Day 21/Jan 21: Bubbles

I know it's a day late, but I've been very sick. Ugh... I really don't like colds. LOL Yesterday, while giving my baby boy a bath, I decided I needed to take pictures of something, so I decided on the bubbles. Funny thing is, I didn't realize there was a photo challenge to shoot bubbles. LOL Funny how things happen. :0)

 The turtle thermometer looks happy as a lark floating around. LOL

Pretty color tones to make the bubbles stand out.

My son's toys peeking out of from under the bubbles. (It's the rim of a sand pail, in case you're wondering.)

Day 20/Jan 20: The Sun

I was going to post a picture of my son's new haircut, but after he took his nap, it looked crazy! He gets such awful bed head after his nap. Maybe tomorrow I can get a shot of it... or find inspiration to shoot something else. Having this cold is bringing me down a bit. Blah.

Well, it's the sun... sort of. So, nothing special about this picture. We bought this really cool wrought iron sun from a Moroccan vendor during Weihnacht Markt (German Christmas Market). The center feels like plastic, but it's actually leather that's been stretched VERY taut. In the back is a holder of sorts where you're supposed to slip a lightbulb attached to a cord and it lights it up. We haven't done that yet. LOL

I've taken pictures of it various times at various angles, but the straightforward is what I'm posting today. Maybe later on I'll do a post of the side view.

Day 19/Jan 19: Rings of Relief

I have been going to physical therapy on and off for more years than I care to share (due to a herniated disc). Last year, I re-injured my back and started going back to physical therapy. I really like my physical therapist (he's German) and he has different approaches to helping out my back, one of which, looks like a torture chamber from back in the dark ages (but, in a modern, metal and screws type of way). LOL ;)) I asked him the other day if I could take some pictures of it since a few angles struck me as really cool.

The first one is one of my favorites, since it's centered and I like the way the ring looks. The other 2 show different focuses at an angle. I had MANY other pictures of more parts, but this was the angle that initially made me want to take pictures of it. :0) Welcome to a part of my weekly torture...ahem... healing therapy. LOL

By the way, zero editing (except for adding the watermark).

Here's the 1st picture. The focus is on the ring and I did a pretty straightforward shot.

In this one, I angled the camera a bit and focused on the front ring. I really like how the metal shines in these pictures.

And finally, I changed the focus to the hooks in the back that hold the ropes. 

Day 18/Jan 18: Ramstein Village

Sorry for the late post. Was feeling pretty sick last night and really tired. Still under the weather (my son's cold is starting to go away, but mine is a little worse). Ugh. Hopefully, we'll be better soon. Anyways, I snapped these shots on my way in to drop off some paperwork at my physical therapist's office. I used the scene setting on my camera and chose the sunset option. It turned the sky a nice color. No editing (other than the watermark was done). :0)

Day 17/Jan 17: Decisions, decisions.

Ok, so today was an absolutely GORGEOUS day here in Germany. I actually carried my camera around all day and I had so many shots of so many different things to choose from, that I'm literally overwhelmed with choices! Ugh! I was struggling so hard the passed few days trying to figure out what to shoot, and today, well, I had too many things to shoot! I even got some nice ones of the sun setting with my camera phone, but I'm not even trying to look at those right now for fear of being completely overloaded with choices. Ahhhhh!!!! Decisions, decisions!!!

With that said, I made some collages of some black and whites of my son and I'll probably end up uploading those to my fb page along with many other pictures I took, but to choose one for this blog, I decided to go simple. So, here goes.

In this first picture, I decided to take my son to the park (since it was such a nice day and we've been cooped up since he's had a cold). Mind you, we only stayed out for less than 10 minutes because it is cold and I don't want him to get worse. I changed it to black and white and I LOVE the angle of this shot. For some reason, it makes me nostalgic, thinking about myself as a child, and thinking about how my son is growing so much, so fast. And the way the sun rays were shining down on him, made me think to myself how I always pray and hope that the sun will always shine on my son and illuminate his way in life.

So, here it is!

Love that shot! On to the next one.

So.... I didn't realize how far passed my son's nap time we were, so he got very cranky, very fast, so we got into the car and I gave him a cookie (he was also hungry, Bad Mommy! Don't worry, he had lunch soon thereafter and promptly passed out in the car and proceeded to take a 3 hour nap at home!) While he was munching on the cookies, my hubby came over and was trying to calm him down a bit. Since they were hanging out, I took that opportunity to snap a few shots of a berry bush that caught my eye on the way back to the car. Now, I have the full color picture, but I love, love, love, this focal zoom effect with the black and white background and had never tried it until now.

I hope you like it!

Day 16/Jan 16: Giraffe in a Tree

My husband loves the African and Mediterranean themed home decor, so one of my favorite figures is this beautiful giraffe we have. I placed him next to the windowsill where I have this cute curly leaf plant and it looks like the giraffe is out in the wild eating some leaves. It's too cute! I used macro mode and had a good time getting the details of everything. And, for another day, Yay! to sunlight! :0)

Day 15/Jan 15: Hearts and Sunlight

Sorry I didn't post yesterday. I was feeling very blah and went to bed early. I did get this shot in during the day, but never got around to doing a little editing and post it. So here it is, a little late, but what can you do. I really love the reflection. There are actually 2 reflections of this heart and crystal window deco we have. I really enjoy the sunshine we've been having the passed couple of days! Too bad we don't feel too well to truly enjoy it.

Day 14/Jan 14: Dinosaur Party

So, today we went to a dinosaur birthday party and I had fun taking tons of pictures (all candid) and since it was indoors, had to just use auto pics due to lighting issues. It was fun not to think about everything and just snap shots of the kids playing. I don't want to post pics of my friends kids on here since it's a public site and I don't have permission, so I'm uploading a picture of the cupcakes (which were so yummy!) and one of my son that I did some editing and I love the green balloon!

Day 13/Jan 13: Sunset and German Field

The sun was actually shining today, so on my way home from my appointment I snapped a few shots of a field near our house. But I also couldn't pass up a sunset view behind our house. So I decided to try to make a collage of the pictures.

Day 12/Jan 12: This little piggy...

So, my son really loves when we play, "This little piggy..." Soooooo, while he was sitting in his Tonka truck (he just loves climbing into it, but struggles getting out), he was pointing at his toes and wanted me to play with his piggies. :0) I couldn't resist snapping a few shots. I had some more of him in the truck, but I really like this close up of his toes. :0)