A very good week

It has been a very good week.  Work has gone well, I'm finished year end accounting, month end reports and all accounts have been analyized, ready for the audit.  Seven working days to complete it all, not bad at all. The healthy eating has been going well, drinking lots of water and on Friday I got back on the scale and lost a whole pound.  Whoo hoo, but at least I didn't gain a pound.  I'll continue on and I'm sure some day I'm sure I see positive results.

Last week did bring some good news.  I joined a group on Flickr, 52 in 2014 where each week has a theme and voting for your favorites  Week one's theme was Abstract and my Bubbles placed in the #3 spot.

Week # 2 ending, today, here's my entry for Bokeh.  This was taken with a lens baby composer and 4x macro filter.  The shaped bokeh is done with the lensbaby bokeh kit and a tin foil background.

It's been nice getting back into photography.  The past few years I've done a 365 with it slipping during the past year.  With family, work and life getting in the way I hoping this 52 group will get me shooting again. I hope you all had a good week and next week is even better.  Thanks for stopping in.

Lensbaby Pansies

Wake Up at 5:30 am

Post daily photo

Shower

Eat Breakfast

Leave for work at 7:00 am

Work

15 minute break at 9:15 am

Work

Lunch break at noon

Work

15 minute break at 2:15 pm

Work

Leave work at 4:30 pm

Arrive home and start supper

Husband home at 5:45 pm

Supper at 6:00 pm

Process photos, watch TV

Bed at 9:30 pm

For the past four years that was my daily routine.  Very structured and organized.  My work in accounting was also very structured and creativity during the day was really something that did not happen.  Bad things happen when one gets creative with accounting.

When I got my first DSLR, 3 years ago, my photos were also very structured.  As I had taken a few courses in photography, I knew what DOF was. f2.8 gave out of focus photos, but when you spend good money on a sharp lens, why would you want to use anything but f14. To me f2.8 was something you used when you needed more light.  My photos had to be sharp and in focus all the time.  A photo copy of reality is what I was after.

A couple of years my husband gave me a Lensbaby Composer for Christmas and I called it my “play” lens.  Great for shots of the Christmas tree and lights but I didn’t use it much.

During the past couple of years, being part of the Daily community on Smugmug, I began to appreciate f2.8.  Now, the majority of my photos are taken at f2.8 or f4. My new job is less structured.  I still don’t get creative with the accounting, but there are no buzzers to tell me when to take a break and when to eat lunch.  I’m starting to feel a little less like a trained mouse.

Sunday morning I woke up to a beautiful day and I put the Lensbaby on the camera and decided to play with the pansies in the yard.

 

My first thought was that the rain drops were ruining the photos and then I began to see everything a little different. I added a little star from the bokeh kit to see if I could catch a few out of focus drops.

And came across the wet leaves of a daylily.

Again back into the house to add a macro filter to the lensbaby.

It’s now Tuesday and I still have the lensbaby on the camera.

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