Oracle on Delhi 365

Tomatoes!

2012-01-14T18:53:00.000-08:00

This was pretty quick and colorful. As much as winter in Central New York is nice with beautiful snow, it has to be cloudy to get that snow. Bright red tomatoes in the dead of winter are a great pick me up.

One Dark Night

2012-01-14T18:39:00.000-08:00

I nearly forgot to shoot a picture of something. It was just before midnight and I knew we were close to a full moon. I dashed outside and shot the moon with a hand-held camera. It only peeked out of the clouds a few times before the clouds thickened and it was lost in the inky darkness.
The next morning though, I was heading into work before it set.

That's when I saw it and it would complement last night's photo well. Like bookends of a story.

On Pointe

2012-01-14T18:28:00.000-08:00

She was so excited to get her pointe shoes! She is very strong. Put the shoes on and stood right on pointe. Alas now she is taller than me while on pointe. This dining room floor is just big enough to shoot these images.

Fruit De Mer

2012-01-14T17:54:00.000-08:00

The annual Christmas party at work was actually in January. December just didn't work. I had the Fruit De Mer, a heaping pile of linguine with clams, shrimp and scallops. We had dinner at Aqua Vino in Utica. As always the food was delicious.

Cold Swim

2012-01-14T17:42:00.000-08:00

I got my bike ride in for January before the snow. I have two goals for the year. One, to bike 300 miles on the canal trail and to bike every month of the year. That might depend on the snowfall. If I can bike in February, then I will have biked during every month of the year.

This was the first duck I've seen on the old canal when I've been out on the bike. I've seen deer, snappers, skunks, cats, dogs, squirrels, pedestrians, a boy scout troop and the occasional biker. I saw the duck, and then it was another 45 minutes before I got back there with a camera. I was surprised to see the duck still there.

Fire in the Sky

2012-01-06T19:40:00.000-08:00

The sunset was fantastic. I work in the middle of East Syracuse where it is flat. I went down towards the dead end of the road to shoot the sky through the trees and swamp.

2012-01-05T19:46:00.000-08:00

I've been looking at these ornaments, we actually have them as a table decoration. Less likely to fall to their demise. I set it up on a flashlight and placed the tree behind it. Handheld at 105mm f/4.5.

Shoot First Ask Questions Later

2012-01-04T10:40:00.000-08:00

I wanted to get the shot early in the day and as the sun broke on the horizon, my ever ready talkative 5 year old said "Dad, the sun! Get a picture!" Who wants to brave the 11 degrees outside, not me, so I shot through the dining room window.

Snow!

2012-01-04T10:27:00.000-08:00

Turns out I shot two pictures the whole day. One was too dark because I had late night settings instead of outdoor morning settings on the camera, the second shot was snap and go from the hip.

Somehow I think it worked. We had about 6 inches of new lake effect fluff on the ground and on the tree!

New Year's on the wrong day?

2012-01-02T13:02:00.000-08:00

Having the official holiday on a Monday, January 2 is really throwing me off.

So you might think it's a day late, sorry, Happy New Year!

Garden Ruins

2012-01-02T05:07:00.000-08:00

I headed outside yesterday afternoon because the sky turned a funny color, the rain was near. I though there might be something interesting to shoot. The sky was too overcast and the thick clouds were not interesting. Picked up a few lost toys and waited. Way in the back I stumbled upon this pile of bricks. Not visible in the summer do to garden plants, here it was on the first of the year, exposed instead of hidden away.

We have a lot if bricks in the back yard, just a minute of digging will bring them up by the truck full. We live on the banks of Old Erie Canal so there is a lot of history there. There also was a house in the backyard and it is now buried back there. It used to be a store on the canal. Our house is brick and just a couple blocks away was a brick factory back in the canal heyday.

Jump Start 2012

2011-12-31T19:18:00.000-08:00

I don't know if I can do it. A lot of work goes into a 365 project, but I'm going to try it. So to start things off, here's a New Years Eve shot from my kitchen. There's one little wayward box alder bug hanging out on the leaf.

The Long Lost 365 Project

2010-07-27T12:59:00.000-07:00

Sorry everybody. Things got away from me here. If you look on flickr, you can see most of the pictures from the 365 Project. I underestimated the amount of work to post to flickr and blog them photos. I've missed a few days here and there and I think that's ok. The idea was to push myself creatively and content-wise. I find there have been a number of days were I had time to shoot to and from work and since I drive the same route every day, there is a lack of variety.

Here's the difficulty in keeping up, there are four little blessings (one's not so little anymore) that keep me pretty busy before and after work. Tough to get pictures with them using you for a jungle gym.

I'm going to try and keep updating the blog, but it won't be all the time.

What's the idea behind this photo. It's out in the garden and night, pitch black out there. Except for the interesting light patterns. I light painted the rock to make it more readable and just a touch of post processing for pop.

33/365

2010-02-06T17:48:00.000-08:00

1 out of 1 pregnant wife's want grilled cheese before bed.

