This week’s photo is in response to the ‘Square Portraits’ challenge on Photocritic.
Rules: The picture has to be perfectly square, has to be in black and white, and has to feature yourself.
… Go!
So, here I am:
I also took this as an opportunity to update my ‘About Me’ page with the image, and have changed all the text on there.
The last ‘photo of the week’ for 2006. I’ve made it to 10 weeks, 42 more and I can call the initiative a success.
This one is of our Christmas tree, and was taken on the 26th. This was a long exposure, using a tripod, with the lens stopped down to f22 to get the little star bursts on the lights. (Maybe I’ll pick up a starburst/cross screen filter for next year.)
This is the Christmas Eve edition of Photo of the Week. This week’s photo was taken tonight in Bowring Park, St. John’s. I didn’t take this one hand held–I used my father’s monopod… I just might have to pick up one of those sometime, if not that, maybe a gorillapod. There are a few more in the St. John’s album under Christmas 2006.
The ducks say ‘Merry Christmas’.
This week’s photo is of a house on ‘Christmas Tree Lane’ in Palo Alto (usually called Fulton Street). If you’d like to see more Christmas lights in Palo Alto, I have an album of them, I already trimmed out the too blurry ones (I took all of these handheld–no tripod) these are the ones that remained, I think they came out pretty well.
This week’s photo was taken from a lookout spot in Foothills Park in Palo Alto. My friend Erin took it upon herself to show me this place (as well as Russian Ridge a bit further up) as a good place to take my car for a run and to get a nice view. I’ll have to do it again on a clearer day, because I’m told you can see the entire Bay Area from up there.
This week’s photo is of Lytton Plaza in downtown Palo Alto. The giant egg in the photo is a 7-foot tall sculpture. It’s made from recycled circuit boards and has technology-related phrases on it. It’s supposed to honour Palo Alto’s role as the birthplace of Silicon Valley.
This week’s photo is of the new Camaro concept car. The San Francisco International Auto Show finishes up today, so I made the trip to San Francisco yesterday to check it out. It was a good show, lots of new and exotic cars out there on the floor. I got a bunch of photos of the event, they’re all in their own album.
Alright, I made it to four photos, hopefully this’ll soon have enough momentum to keep going without me having to make a conscious effort each week.
This week’s photo is of the garden in front of Google’s Building 46. I saw the scene while I was in a conference room in the building this week and decided that I had to come back and photograph it some time. The green, yellow and red trees lined up and against the blue sky […]
This week’s photo is of Mountain View’s Charleston Park. The park is right next to Google’s main campus, and you can see Shoreline Amphitheatre in the background.
Today I took the “Outdoor Sculpture Walk” around Stanford campus, taking pictures as we went along. I got a couple of decent shots, but none of them were of sculptures. My pick for this week is a high-speed shot of a fountain (to freeze the drops of water) with a student reading a book in front. I think it came out pretty well.
As a note, this picture was cropped and […]
