SONY 365

Day 55/365: Tree and Sky Reflection

No, the focus is not meant to be on the candle wicks but instead on the reflection of the trees and sky on the melted wax. I thought it was beautiful! I love playing around on the camera. It’s just too much fun. And it’s a good way to have you understand the way I view most things in life…a way that most people don’t usually look at things. I’m observant and I like unique views, angles, foci (being grammatically correct here lol), etc. I love looking at the world through the lens. I used the P setting for this one so I could tap on the middle of the camera screen and make sure it focused on the reflection part rather than the wicks. And that’s another thing I love about photography! You start by having one idea of a cool photo, and then it ends up having like a domino effect because you then start taking more and more photos of the same thing, but you now have hundreds of other creative ideas or angles in your head that would make the photo stand out even more.

Day 54/365: Electric Love

This photo was actually an accident, but it came out great! I was just trying to get a good photo of my finger touching the outside glass, but accidentally snapped a photo while I was positioning my hand, and this is what happened :) I love times like this. I used the Intelligent Auto setting on the TX10 and let it pick and choose its focus…not a bad choice for an intelligent camera ;)

Day 53/365: Luna Moth

I have never seen one in person before!!! It just happened to be chillin’ on our dorm frame when I got home :D HAD to snap a photo of it. You see these things flying everywhere in the Lunesta commercial on TV right now. They’re pretty awesome. I did my research, and I think that this is a male luna moth. The female ones looked like they curve a little more where at that brown part on top of the wings. And it was only after showing this picture to my roommate (who is an entomology major) that she freaked out and let me know that she had been looking for one of those for forever! Remember her collection I’ve been taking photos of? It’s growing more and more and more, and it is absolutely beautiful. It’s full of bugs, beetles, moths, bees/yellowjackets, and butterflies! More photos of it will be coming soon ;)

I had to use flash for this photo too, because it was wayyyy too dark outside. It’s not bad at all for a quick snap before it flew off!

Day 52/365: WN2W

In honor of my friends :) We got together most Wednesdays this year for hang out time and board games. We would play different ones each week, and this week happened to be Pictionary. I think it was a good and easy choice of game to end to our semester with! I’m soo sad a lot of people are moving away once they graduate in May, though. It saddens me to think about how I met all these wonderful people a few years ago, got very close, and here we are now saying our goodbyes. Many are leaving the state, which is why it’s so sad. But I hope that they’ll come back to visit and still remember me even if they’re far away livin’ the busy life and going through grad school. I have so so so much love for all my friends. It is ridiculous. <3

Day 51/365: 2 yolks, 1 egg

Haha this was so funny. Went to make breakfast, cracked an egg, and got this out of it! Pretty cool though. I don’t think it happens very often :) Anyways, I used flash for this photo. I normally don’t use it often unless very necessary, but the colors just popped out so much more with it for this photo.

Day 50/365: Sun

I battle with this a lot when I drive. The goal being to get good photos of the sun. It miiight be just a little dangerous, though. I just love taking photos the sun as a way to remember how I felt when I was driving and listening to my music with my windows down. Blithe. Happy. Free.

Day 49/365: Easter Eggs

So I went home for Easter (the Orthodox church actually had it this weekend not last one) and my mom had left some eggs just for me to dye. It was awesome because I ended up dying them all multiple colors and tye-dying some and just had a lot of fun with it. Overall, I had a really wonderful time with my family this weekend.

Day 48/465: Mexican Coke (It has more sugar)

My break between working hard all day & cleaning and packing to go home consisted of drinking this Mexican Coke that Shane bought me at the store. It apparently has more sugar, and I definitely needed that energy boost. It was nice and relaxing.
Taken on my pack porch using the background blur effect on the TX10.

Day 47/365: Claire’s Bug Collection, Pt. 2
Kinda gross but awesome :D This is another type of beetle that Claire collected in her box. People say they really hope that these bugs and moths and beetles and such things are dead when she does this, but… *drum roll* they’re actually alive! She puts some kind of poisonous liquid on them, leaves them in the jar she collects them in for a while, and then continues on to do the rest of the process.

Day 46/465: Cinnamon Pull-apart Bread
YUM!!!! Class got canceled, so guess what I did with my time? Made this delish food. First time making it…and not to brag, but I think I did a pretty good job! It was gone by the end of the day, so I’m assuming everyone enjoyed it quite a bit :)