My 365+1 post again

I finished taking the photographs for the 365+1 challenge today.  For February 4 it was Listed and for today it was In a dish.  Fun prompts to work with.

Yes we have a few properties listed in our neighbourhood.  Not too many people looking though at the moment.  Rather than putting 3 individual pictures here I decided to put them together.

And my favourite subject to take pictures of - my cat.  This time the prompt was in a dish.  And yes the cat is in the dish alright eating his treats I had put in there,  Yes it is his dish so don't worry I won't serve any humans from this dish.

It has been awhile!!!

I see I was here last on January 26th.  I did take pictures but just have had enough time to post them.  I will be working on a scrap page to show my January pictures so they will show up in there.  Now we move on to February.  3 days done in February already but I have been keeping up with our daily prompts.  I really like this 365+1 concept and I sure hope I can keep it up throughout the year.

For February 1 we had the prompt  -  With a fast shutter speed.  After reading up on this and talking to my husband it basically is 'freezing' the frame.  This requires a fast moving object like a waterfall or something but I choose birds.  I took many and many pictures and the following 2 are my favourites.

One Hoary Red Poll and the rest are Common Red Polls

All Common Red Polls

February 2 was kind of different and took some thinking.  -- Makes my heart sing --
Well yesterday this guy made my heart sing.

Our cat Knorrepot getting a chin rub and a sun bath at the same time.

Today was Women's Heart Day so the prompt was -- Wearing Red --  No red for me today but I did order a T-shirt with Red print on it.  I will use this photo as my POTD.

This T-shirt is THE T-shirt for Load 212

Keeping up - More photos

Here are some more of the photos I have taken the last few days.  Again these are for the 365+1 photo album.  Yes I hope to, by the end of this year, have 365+1 photos to put into an album to show my 2012 year.

The subjects these time were:  Nails, Duplicate and Rust.

Any one in need of nails?

This is a picture of just a few of the nails we have at the house here.  My husband had the frame of our house build about 30 years ago and has since been finishing the inside on his own.  He is almost done but there are still a few things left to finish.  So we still need to keep a supply of nails on hand.

Treats for us and the animals

 Yes we had to go shopping for treats for the deer, cats and ourselves.  As you can tell the deer eat way more than we do but I do hope this will last us for the next couple of months.  But the way they are eating and gathering around our bird feeders I doubt that it will be.  We now get 7 deer coming to feed on a regular basis.

Rust, rust and rust.

I believe this rake use to be green but I may be mistaken.  Yes rust is a normal occurrence here because we live close to a lake and that brings lots of moisture in our air.  Also it does not help when you leave your tools sitting outside of course.

More 365+1 photos

Some more of my 365+1 project photos.  It has been a very cold week here so photo taking was limited to the house more or less.

These are my last POTD

 This photo has the subject EARLY.  Yes it is very early to see these tulips pop out of the snow.  I do have to admit that I cheated a bit but it looks real right?

Here is my photo for the subject My Little Word.  Which is DO for me.  And I had to input my data for the Feederwatch Canada project still.  It is done now and we are almost ready to do our next count for this week.

This photo has the subject "What is for Breakfast"  it  shows you what I eat every morning for breakfast.  The biscuit is part of the prop so it is not a regular item for my breakfast.

The breakfast was the subject for January 22.

Test Post

This is a test post as I just followed a tutorial on how to make your own hand drawn frame.  Now it is not the best frame but I have to figure out how to save it for the web more than anything.  The tutorial was for Photoshop but I was able to do it all in Photoshop Elements.

I saved it as a PNG file to give it a tranparent background.  Now white was not such a smart colour to choose for the frame so I will have to go back to the drawing board and change the frame colour.  Watch for my next frame to show up sometime today.

So Far - So Good

Yes I am doing good so far.  I have been able to keep up with the photographs and the subjects every day.  And even posting my photographs here has been pretty regular.  I have to say I am learning lots thanks to Katrina Kennedy's daily posts.  She always has that extra explaining her Inspiration of the Day.  Some photographic background as well which has been very informative.  I hope that by the end of the year I can see the difference between my pictures from now and then.
The 'inspirations for today were:  High Noon and Black and White.
First High Noon.

As you can tell it is 12 o'clock.  Now this could also be 12 midnight but I promise I would never take a picture at midnight unless it was New Year's Eve.  

And this is the Black and White picture.

This is a regular visitor at our house these days.  She comes with her baby  to eat .  She eats all the bird food from our feeders and also the oats I throw out for the deer to eat.  This year we have had up to 7 deer eating at the same time.

I don't know if I like this picture better in B & W or in colour.

Same picture as above but in colour.

I think she is so cute with all the seeds sticking to her nose.

Another day with 365+1

Here we are again with some of my POTD for the 365+1.  Todays inspirations were Torn and Tattered and Gennifer Bursett's inspiration was Your Camera for today.

I took a different look at the camera.  Did not take a picture of my camera but one of another item I use as a camera.  My scanner.

My other 'camera'

And now for Katrina Kennedy's inspiration Torn and Tattered.  My DIL asked me to fix this pair of pants for her a while ago and have not done so as yet.  But they sure make a nice photograph for the Torn and Tattered subject.  Oh btw these are new pants after they were washed once.

Torn and Tattered

Not too many pictures today as I am trying to use my Wacom tablet and everything takes me at least twice as long as it does using a mouse.  They say that I should use the tablet for three days or so without ever going back to the mouse and I will be a pro on using it then.  We will see.