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

Trees 04/26 - 05/02 (Jaime)

Being homeless this past weekend, we stayed with some friends out in Hamilton, VA (near WV). There were plenty of trees around, and i picked the following two to showcase:

The last one is on top of a hill, so it looks pretty cool, and kind of creepy in the winter when it has no leaves.  

Spoons 04/19 - 04/25 (Jaime)

Sorry I haven't posted in the last couple of weeks. Getting ready for yesterday's move was taking up all of my time.

It was a very busy day yesterday, the movers came at 9 am and left at 9 pm. We now live in an empty house until Thursday and then we're homeless for a week.

You may be asking, what does this have to do with spoons? Well, the movers took everything, so this is what we were left with for breakfast this morning:

Plastic spoons for a week!

Spoons 04/19 - 04/25 (Sara)

Wee, spoons. The challenge with a topic like spoons is that though spoons are easily accessible, I felt like I needed to find a way to make a spoon (or make spoons) artistic. I had trouble with this, so I'm not sure what the response will be for my spoon pictures. I noticed that a spoon kind of looked like a flower petal, so I made a flower out of the spoons:

Then, just for kicks, I did a close-up on the detail on the spoons. Why did I choose a green background? Partially because it's my favorite color, and also because it's symbolizing the grass which the flower grows in?... haha:

Spoons 04/19 - 04/25 (Mel)

I went Hiking to a tea plantation this weekend but before I left I took one of the spoons from my apartment just in case...

I tried several things with my spoon. First I tried an animated GIF because I wanted to do one for a while.



I also took pictures of the spoon in different places


and different poses.


These are the ones that I liked the most.

Spoons 04/19 - 04/25 (Josh)

Spoons? Ok, cool.

I wasn't in the mood to make a spoon sculpture, or filling a spoon up with something (since I don't really cook). Instead I thought I'd go with the sub-theme of "SPOONS IN ACTION!"

So I grabbed my bike, my camera and headed down to the National Mall. After getting into a collision with a novice biker and de-skinning my left hip/cheek (if only the theme this week was skin), then I went down and forgot that they were having concerts on the mall with Earth Day Week. As you know there are a lot of food and DC souvenir stalls next to the museums. So it was time to stalk the tourists and welcome them to DC. Since it was a nice and warm day, ice cream was on the menu. Unfortunately most of them were on sticks or in a cone, but I found some people using spoons!

After stalking about 5 different people with their spoon usage, I decided to merge two pics of the same lady. She was by far enjoying her ice cream the most! And also, she definitely noticed me by the third shot as I tried to pretend that I was taking pictures of the National American History Museum. I was pretty sure she was about to walk over to me and say "wtf?", so I bolted. But I think I got too good ones here, as I was trying not to make her the focal point of the photo, but rather an "action of spoon usage" that accompanied the picture.

Macro 04/12 - 04/18 (Jeff)

Guys, Sorry I am late as well with the post. But I got to play around with the Macro setting, and really had some fun with it. Please Excuse my lateness. But I really am fascinated by this method of photography and will use it later on, probably in more posts! Enjoy!I took this picture just trying out the macro feature. Really fun Stuff!

Macro 04/12 - 04/18 (Sara)

Hey guys!

Sorry for the late post! I took my picture on Saturday but you know how lazy Sundays go (true that, DOUBLE TRUE)

Anyway, my first shot were these azaleas bushes outside Jeff's house, and unintentionally, I got some nice bokeh! Jeff thinks these bushes are annoying, but I think they're pretty and don't appear to have annoying pollen like easter lilies.

I took the shot from an upward angle, so the bokeh comes from the light coming through the trees.

On Sunday, I got to spend about 3 hours at a Barnes, waiting for Jeff to finish golfing with some church friends, and found this totally awesome book!


(GLEE!)

Here are some more macro shots I took. I try to submit photos to the Pioneer Woman Photography Assignments because she's my favorite food blogger, so some of those pictures are older (namely the hamster and non Miso cat pics).

Macro 04/12 - 04/18 (Josh)

As with what Mel stated, my first urge was to take of something of nature. However, I also wanted to try something different. After the crazy B-day party for Raul at our house on Saturday night, all day Sunday I was pretty much just cleaning up. When I was doing so, I found on my little "stuff from India" section in my house, three little Indian God's that girlfriend from high school, Sabrina, bought me at this little Indian store in Paris. The tallest one (from left: Ganesh, Vishnu, and Shiva) are only about 1 inch tall. So what I did was in the background when I was in India at Neha's wedding, I bought two stone statues each about 8 inches high of Lakshmi (left) and Ganesh (right) holding up a marble slab painted and mounted inside of a frame. So the focus was on Vishnu in the middle and I tried to use the depth to make the statues in the back look really big, even though they were only a few inches taller. I hope I made Sara proud.




On a side note, I'm annoyed by how Shiva is angled too much, but I was still hungover when taking this, so it was the best I could do.