Summer 06/14- 06/20 (Mel)

Summer = Sun = Sun Glasses = Cute Japanese kid wearing his mom's sun glasses

Summer 06/14 - 06/20 (Sara)

When I think of summer, I think of a few things:

Flowers

Dogs

Being able to leave the office and catching the sunset:

and the softball:

PS. ISO6400 is incredible with the sun goes down.

Frames May 05/31 - 06/06 (Sara)

I don't know whether the interest is dwindling in photography or if this topic was just really hard.. Even mine is really late, but it's okay!

Anyway, I had taken a picture, but I like this one better. My friend since middle school just recently got married and I had the honor of being in her wedding. Of course that means I couldn't take pictures, but Jeff did a good job taking what he could (I asked him to take a shot of them hugging the parents, and kissing). I was going to crop out the heads of this picture, but I like how they are framing Tinah & Tom (the head on the far right is a little too close but whatever):

Frames May 05/31 - 06/06 (Mel)

I took this picture in a Chinese Traditional gardens through a Window.

Black and White 05/17 - 05/23 (Josh)

I went to Puerto Rico for an extended Memorial Day weekend for a quick vacation. One thing I forgot to check beforehand and that we then found out was that it's currently the rainy season. Luckily our activities didn't exist around nice weather.

However, the two times that we walked around Old Town San Juan it wouldn't stop raining and thunder-storming. This ended up giving me some cool skies to work with, as in this one taken in one of the numerous park squares scattered throughout the fortified old city.

Black and White 05/17 - 05/23 (Sara)

I usually love taking black and white pictures! I don't know what happened these past 2 weeks, but I may end up editing this post later on in the week. Anyway, this past weekend, I was running, and it was so hot that I ended up getting easily distracted by numerous things. One thing that distracted me was this enormous dandelion looking plant

I wish I could have taken a better picture of it because it was enooooormous (the fuzzy part was like 3 of my fists) but I only had my iphone w/ me because who wants to carry an 8 lbs weight when running in 90 degree weather? Anyway, I might go back and take a walk w/ my camera to get this big boy again... :)

Black and White 05/17 - 05/23 (Pere)

Last night whilst watching the Lakers game, Maraea and I noticed that outside we had a bit of a show in the form of an electric storm. We decided to put the tripod up and try some luck...

It took many attempts and a few "Ohhhh almost!"







But we finally caught one!

Black and White 05/17 - 05/23 (Jaime)

I've been taking pictures around the house now that we are in "decorating mode". I liked this one when I turned it into B&W.

Black and White 05/17 - 05/23 (Mel)

I set my camera to black and white this weekend and took several pictures

This is a Chinese doll found in a souvenir store and was my favorite

Fruit 05/10 - 05/16 (Pere)

Ups sorry for the late submission :(

And yes Josh tomatoes are a fruit! Look it up!

Progression in the life of a tomato, since our house has become alive with plants I decided to capture a tomato in four different stages, growing from seed, green, Cherry and plum and in ketchup form

Fruit 05/10 - 05/16 (Mel)

For this week, I visited the fruit shop in front of the office looking for some exotic fruit to photograph but I couldn't really find anything that amazing so here is the pic of the fruit store and people buying fruit

The most interesting thing I found was this fruit-store-cat that likes to sleep in a box of Mangoes.

Fruit 05/10 - 05/16 (Sara)

Did I get the days wrong? I typically don't post first (because of laziness) and copy the title from someone else, but this time no one posted yet.. oh well. I'm sure if it's wrong, Josh will fix it.

Anyway, I didn't really know what I wanted to do with this week's topic, and I didn't want to take a cliche picture of a still-life fruit painting. That being said, I still feel like my photo is a bit uninspired and boring, but whatever. Jeff and I didn't know his countertop was this reflective!

Office 05/03 - 05/09 (Pere)

I was meant to fix the picture but run out of time :-(

So the idea was to get a proper Panoramic of my work area, the idea is there the execution not so much...

Office 05/03 - 05/09 (Sara)

Woo sorry for the late post. It was caused by a combination of laziness and falling asleep early. Anyway, I think the best part about our office is that though there are those anti-social cubes everywhere else, our department has awesome team-friendly cubes. Unfortunately... they ceiling was too low for me to get a good shot of them, so alas, I have taken pictures of other things. I love the open hallways of our department. I'm a little creeped out by the woman in the picture bursting from the white-ness.. but I think I was too lazy to take the shot again (or photoshop her out)

When walking around to other parts of the floor or building, I often lose myself in how confusingly the cubes are set up, but I feel our department is very well laid out, which is something I fear I will miss when we move to our new building. But oh well... though our floor will be set up like every other floor, we get new expensive furniture that has never been used before! And 2 magnetic dry erase boards which I can put my fun hand-me-down icanhascheezburger magnets c/o Grohnklesticks:

Office 05/03 - 05/09 (Josh)

A case of insomnia got me to drive around DC tonight looking for some good pics. I was looking for an old government office building with cool lighting.

However, instead what I found was a new office building with a really modern lobby with great lighting in a little sketchy part of DC around the Greyhound bus terminal that they're trying to revitalize with office buildings and condos, by the New York Ave Metro stop.

1100 First Street NE

Office 05/03 - 05/09 (Jaime)

Considering that I'm going to be busy this weekend I wanted to get my submission in early.

Aside from "Michael Scott", this is what i think off when i hear office...

Can you believe I've had this exact same phone for the last 10 years?

Trees 04/26 - 05/02 (Josh)

Not all trees make it through a harsh winter if they cannot continue to nourish themselves at a slow rate. After this crazy winter in DC, there are quite a few trees around the office that didn't survive that struggle. This picture is in memory of those who didn't make it, and their brothers and sisters who honor them by going on.

Trees 04/26 - 05/02 (Sara)

This past weekend, we went to Jeff's college friend's wedding. These days, the trend seems to be to use branches in your centerpieces, and I kind of like the look! It adds a depth that I think can't be achieved with flowers alone:


It's not a tree by itself, but the branches had to have come from somewhere!

Trees 04/26 - 05/02 (Mel)

Not quite a tree but the laves of a tree.

A red tree in spring.. I dont know anything about trees but I was surprised by the fact that it was not green like the rest of the trees.

From MicroTography

Trees 04/26 - 05/02 (Pere)

Very depressing this morning with the dark clouds and all wet from the rains the night before... the trees outside the window