Assignment for Dailyshoot 152 on 2010/04/16: “Bright, vivid colors can draw attention and add "pop" to a photo. Make a photo that has vivid colors today.”
These are on a little traffic circle near us, tended by a volunteer; it'll be lovely into autumn but perhaps never again this colorful this......
Assignment for Dailyshoot 133 on 2010/03/28: “Sunday Challenge: Backlighting in a scene can create drama. Make a photo with interesting placement of backlit subjects.”
Somewhere in Edinburgh, off toward Holyrood. Actually taken on Saturday if you want to be pedantic, but I spent all day Sunday on an......
Assignment for Dailyshoot 125 on 2010/03/20: “Liquids can be still and reflective or in motion and chaotic. Make a photograph of something liquid today.”
The foam on the surface of the fountain pool in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery. I'd been planning to shoot the fountain and I got a good picture too, but this was more......
Assignment for Dailyshoot 124 on 2010/03/19: “Change your angle today. Make a photo from 1' (30 cm) off the ground and post it.”
This is how you get around the Google campus, when you can get one. The amount of time saved going from building to buildng is really remarkable. The basket is for your computer, of......
Assignment for Dailyshoot 116 on 2010/03/11: “"Rules" can be stifling if taken to extremes. Break the rules today with focus, composition, etc, and see what happens.”
This is Railspur Alley on Granville Island; the picture exhibits no fidelity whatever to the actually fairly interesting albeit soft shades of this much-patched......
Assignment for Dailyshoot 114 on 2010/03/09: “Most of us enjoy some symmetry in our lives. Look around for it today and make a symmetrical photo. (via @melhutch)
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This was symmetrical on its architect's drafting board and then in its physical form, before the process of accretion......
Assignment for Dailyshoot 113 on 2010/03/08: “Take care of the Monday blues by picking up your camera. Make a photograph dominated by the color blue.”
This is a backwater of a backwater, the marina by Granville Island. The color is from the sky not the......
Assignment for Dailyshoot 110 on 2010/03/05: “Food engages all the senses. Make a photograph of food that causes our mouth to water or pucker. Get the viewer engaged.”
The hungry 3½-year-old had just got her stubby little fingers on the muffin. I had to shoot......
Assignment for Dailyshoot 109 on 2010/03/04: “Striped patterns have a natural pattern that catches the eye. Find some stripes today and make a photo.”
I couldn't find any stripes that were interesting enough without some sort of overlay. This is just some corrugated......
Assignment for Dailyshoot 108 on 2010/03/03: “Weathered objects have a lot of character: cracked, rusted, bleached, etc. Give us your best weathered shot today.”
Bark of a tree in the playground of an elementary school.
Taken with the......
Assignment for Dailyshoot 107 on 2010/03/02: “Find out what those buttons and dials on your camera do. Play today! Try a new setting and make a photo. (via @dibytes)
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The rainbow was unearthly intense at sunset after a day of rain. I'd been dorking around with the camera for today's assignment, shooting ordinary trees with the camera in "Scene mode" (I don't know what that actually does) and at ISO1600 for extra oddness. Remember, this is a point-n-shoot (Ricoh GX100), so that ISO is way out of bounds.
I got a chance to stroll around and try to capture the rainbow, but I couldn't get the wires out of the view and for the first few, I accidentally left the camera all whacked-out.
Well, and just possibly I may have accentuated the effects a bit in......
Assignment for Dailyshoot 105 on 2010/02/28: “Sunday challenge: Make a photo that invokes or communicates happiness to the viewer. Make 'em feel it, not just see it!”
After the Big Game, we went out for a walk in the 13°C sunshine, in several ways a golden afternoon. Main Street was full of cars honking, flags waving, people howling.
This group were celebrating the best imaginable way, with high-energy street......
Assignment for Dailyshoot 104 on 2010/02/27: “The horizon can be a strong composition element. Make a photograph that emphasizes the horizon today.”
It's an artwork called "Vectorial Elevation" that's been showing here in Vancouver as part of the Olympic festivities, ends tomorrow. Really quite impressive even when shot with a wet camera on a rainy......
Assignment for Dailyshoot 102 on 2010/02/25: “Negative space can be just as important to a composition as your primary subject. Explore negative space in a photograph.”
An interior view of the same djembé that appeared in Dailyshoot 87. We're looking up into the bottom of the drum; the white area is the drumhead, just outside of which I placed a scary 1500-watt (!) halogen......
