D-166 Happy Father's Day

What a busy but great weekend.
Spent some time with David, my dad and a little time with my father in law (very little), well have to make up for it later. I am so lucky to be surrounded by such wonderful men! Hope you guys had a wonderful Father's Day!

Today's challenge on the daily shoot was
"Make a photo that creates depth. Draw the viewer in by choosing an interesting foreground, middle-ground, and background."
for some reason I had a difficult time with this one. I spent a very long time trying to find something. The almost last picture of the day worked for me.



You have the foreground - bushes/leaves
the middle-ground - the dried trees with the birds on them
the background - the building. All in complete focus.
I added a texture and converted to black and white to add to the eeriness of this building. It's a new construction but the old dried trees around it, the swamp and the black birds that surround it sure give it an old feel. The building is still under construction.

Dave and I took a nice long walk in the woods at Lemon Lake and I found these wild berries in there.


Read both in the manual and in my book but I don't have them with me to document the numbers.
Images viewed: cruised on flickr for a bit today.

D-165 What are you reflecting?

We reflect what is in us and what is around us . . .

D47 Architectural Tuesdays

I took the day off of work today, after working out this morning David and I went to the Chicago Car show. Very interesting. We picked some of favs and pretended on which ones we'd be taking home.
Then we went to the Casino and had some awesome sea food. While we were there we played on the slot machines (the penny slots) and I won $15.00! Woohoo what a way to end the day.
David taking in the Sky Line


David's Dream Car, Chevy Transformer Camaro


A girl can dream . . .


but this is what's in our budget - LOL


These are not product images - the reason I only took the front of the cars is because it reminded me of the commercial with all the "faces"

33/365 Architechtual Element

All Saints Church is a Cathedral Style. I don't have any of the data that goes with this church but it is the second time I take pictures of it. I love it's Gothic Cathedral Style and I'm pretty sure it's part of the historical society's listing. I'll get back to you on that. What do I do when I get nothing but grey skies? I add texture and color. I'm still learning to blend so they are not perfect but they are pretty dramatic.


This one is also in Hammond but this one is for sale.


This one is just for laughs: Ghetto Hood Prop. Seriously?


After work I ran 4 miles today.

Architecture

I work In Hammond Indiana and I've long admired these old looking buildings. Today I did a quick research and found that this building, is called the Seifer Building. It was constructed in 1925 and was the Seifer retail furniture company. It's built in the Colonial Revival style. The detail in the facade is what is lacking in the newer construction.
It's located on State Street Commercial Historic District. It's located in what used to be the heart of Hammond's Business District.

The Indiana Historical Society rates this building as in "O" for Outstanding, "which means that enough historic or architectural significance that it is already listed, or should be considered for individual listing, in the Nations Register of Historic Places."
*Lake County Interim Report 1996







It should be noted that this building along with several other "Historical" buildings have been purchased and are being remodeled by a local Baptist Church.