101: New Generation

After work today I headed to the Boo Williams Sportsplex to take headshots and team photos of the New Generation Boys Basketball Team. Jocelyn, my fabulous coworker, asked me to come back again this year to take the photos for them. (Her son is a player on the team...he's the one holding the ball.) The Sportsplex is a really nice facility and I even got to see Boo Williams himself.

Many thanks to Jocelyn for having me back and letting me practice my photography skills!

100!!

It's hard to believe that I've been doing this project for 100 days now. Time really does fly. For those of you new-comers to the blog I started my Project 365 after being inspired by a high school friend who started her own. To read about the project, you can visit: http://photojojo.com/content/tutorials/project-365-take-a-photo-a-day/

I really have enjoyed the challenge of finding a photo each day and learning more about my camera and about photoshop. It has been a really nice outlet for me creatively and I look forward to continuing.

Tonight was the final Crew Leader show of the 2009 Orientation season here at CNU. (Crew Leaders are CNU students that assist the students here for orientation and they also put on a very creative show of well-known songs/commercials/etc. that are rewritten to be about CNU and being a first year student.

My favorite (and probably the favorite of most people) is a take-off of Bohemian Rhapsody that involves students having parents that don't want them to go to college and just aren't ready to let them go so they attach long ropes to them. It is a hilarious sketch. (Hopefully we'll get a video posted so you all can see it.) Anyways. The photo of the day is from that particular sketch. Gold stars to all.

P.S. New summer layout in honor of 100!

99: Painting

Today I got to venture into the world of painting when Eddie, Terry and I headed over to the new East Area Office (on campus) to help the director of housing get things painted. (He had been giving up his own time because they don't have it in their budget to pay any of his employees overtime to get the work done.) I really enjoyed myself and found the painting to be relaxing. The back RA work room has lots of colorful rectangles and reminds me of Mardi Gras. I captured one of the places on the wall where all four colors come together...this is before the final edging was done.

98: Bubbles!

I went down to my parents' house today to spend some time with them and to celebrate my mom's birthday. We enjoyed a good day spent playing Ladderball, eating pizza and watching old home videos. Eddie and I got my mom (as part of her birthday gifts) a GIANT bottle of bubbles. She is a well-known fan of bubbles so she took the bottle out for a test run right away. As I found out, bubbles are hard to capture well on film. (I think I will have to work on this at some later date.) I do, however, enjoy this picture taken in front of their house with my mom blowing bubbles with my dad looking on.

96 & 97: Thursday and Friday

Thursday:

Our laptop was in the office so I didn't have access to the internet at home to post so here it my Thursday photo. I took this shot of the bright yellow Mountain Dew while doing drink duty during one of our orientation sessions.

Friday:

I actually noticed this shot earlier in the week but didn't have time to stop on my way into work to take it until this morning. The sprinkler/misters were on by one of our campus buildings and there was a rainbow in the water droplets. I'd like to try it again with my "real" camera to see if I can get a better result.

P.S. Happy Birthday to loyal reader Karen Schroeder....my mom! She's 19 today. :-)

95: Night at the Movies

I headed out to the movie theater to see The Proposal with some of the nice ladies from work. The movie was pretty hilarious and I really enjoyed it. One of my favorite moments was when the teenagers behind us thought that during the movie when the computer made the dial-up noise for the internet that it meant that the computer was broken. Poor kids...never had the pleasure of experiencing or remembering the joys of dial-up internet!

Sidenote: Congrats to my brother-in-law (and fellow photo-blogger) Kevin on his graduation from high school today! Wish I could have been there to see it!

94: Ah, Warwick

Warwick Blvd has been a sea of these orange construction barrels for quite some time. It is an adventure that nearly requires an off-road vehicle to make your way around it with the constant bumps, potholes and dips. I was at the stoplight waiting to leave Harris Teeter and noticed the usual barrels. I hadn't gotten a photo of the day so I snapped one quickly. Hardly inspired, well composed or really that interesting so I played with another Photoshop function for practice. I chose the Plastic Wrap effect because it seemed appropriate for the plastic barrels.