Assignment for Dailyshoot 101 on 2010/02/24: “There is often a conflict between traditional and contemporary. Make a photo that shows this tension. (@melhutch)
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In the background, a recent 1080p 42-inch LCD television. In front, one of its predecessors. The idea was Lauren's not......
Assignment for Dailyshoot 100 on 2010/02/23: “Monochrome photos don't have to be the result of processing or desaturation. Find a monochrome composition and shoot it. ”
The assignment said MONOchrome but I'm a computer programmer and we're prone to off-by-one errors, so I claim this falls within the spirit of the thing.
As I was lining up the picture, an elderly lady said: "Cherry blossoms in......
Assignment for Dailyshoot 99 on 2010/02/22: “Squares and grids surround us in our built environment. Focus in on some squares today and make a photograph.”
Found in the back alley, weathering gracefully. Probably not good for much any......
Assignment for Dailyshoot 98 on 2010/02/21: “Backgrounds are tricky. They can make a subject stand out or distract from it. Make a photo with a good background today.”
Last year's witch-hazel leaves remain attached, as usual. No harm done I guess, but every spring I spend a few minutes giving it a......
Assignment for Dailyshoot 97 on 2010/02/20: “An old adage in photography says if you want to improve your photographs, move closer. Fill your frame today!”
Skip Niklas Edin throws a rock late in Sweden's February 20th match with the United States. Sweden started the day 3-1, the USA 1-4, but the USA pulled out a razor-thin......
Assignment for Dailyshoot 96 on 2010/02/19: “Symbols can be simple, ornate, plain, or colorful. Make a photo of a symbol that represents or stands for something else.”
The glyph is on the side of a van, advertising its recycling-and-junk-removal function. This seems to have become a big business in every city; maybe we should buy less......
Assignment for Dailyshoot 95 on 2010/02/18: “Frames outline the focus of a subject. Make a creative photo with natural framing: windows, doors, trees, borders, etc.”
Just a few houses west of our place as we were walking down for an evening out; tapas with good people here from out of town, then off to an evening of music. So, this one is full of memories and......
Assignment for Dailyshoot 94 on 2010/02/17: “Fragility conveys tension. Make a photo today of a person or object in a fragile state.
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The crocuses, collectively, aren't fragile at all; they'll be coming up here in spring long after I'm gone. But this year's plants are about done. Some have fallen (look close) and the ones that still stand are showing tatter. They've got a couple more days,......
Assignment for Dailyshoot 93 on 2010/02/16: “Things are always a-changin'. Make a photo that offers a snapshot of something being built, fabricated, or assembled.”
I stopped by a construction site today and took a bunch of carefully-composed photos of the sun slanting through the framing and shadows cast on concrete. A couple are pretty good. Then I came home and found......
Assignment for Dailyshoot 92 on 2010/02/15: “It's Presidents Day in the U.S today. Make a photo with a patriotic theme for the country you call home.
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With the Olympics on, virtually every store in town has some flavor of patriotic merchandise in the window. The relationship with the goods on offer can be difficult to......
Assignment for Dailyshoot 91 on 2010/02/14: “Sunday (Valentine's Day) challenge: What is love? Make an interpretive photo today. Keep it clean, people. :-)”
On the bus coming back from the traditional corny-but-fun parade for Chinese New Year, which falls on Valentine's Day this year.
I'm on single-Dad duty this Feb. 14th......
Assignment for Dailyshoot 90 on 2010/02/13: “Odd or even: Compose an image with an odd or even number of subjects today, and make a photo.
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On the Web at The Basketball Jones Show. We caught him as part of the Olympic festivities at the Granville Island Market.
He's as much a comedian as......
Assignment for Dailyshoot 89 on 2010/02/12: “Continuing the Friday fun theme, make a photo that goes with the title of a book you've read.”
The reference, of course, is to the title of Michael Lewis' (typically) excellent baseball......
Assignment for Dailyshoot 88 on 2010/02/11: “We often get stuck in a rut of always zooming to the longest focal length. Break out today by making a wide-angle photo.”
Cambie Street, waiting for the Olympic flame to go by. The turnout was magnificent! This is one of the few blocks that wasn't......
Assignment for Dailyshoot 87 on 2010/02/10: “We all have some sort of hobby or favorite activity. Make a photo that shows something you enjoy doing. (via @azmichelle)”
Imported from Guinea in West Africa by Russell Shumsky. It sounds excellent but could sound better still were I a better and more dedicated......
Assignment for Dailyshoot 86 on 2010/02/09: “Franz Kafka said "Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old." Make a photo of something beautiful today.”
Opening of the First Duino Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Mark Doty. I saw little real-world beauty today, but this qualifies, and I did photograph it off the......