Random Snapshots

shake it!

I downloaded a cool iPhone app the other day that turns your iPhone photos into a Polaroid-style photo.  It's nothing fancy, but it gives a little "kick" to the photos.  I find myself taking more photos with my phone since I got the iPhone a year ago.  I've been playing with it for a couple of days and really like it so I thought I would share. 

The app is called Shake It! and it was .99.  I don't have a link, but if you search the name it will come up. 

You take your photo right within the app and then literally shake your phone to "develop" the photo.  Kind of an unnecessary, but cool feature!  Comes up in a square polaroid with a border which saves right to your phone. 

Here are some examples from the past couple of days:

Me, lounging before bed.

 Adam, not wanting his picture taken.

 My mid-day snack today -- an "apple pear" and raw almonds.  Note to self: buy more "apple pears" ASAP!  They are delicious.  

I don't have much to blog about this week.  I've been busy, but just with boring stuff -- work, school, etc.

I started the 365 Challenge again this year.  I tried it last year, but fell off the wagon pretty quickly.  I think it's because I tried to take a self portrait every day last year and that got old.  I usually take a self portrait of my outfit so 2 per day was not fun.  This year I'm just taking a photo of anything.

Here's what I got so far for January 1-8.

 

You can follow my 365 photostream here if you're interested -- 2009.365 

Happy Friday!

weekend wrap-up

I took a few days off of blogging to enjoy my 5 days off.  I am really sad that it is Sunday already...back to work tomorrow.

Did you have a nice Christmas?  I hope so!

We sure did.  I didn't take many photos which seemed nice at the time, but I'm sure I'll regret that soon.  :)

Christmas Eve was really great.  We had Jessica and Steve over for dinner and drinks.  We had a lot of drinks.  Polished off 2.5 bottles of wine and 2 bottles of cheap champagne.

They slept over too which was fun! 

Christmas was low-key for us, as usual.  Except for the presents.  We both went kind of overboard with the presents for each other.  We've been doing that for the past couple of years.  I know people say they aren't into the presents anymore when they become adults, but we are.  We love buying and hiding and suprising and opening on Christmas morning.  I think we would do this anyway, but it's kind of become our "thing" since we moved out here and have been spending Christmas alone.

Here's our living room shortly after opening gifts:

  

The rest of the week/weekend has truly been the laziest experience for both of us.  We've done a lot of staying up really late and sleeping in, a lot of video games playing, watching TV and movies, sitting by the fireplace, knitting, finishing, blocking and starting, reading a lot of books and magazines and just relaxing in general.  It's really been great!  I'm going to have a hard time going to work tomorrow morning.  Adam is off until Friday.     

I'll blog about a few of the amazing gifts I received this year over the next few days.  I'm off to enjoy what's left of my Christmas vacation now!

randomsnapshots

I didn't have the chance to put together any favorites for this week.  I'm sharing a couple of photos instead. 

For our anniversary (9.25) we went away for the weekend.  We drove down to McMinnville, OR and stayed for the weekend.  Our main destination was Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum.  Better know as the Home of the Spruce Goose.  You can read about the museum here and about the Spruce Goose here.   

That plane is the biggest thing I've ever seen.  The museum was basically built around the thing. 

I didn't have a wide enough angle lens to get the entire plane in one shot so here are 3 that I took.  This should give you an idea of the size.

 

  

Here is the nose as seen from outside the museum:

  

I need to edit more of the photos, but I haven't had the time.  This was my first weekend with my S5 so I went nuts clicking.  :)

happy weekend! 

gray

gray morning:

 

grey outfit:

 

I'm not a fan of these dark, grey mornings we're getting in the Pacific NW.  It makes it so difficult for me to get out of bed.  I am not a morning person at all, but can really fake it when it's light out.  The dark mornings kill me though.  We're supposed to have a week of sunny afternoons, but I'm not sure if that makes up for it!  The mornings are still tough - dark and cold.  

I think I need some more color in my fall/winter wardrobe.  I don't get very excited about fall/winter dressing like I do in the summer.  I'm always cold so I find that function wins over form.  I find it hard to put outfits together when I'm only thinking about how cold I'm going to be at the office.  I think I need to find some warmer layering pieces that still have some shape.  Maybe I'll hit up the mall this weekend.  As always, suggestions are welcome.  :) 

little planes

There is a little airport about a mile or so from our house.  It butts up right against a huge parking lot for the bus Park N Ride.  The parking lot gives you a really good view of the runway and I've always thought it would be a great place to take some photos.

On Saturday we took the camera over there and hung out waiting for some little planes to land.  Unfortunately we lost light pretty quickly and I had forgotten to put the tripod in the truck.  I also could have used my telephoto lens.

But I was able to get a few shots.

 

  

And check out the fall colors...

  

I hope we have a clear, dry day this weekend.  I'm going to take some more gear over there and hang out waiting for little planes.  Planes are my favorite photography subject and it's certainly plane-heaven out here in Seattle. 

Us.

I found these fotos on my computer last night while I was searching for something else.  They were taken at a park in June on a super sunny, windy day.  Really blown out, from my little point & shoot.  I fixed them up by running a combo of actions and textures.

I like these.  We don't have enough pictures of just us.  I need to set up my tripod more and stick my arm out more for these extreme close-ups - haha. 

Take a picture of you and your spouse/significant-other this weekend and post it to your blog.  :)

Random catch-up.

I never posted a review of the Foo Fighters concert that we went to a couple of weeks ago.

It was awesome!  More than awesome really.  Everything we expected and more.  Dave Grohl did Everlong acoustic.  I could have left after that part and been totally fine!  I love Dave Grohl.  He's hilarious and hot.  :)  There was actually a whole acoustic set in the middle of the show which was really good.  I love acoustic and was hoping they would slip that in somewhere.  They played for a long time - several hours.  All good stuff.  We can't wait to see them again.

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The buttons are on the Hexacomb Cardigan now.  I just need to block it.  I'm not sure why the directions suggested to block it AFTER it was put together.  I think I'll use my steam iron and see how that turns out.  I'm currently plotting my next cast-on.  Something with one of these two yarns that arrived last week.

I scored a good sale at Little Knits thanks to a tip off from Lynne.  A bag (10 skeins) of each. 

I have a few ideas for projects...

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We had a pretty nice weekend.  Relaxed, shopped, hung around the house.  Today we had lunch outside at the Ram in Kent Station.  It was such a gorgeous day out.  Perfect for eating outside.

Hope you had a great weekend too!    

How does this suit look?

Maybe I'm headed for a new career?

:)  Too bad I'm afraid of heights!  HA. 

This past Saturday Adam and I went to the Museum of Flight to see a special Mars exhibit.  This astronaut has always been there and we've passed it several times, but never taken a picture.  I wanted one of Adam, but he wouldn't put his head in there so I did.  Cracks me up just looking at it!