Fancy has a new 'do!

Forgive me for not taking the time necessary to really get a good studio-type portrait of Fancy's new hair style. I'm missing one of the receivers for my external flashes, so I only had one light. Ergh. I really need to work on a one-light setup. Anyway, her hair is really cute! I love it curly like this, but after we snapped a few photos she went and straightened it. It looks cute that way too, but I'm partial to the curls!
 

I love my Daily Shoot photo!

The Daily Shoot assignment today was to shoot something that is glowing. Today I set up Ken's Joby Gorilla Torch under my favorite paperweight and took some shots. I love the result I got!
 

The challenge from the Digital Photography School was "outdoor portraits." We used this challenge as the weekend assignment for Project 365 - we will be using those weekend assignments to choose the new profile photo. Since my photo wouldn't be chosen this time (as it's my turn to choose a photo) I submitted a goofy one...
 

The boys (especially Caleb) also wanted me to shoot my idea for yesterday's Daily Shoot (connection) even though that assignment was past. I was going to shoot 4 or 5 boys with arms around each other's shoulders, but I just never got the chance to do it. Caleb and Austin asked me to do it today, so here they are. Such sweet boys.
 

Knitting Bling!

stitch markers by Fancy
Originally uploaded by Elli :-)

I asked Fancy to make some stitch markers for me, and these are what she came up with. I love them!

I got the Special Olympics scarves mailed off today, so I started on a new purse. This is one I plan to give away, so no more details on that...but I'm loving it so far!

Now I'm off to bed to rest up for the Lord's day.

Scarves are ready!

My two scarves for the Special Olympics are ready! I'll be mailing them off tomorrow. Yay! It turned out that Alaska had met their goal by the time I was ready to send them, so mine will be going to Virginia. I hope the recipients love them! This photo of the second scarf was taken specifically to apply to the Daily Shoot assignment of "horizontal lines."

Peace and Harmony

The Daily Shoot assignment today is "Peace and harmony." Here is my interpretation of that theme...
 
It's very closely related to my concept of the "warmth" theme. 

I also played around a bit with my new "studio".

And the pullback for that last one...

 

Ergh. I've got a load of work to do, and not enough time to do it. I hate times like that. I would like to finish my last Special Olympics scarf and enjoy some television. Rarr.

Natural Beauty

TDS natural beauty
Originally uploaded by Elli :-)

The Daily Shoot assignment today was to find natural beauty. I loved the bright sunshine right over the menacing clouds.

I love The Burger Shack!

I had another opportunity to shoot photos for The Burger Shack today. They have added a bunch of items to their menu, and they wanted photos of some of the new offerings. Before I went off to shoot for them I wanted to try some different lighting methods, and I came up with one I liked. Here is my "food photography studio." It is foam core posterboard, and this "room" and my one flash were just what I needed!
 
(I have the flash power lower than I normally would for this so you can see detail in the foam core "room.")

Here is the shot I took with this setup...

I took these treasures off to The Burger Shack and got started on the deliciousness...

 

I think this is the prettiest burger - all those colors!

One more note - Caleb's pumpkin seeds (and golden melon seeds now) have started to sprout! Is it a coincidence that the first several to peek their little heads up were the ones that Caleb (Mr. Golden-Green Thumb) planted? It only took his 5 days! He was so excited! I said, "Caleb, look! You have sprouts!" He looked and then started dancing around the kitchen sing-songing, "I love sprouts!"