March Photo a Day - Week 1




Day 1 - Up

I work on the top floor of this building.  A six story office building looks more impressive from this angle.  And thank goodness for the grid lines on my camera ap, taking wonky camera phone pictures has become a specialty of mine. 

Day 2 - Fruit

Having winter citrus is one of the many benefits of living in Southern California, if only your screen was scratch-n-sniff.  Orange blossoms are one of my favorite scents.  I can't really take credit for the oranges, only the photos, since this was taken at my parents house. 



Day 4 - Bedside

Started off the day with literal optimism.  The glass is half full.  Also you can see the lack of paper.  My Nook has become a permanent fixture on my nightstand.

Life as a photo narative

I love the art of the narrative, regardless of the medium: photography, novels, audio, films...  Our lives are a compilation of moments, and sometimes these moments can be captured.  I'm sure everyone throughout the course of history has thought that they were living in a unique time, and I wholeheartedly agree. Some days feel special, while other days just feel special. This is an era of total documentation, we record every little thing, you tube, pictures, blogs and maps.  There are more maps now than anytime in human history.  Cartographers you have served us well. Everything has been charted; thank you google maps/earth/space. 

In my never ending quest for a satisfying narrative, I've given up Facebook for a new social media addition: Instagram.  I love the camera on my iPhone, I realize that some of you might disagree with this statement. It has given me the ability to take pictures and capture moments that would have been otherwise ignored. 

Halfway through February, I decided to join the photo a day challenge.  There are several versions of this out there, but I've gone with the one from an Aussie blogger. It's been a fantastic experiment in creativity.  If you have thought about participating, I highly recommend it.  I've done pretty well this month, and only missed one day.  But I have a fantastic excuse, the topic was "clouds" and it was one of those obnoxiously typical sunny California days and there wasn't a cloud in the sky.  I was going to be creative and draw a cloud on a post it and attach it to my window.  But by the time I remembered my concept, the sun was down.  Oh well. 

Photos are a narrative, and now I'd like to include some of my Instagraming in my posts.  I'll try and keep these to only the best of each week.  Somedays the topics are lame, or that's just my excuse for why my photos are less than fabulous.  All pictures are via iPhone, but I have no problem with using all of my filter aps.  I think tweaking the pictures are half the fun.   Hope you enjoy.

Reflective

My confidence in the eReader has officially worn off.  In my last post I was feeling confident in bringing my iPad on a business trip. 

It was fantastic on the plane.  Although I admit that I slept during takeoffs and didn't even crack open a magazine, but that was okay because I finished one book and started the next.  All thanks to being stuck on the tarmac at LAX for an hour which resulted in rebooking my connection in DWF (that's the Dallas airport code y'all).  So it was a glorious day for the iPad.

This morning I grabbed the trusty iPad and headed out for my business meetings.  I took notes, showed my staff some PDF files which saved me from paper waste.  All was glorious.  My Eco champion attitude continued, and I took the half mile walk back to my Fort Lauderdale hotel.  Once I returned to my room, I  sent off a dozen emails.  This was cause for a celebratory mojito at the marina bar. 

I found a lovely spot at the bar and decided to take a reading break with drink in hand.  But it wasn't quite working, my iPad was turning into a mirror.  I tried moving to a few different places.  I almost found one awkward position, but I kept seeing my face or the sky reflected in the iPad.  I finally gave up trying to read, and took this picture instead.  No trick photography.  I don't even know how to use Photoshop; I’m more of an excel nerd.  It does makes for a pretty awesome picture, so not a total loss.