Mayday! Mayday!

The other day at work, I was toying with the idea of doing a “day in the life” series of photos. Taking my camera with me during the day, and snapping a shot every so often, then presenting them to the world. I hadn’t decided quite how to do it — a picture an hour? Every half hour? — but I’d been letting it rumble around in the back of my brain since then.

To my amusement, though, today Dyanna pointed to the Mayday Project, which is essentially exactly what I’d been turning over in my brain, only somewhat organized and loosed upon the blogosphere at large.

So, I’ve signed up, and on May 10^th^, will be documenting my day hourly.

Hrm. This means I’m going to need to actually leave the house that day, doesn’t it? Something tells me a series of fourteen pictures of my computer monitors would be pretty un-exciting…

Stay out of Photoshop

An L.A. Times photographer has just been fired after it was discovered that the photo he submitted and ended up getting placed on the front page had been digitally manipulated. The retraction in the L.A. Times is unusually good, too, including both of the original images, and the final altered image that was printed.

(via MeFi)

Nighttime beauty

Nighttime flower

Trying to find something nicer to look at than the constant barrage of news, I spent some time last night experimenting with taking nighttime shots of some of the flowers in Freeway Park by my house. Since using the ‘macro’ (closeup) mode of my camera gives it a very shallow depth of field, by shooting at night I was able to get nice deep blacks behind the flowers, while the flash brought out the colors of the petals. On some of the shots you can see the evening dew hanging off of the flowers.

I think they came out fairly decently, myself — but feel free to judge for yourself!