Day 21 / 365

Bokeh progressively zoomed in with several stops over the duration of the exposure.

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5s @ f/4.5 ISO 200

Day 20 / 365

One week ago, the chicks at my parents' acreage hatched. Also, the two week old bunnies just opened their eyes. An overly excited Jack was introduced to two chicks and a bunny.

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** chosen by National Geographic's Daily Dozen on June 24, 2010**

1/100s @ f/13.0 ISO 200 using a 55-200mm Nikkor Lens

Day 19 / 365

This evening I was working on a photo book for my nephew as a memory keepsake of their vacation in Canada. Here is what the cover looks like.

Day 18 / 365

Centennial Place at night. The colour spots on the columns are light reflections from the parkade across the street.

3.0s @ f/13.0 ISO 200

Day 17 / 365

I know I know! It's only day 17 and already I am resorting to boring old flower photos. I have to say all of the rain for most of project 365 so far has been rather uninspiring. Not only does it make it difficult to find things to photograph, but I also cannot photograph anything outdoors while it is pouring, since I don't have a raincoat for my camera. I have wrapped it in a plastic bag when I am walking outside, but I don't think a photo of the inside of a plastic bag would interest anyone. With today's photo, I played around with some editing settings to at try to inject at least some sort of interesting perspective. I do like the juxtaposition of the blooming bush branch against the old rough square brick wall.

1/25s @ f/5.0 ISO 200

Day 16 / 365

One of the things I wanted to try during Project 365 is out of bounds (OOB) photography. What I like about this type of editing technique is that the subject pops out of the frame and thus appears to be in 3D, even though the 3D effect is just optically created through erasing part of the image and adding a white frame that has perspective to it. The photo I chose for this is one of my all time favourites of my beagle Jack - I took it last fall while he was sitting on a hay bale and the wind was blowing in his ears as if he was flying.

Edited with Photoshop CS4 to create out-of-bounds effect.

Day 15 / 365

The leafs of this Oregon Grape plant are so waxy and shiny, which is best highlighted with water droplets. I was also drawn to the variety of colour in the leafs.