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2010-02-06T17:46:00.000-08:00

If the Golden Arches can take my money and make me sit at the pay window for 10 minutes because they are too slow, I should be able to take pictures. She could have brought my sandwich to the pay window and I could have pulled out! Oops! I do the drive-thru sometimes. Here's my take on the true cost of a drive-thru: www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=198914577532&topic=11173

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2010-02-06T17:43:00.000-08:00

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2010-02-06T17:39:00.000-08:00

I was out testing new houses for Energy Star compliance and snapped this image of this mechanical chase.
What does a house look like before the walls go on? Like this. In this development, this mechanical chase was a serious point of air leakage. The war air from the house could easily enter the attic, taking with it the heat and moisture that you want in the house. In this chase is the dryer vent (metal pipe) and the radon pipe (plastic). The view is looking straight up the chase and into the attic.

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2010-01-30T06:02:00.000-08:00

Went out to dinner with a friend, their treat! One of our favorites!

If you can't read it use a mirror, I did!

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2010-01-30T05:22:00.000-08:00

Feeling uninspired after a day of not even picking up a camera, somebody decided to pose for me.

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2010-01-28T05:54:00.001-08:00

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2010-01-27T04:25:00.000-08:00

Nothing like the smell of fresh baked chocolate fudge cookies

25/365

2010-01-25T17:46:00.000-08:00

Yesterday was girl #3, today is girl #2. My brown-eyed beauty.

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2010-01-24T13:18:00.001-08:00

She loves her blocks.

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2010-01-23T19:28:00.000-08:00

I always bring the camera when I go to the local nature center. There's always somebody hanging around the feeders.

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2010-01-23T19:23:00.000-08:00

The pink contrail caught my eye driving home.

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2010-01-21T18:46:00.000-08:00

I wanted to capture the eagles on the end of Onondaga Lake, but they weren't there. I cut through Franklin Square. I think I may have photographed that in every season now. The old buildings and the open spaces are awesome. I want to shoot a wedding down there or maybe some formals.

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2010-01-21T18:43:00.000-08:00

I was getting down to the end of the day and noticed this in the entry of the dance studio when picking up my daughter. I only had my camera phone (blah!) I figured that would work.

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2010-01-21T08:36:00.000-08:00

Tuesday morning in the backyard was spectacular for snow pictures.

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2010-01-19T03:38:00.000-08:00

I took my oldest daughter out yesterday to see if we could find some fog pictures. Low quality fog, but we got a few keepers in our hour of wandering around. This is the Seneca River, nor far from our house.

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2010-01-17T15:37:00.001-08:00

I swung by Burritts Cafe for the afternoon music. They have over a 100 different musicians that play there. They have live music on the weekends. Today was blues and rock. When I get his name I'll update the post.

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2010-01-17T15:25:00.000-08:00

Hadn't picked up the camera all day, and was on my way to the sledding hill to get the girls when the reflections caught my eye.

15/365

2010-01-16T07:46:00.000-08:00

Christmas lights are so festive in the dark of winter.

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2010-01-16T06:48:00.000-08:00

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2010-01-13T19:44:00.000-08:00

I drive by this everyday and wanted to get a shot of it. Today was near perfect cloudy gradient in the sky.

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2010-01-12T19:06:00.000-08:00

He got jealous when I started shooting portraits of the other cat (Rat-boy). So he came over and posed!

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2010-01-12T03:53:00.000-08:00

Everything got locked in the car when my wife took off with both sets of keys to take one of the girls to Irish Step Dance. Yesterday morning's drive to work.

10/365

2010-01-10T20:01:00.000-08:00

Sunset tonight. The days are getting longer, but sunset is still before I get out of work.

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2010-01-09T11:59:00.000-08:00

Dropped off my daughter at the local nature center and who was getting his breakfast, but this blue jay.

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2010-01-08T18:53:00.000-08:00

I chased this ladybug through two rooms with two cameras and three lenses trying to get a decent shot. This one will do.

7/365

2010-01-08T18:33:00.000-08:00

Yesterday was a long day and it was winding down, realized that I hadn't picke dup a camera all day. Here's my cup of tea to relax.

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2010-01-06T20:51:00.000-08:00

Fresh fallen snow and a path to the backyard, 50 feet of shoveled path winding through the garden and lilacs.

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2010-01-05T08:28:00.000-08:00

Here's the back yard this morning. Click here for a January Calendar for your desktop.

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2010-01-05T04:12:00.000-08:00

Here's the mural in the Princesses' room. Finally the painting is 99% done and life can start to return to normal.

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2010-01-04T03:50:00.000-08:00

I thought about giving you a break from the pink. The painting has been a big part of my day, but also the snow. We had more than 2 feet come down during the day. We saw a plow twice all day.

Saw this in the morning, but frost on glass with a blizzard outside does not show up well. Using the outside light as a back light and the flash as fill, it worked. There was less frost in the morning when I first saw it.

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2010-01-02T19:25:00.000-08:00

I got a lot of painting done. Here's the royal princesses' closet almost completed.

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2010-01-01T11:59:00.000-08:00

I've been working on painting the girls room pink. It's PINK! Do not attempt to adjust the color on the monitor.

Project 365

2010-01-01T11:47:00.000-08:00

This is my 365 Project. I'm going to attempt to take a picture every day for a year and post it here and in Flickr. I might get it posted every day, or it might be a few days at a time. Enjoy the pics!
In the meantime, I'll start on the Dunkin Donuts!