It was a hairy week...

Well, I'm late again.  It was a hairy couple of days- I had to get our roof replaced in between rain storms and the constant noise from above was nerve-wracking!  I don't like spending that much money all at once and even though the company did a great job, it will be awhile before I get over last week.  After the roofers left, my dog finally slept and allowed me to take her picture.  The last two pictures are from opposite ends of the age spectrum:)

                                                            

Seeing the light

Thanks for this challenge, Mark- I rarely light candles and forgot how relaxing candlelight is.  My mom used to serve dinner by candlelight when we were young and meals were fun and a little mysterious that way.  I found a wrought iron candelabra at the thrift store and usually pull it out at Halloween- it has a little gate in the middle and some of the cups are a slightly bent so it has a macabre element to it.  I also put it on a glass table next to a glass door to try to capture some reflection- don't know if it's reflection or the limitations of the camera that created the blue wisps- a ghost image of some kind...!

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Steamed

I let this challenge get the better of me...  Tried early to take pictures of my husband's coffee cup (I don't drink coffee!) and could not capture steam.  I read online about using a dark background and back lighting, but still had no luck- boring pictures with no definitive steam.  I don't like to give up, but this was beyond the capabilities of my little camera and the little section of my brain devoted to the technical side of photography.  I was able to capture on shot of steam after it decided to stop roaming and settle down...

Smiley faces

Good morning to my fellow photographers!  I'm smiling as I write this because it's a beautiful day and I'm getting the assignment posted on time!  This one was a very good exercise in seeing- truly looking at what is all around to hopefully discover the "face"- and it was harder than I thought.  I found myself really focusing on what I was looking at through the viewfinder and all the elements in the frame. It also made me think that the television ads that featured pictures of faces in inanimate objects had a little help from the computer...

                                                        This one's obviously a set-up!

Night visions

This week's assignment was as challenging to me as last week's, but in a different way, technical, rather than mental. I did stray off the auto setting, and learned a little more about my camera, but still have trouble getting the flash to illuminate properly. Most of my pictures I took without flash, but when I did use it, I discovered it was more of a tool to create questions rather than answers!  How do you like my picture of a black cat sleeping in a dark closet?