Category: Indoors

I was playing around with a watercolor app called Waterlogged. It is supposed to turn photos into water color paintings……this is one of the few that actually turned out all right. I have learned that simpler subject matter works better in a water color.

This is known as Cardhalla found every year at Gencon right at the front entrance. It is a charity event where a city is constructed out donated trading cards. Anyone can stop and build as they like. Near the end of the convention attendees can throw coins at it and destroy the city and all money collected is then donated to charity.

Turn it up!!!!

Stars and Stripes forever.

Getting an oil change and having my breaks checked. It is a nice clean waiting room with free Starbucks coffee and comfortable chairs and great service. They make waiting ok.

Art is in the eye of the beholder. I’m thinking beach house for this section.

My seat was halfway to nosebleed section. I didn’t feel that it was as small as the camera makes it look.

Metal cast toy truck made some time in the 1930-1940’s.

I’m not sure if this was a vase or something else but it was pretty from the top. It looks like a flower to me.

I didn’t color eggs for Easter so I managed to find these at an antique mall. I wonder if the Easter bunny got lost delivering eggs this year.

When I was a kid I learned from other kids on the block about making prank phone calls. This is before caller ID and you just dialed a number at random. There are a few standard ones like “excuse me but is your refrigerator running? Then catch it!” Another one that I didn’t understand as a kid was “Do you have Prince Albert in a can? Then let him out!” It makes so much sense if you know that it is a type of tobacco.

That is a close up guitar strings.

One of my favorite hobbies is photography. I love going out for a day and shooting a lot of photos. If you look you can see my reflection of me taking the photo.

Marbles are nice and hard and so pretty to look at.

So does this map provide proof that the world is round or flat?

In my hand I hold a true evil genius from childhood. Simon Bar Sinister evil villain to Underdog and one of the best bad guy names.

It is just a collection of coins saved from different countries.

Anyone want to color?

With all the architectural choices in a concrete world, I chose a staircase inside the School of Architecture building at Ball State University. It seemed like an appropriate choice to me.

This is a cast iron pan up close and personal.

For all you youngsters out there who don’t know what these are……they are Records. They are the original CD……wait you don’t know what a CD is? That’s right everything is digital these days…….I feel old.

I tried to hang the spoon from my nose but failed miserably.

To be honest I don’t know what this is supposed to be. It is someones class project I saw in the hallway of the Architecture building at Ball State University.

I imaging it has a backstory about how we ruined our planet with pollution and maybe nuclear war. The surface of the Earth is no longer habitable and we have to create a new wold deep below the Earths surface in order to stay warm and survive. At least in this story Artificial Intelligence hasn’t taken over the world and is trying to kill us like in the Matrix or Terminator.

Inspiration is a tough one. One reason I am doing a 365 day photo challenge is to help inspire myself. I am sure you have noticed that I am behind on blogging my days. I got stuck due to a lack of inspiration on some of the topics. How do you photograph inspiration when you don’t have any inspiration and that is something you are hoping to find.

Ever wonder what your taste buds look like? You can stop wondering, they may be tiny but they are sure mighty in the wonderful world of flavor.

My Precious

One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them: J.R.R. Tolkien said it best

What could be more standard for date night then popcorn and a movie. So glad they have comfy reclining assigned seating now.

When I was a girl in my teens I was lead to believe from movies and TV shows that romance is candle lit dinners with flowers and chocolates. Sipping fancy wine in front of a roaring fire while laying on a fur rug in front of it. Well I’m not in my teens and after being married for 10 years now I can proudly say that romance is the little things that you don’t ask for. Coming home from work and finding a hot dinner waiting for you ready to eat. A clean kitchen with the dishwasher filled and ran already so you have something to eat on or with. True romance is more about respect and appreciation then flowers and candy.

Year of the boar was difficult. I read up on the zodiac info about it and tried to think outside the box. In the end all I could find was some pigs with wings. It may not be a great subject but I do like the shine on them.

Superbowl Sunday, didn’t really care much for who was playing. I had it on in the background and watched a few commercials. Instead we learned how to play a new deck building game. I rather enjoy the deck building games where we work cooperatively against a villain. It is friendlier to not competing against each other that way if we win we both win.

I spy Woodstock!

This photo would have been so much easier to do on my manual camera. I am re-familiarizing myself with my digital camera and finding the right settings in the menu took a while. I guess that is a good reason to know where you put your manual. After multiple tries with F stops and shutter speed combos I finally managed to get a nice blurred pendulum.

If you are unsure of what you are looking at it is a necklace. I love the extreme depth of focus on this photo. It causes most of the image to be out of focus drawing your eye right to the little blue ball. All of the blurry sparkles of light in the background seem to dance around the focal point and make it shimmer.

Yes this is a photo taken of the TV screen, but darn it if that isn’t cold. Thanks global warming for a harsh reminder that it is January and still winter.

I feel silly for using ice cubes when it is winter and there must be something frozen outside. I was the frozen item outside trying to find a good shot of something frozen so ice cubes it is.

I have to admit I myself have problems with the statement as I am sure some of you do as well. I was actually told this by “a friend” but not sure why. What does the handwriting of a serial killer even look like and how would she possibly know? I think the statement would be more entertaining if it were “I have been told I have the handwriting of a CEREAL killer”. I do like a tasty cereal for breakfast so that would be more accurate for me. I have no idea what my handwriting actually says about me except it is sloppy and unrefined. That I am fine with, as I am some what unrefined.

Tea Time.

Today Wicket is looking rather stylish in his Muttley ball cap. He is of course is a long time fan of the show. If you are wondering where you can get a Hawaiian shirt like his, it is a hand made one of a kind made in the 1980’s. I guess that makes it vintage now.

Dreams are something we want or desire weather consciously or subconsciously. What do little doggies desire? Speaking strictly for Butters it would be a 10 pack taco kit from taco bell. Ten delicious tacos is what dreams are made of.