RWS: a Picture a Day - 2008

Self-Portrait Tuesday: Where I’ve Been For the Last Week Edition

were you missing me?

Self-Portrait Tuesday: Lifeguard on Duty, SIR!

This is my ALL TIME SUPER MOSTEST FAVORITEST SNL SKIT EVER! EVER!!!1!11!!!!

Watch it Here

I laugh at it every time.
“There is nothing! to see! HERE!”
“It’s not your time yet!”

16-35mm @ 16mm | 1/200 @ f/3.5 | ISO 400 | Off-Camera flash, bare, bounced off mirror on camera right at 1/16th power
pp: none

Self-Portrait Tuesday: I love my fan Edition

Note: Hi. I live in Arizona. It is summer. In Arizona. Summer. Actually, we are in the middle of a HEAT WAVE. As if it wasn’t hot enough here, right? And guess what happened yesterday? Well, Sunday night, really….

The air conditioner crapped out.

Note2: I love my fan. And how it blows my 154 degree hair.

Note3: Air conditioner is now running and blowing nice cool air. I love my home warranty. I also love that the ac decided to die BEFORE the warranty expired next month.

Self-Portrait Tuesday (on Thursday!): Defying Explanation

Note: I understand that MAYBE you would want me to tell you WHY. I DO understand that. But sometimes the WHY is just…..complicated. So I leave you instead to figure it out for yourself exactly what possessed me to place a cat on my head.

Note2: Some of you have expressed worry over the contest posted yesterday being a Last Hurrah before I shut down the blog. Nope. No worries.

Yeast Killer

Note: I know. This is creepy. LOL
Note2: But I didn’t wait for the warmed mixture to cool down enough before I added it to my yeast mixture and I fried the little boogers.

Note3: Whoops.

Luggage Gnome

Note: I have the awesome opportunity to take a fun trip to see a fantastically wonderful friend who has done nothing but make my life richer and more wonderful (you can send me the money for that line later, Fud.)
Note2: See that bag in the middle? the camera bag? That is the only thing in my house of any value. So unless you want to steal the $90 TV we got from The Wal Marts or the cheap Ikea furniture, you’re better off robbing someone else’s house while I am gone. Unless you want an apple. Or some brownies. Because I was STOOOOPID and made a batch of brownies on Monday for Peanut’s birthday and they are only half eaten and it’s SAD. Very SAD. That they will sit there and be neglected and get hard and stale while I am gone. I will come home to petrified brownies. That I will then have to throw away. So if you’d like a brownie, feel free to break in. I’ll even let you take the $90 TV just for kicks.

Self-Portrait Tuesday: Itchy Trigger Finger Edition

I’m so FIERCE.

HA!

My mom is looking at this and thinking “I don’t know what she’s doing but what I DO know is that she probably didn’t CLEAN ANYTHING, no matter what this picture shows her doing….”

And she’d be right. Sort of. I did clean. Eventually. Two days later. Whatever.

Self-Portrait Tuesday: You can Never Wear Too Much Green

Self-Portrait Tuesday: Size 12 is Not Fat*

Note: When I got married I was a size 3. Not by choice, it’s just the size I was without having to work at it. Then I had two kids and suddenly, size 3 was just no longer an option. And then, my (then) husband went and found another girl, another girl who was much skinnier and much bustier and much younger than I. It made my self-image take a huge hit. It’s taken me almost 3 years to really come around to the fact, but it’s very true. Size 12 is Not Fat. I am 6 feet tall. Size 12 is Not Fat. And neither am I.

Note2: *Also the title of a great book by Meg Cabot.

16-35mm lens @ 29mm | 1/200 @ f/3.2 | ISO 250 | Vivitar 285 off camera fired through umbrella from in front of camera to left
pp: Softy Bleach at low opacity, black and white home brew, Pioneer Woman’s Quick Edge Burn, resize and sharpen for web

Self-Portrait Random Day: Blue Steel and Fun with Flash

Note: Just playing around with the trying to get flash stuff to work. This was taken in my laundry room, which is such a tiny tiny room. 580EX on camera fired and bounced off of white cabinets over the washer/dryer and Vivitar 285 snooted on 1/16th with Neutral density filter fired at wall.
Note2: Blue Steel? Who? haha…..stupid movies…..

16-35mm lens | 1/200 @ f/9.0 | ISO 200, 580EX TTL exp comp of 0, Vivitar 285 Full ND filter 1/6th power
pp: I love the healing tool. Almost as much as I love the liquify filter. I bow down to the photoshop people who invented both of those.