthouse

Photograph 110


Down in Florida, Sanibel Island (I think).

Sunday, December 6, 2009

109. - Boy, Fisherman, Seagull

Photograph 109


Last year for my birthday my dad drove me around to take photos of things.

108. - Egret

Photograph 108


From our trip to Florida; these birds let us walk up right next to them.

Friday, December 4, 2009

107. - Web and Horse

Photograph 107


This is another old photo, it's near our house where there's a horse barn. This was a hole in the fence I took a photo through; the blurry silouette in the background is actually a horse.

Here it is also in B&W, I couldn't decide which version I liked better.


106. - Seagull

Photograph 106


I've decided to dig up some old photos that I've taken, this is from March 2008, when we visited our grandparents in Florida.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

105. - Gravestone

Photograph 105


We visited the nursing home this afternoon and in the woods nearby there is an old gravesite.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

104. - Seagulls in the Surf

Photograph 104


Seagulls at the beach during sunset... on Nov. 30. I can't imagine how they deal with the cold.

Monday, November 30, 2009

103. - Beach Fence

Photograph 103


See explaination photo 102... this was one of the few not looking into the sunrise that came out well.

102. - Sunset at the Beach

Photograph 102


We visited some friends last night who live near the beach, so we all walked down together and walked along the shore at sunset. It was beautiful, but a bit to dark to take photos in any direction except towards the sunset, which was kind of disappointing. I did manage to get a couple that weren't too blurry, though.

Saturday, November 28, 2009

101. - Sunset over the Pond

Photograph 101

100. - Geese Flying South

Photograph 100


Geese flying south.

Thursday, November 26, 2009

99. - Hoop

Photograph 99


Today, some friends came over for Thanksgiving, so we walked down to the Park and played Basketball... well, they did. I just took photos... I can't play. :)

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

98. - Raven in a Dead Tree

Photograph 98


Another raven from Bryce Canyon... see photo #24.

97. - Sunrise on Dead Trees

Photograph 97


These are near the Grand Canyon. Dad and I walked out to see the sunrise.

96. - Coyote in the Parking lot

Photograph 96


This coyote ran up to our car in the Mesa Verde parking lot (where we had turned over to take photos of four bucks). I guess people feed the wild animals and, since there are no hunters allowed, they are very tame.

Sunday, November 22, 2009

95. - Look up

Photograph 95


This is looking up in the Narrows (Zion). Either that or it's looking up in Bryce. But I think it's the Narrows.

74. - Children on 4th of July

Photograph 74


Here's the same cute children from photo 49.
http://aridanes365photographs.blogspot.com/2009/10/49-4th-of-july.html

94. - Hoodoos

Photograph 94


Sorry I forgot to update for a few days, I'll do them all now. Here's a view from inside the hoodoos at Bryce National Canyon looking up.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

92. - Butte

Photograph 92


Driving towards the CO mountains to go back home... on this section of our trip we saw some really weird landscapes; it looked a bit like photos of the moon. Some places looked like this but without grass... just grey dust.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

91. - Burned Trees

Photograph 91



We saw lots of forests like these on our vacation, it was really interesting, the extent of them was amazing...  miles of burnt tree husks. I guess some Native Americans set controlled forest fires on purpose to clear land... I think I also read that it helped the enviornment.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

90. - Sunset, Grand Canyon

Photograph 90


This is looking away from the sunset, the rocks were all colored pink. I don't particularly like this photo of it... but then, what can do it justice?

Monday, November 16, 2009

89. - Starfish

Photograph 89


From Beavertail, same near lighthouse in one of the first few photos.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

88.- Lobster Pots

Photograph 88


From my walk in Wickford.

Saturday, November 14, 2009

87. - Guitar

Photograph 87


No, I can't play the guitar, I just like taking pictures of it.

Friday, November 13, 2009

86. - Parakeet on a Painting

Photograph 86


Another photo of my mom's friend's parakeet... Photograph #2.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

85. - Can you see the Road?

Photograph 85


I don't remember where this was on our wanderings....

84. - Dog in the Doorway

Photograph 84

This is a dog at a Hippy restaurant we went to in CO. They had buffalo burgers, and burgers made from their own cows. You could tell the locals hung out there; there were two horse trailers with horsies in them out front. There was a shop across from the restaurant and the dog was over there. When we went over there, there was another dog, maybe a stray, and this dog chased off the other one.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

83. - "Petroglyphs"

Photograph 83



These were some painted "petroglyphs" in one of the Indian roadside stands driving toward Monument Valley.