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Welcome to my gallery of photography projects. My wife and I started taking photos regularly in February of 2002, with the intention to take a full years-worth of weekly photos. We accomplished this 52 weeks later and completed our initial goal.
We attempted to continue completing photo projects, but the desire to do so waned and so we stopped taking regular photos. We still strive to take photos to stay creative, and when applicable the new photos will appear on this page.
Most of the photos were taken in order to help us better learn our camera and different photography techniques. I hope you will enjoy what you see, and comments are always welcome.
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May 27, 2004
A trip to the local Riparian Reserve in Gilbert led us to taking this simple macro photos. Not the best work, or the most creative, but good nonetheless.
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May 20, 2004
I wish I had enough of these little Pixelblocks to finish the sculpture when I took these shots, but the shots of the individual blocks are pretty good. I did eventually get enough blocks to finish my Floating Cat, as well as add two clouds.
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May 13, 2004
Definitely slummed this week with a sole photo. It is a single shot of Tumbleweed playing amongst the sheets.
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May 7, 2004
Nature photos always seem to be easy to take. This week was no exception, and any chance I saw to take photos of the environment I did.
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April 29, 2004
Garbage, trash, refuse: all words that essentially mean junk. This week's adventure in photography had me visiting a condo development and wandering inside one of the big construction dumpsters. Fairly interesting shots this week.
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April 23, 2004
I usually don't like photos of myself, and add to the fact that I needed to take this project's photos myself didn't help matters. I'm not too happy with the results, but at least I took them this week.
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April 15, 2004
This past week included Easter Sunday, so it lent itself well to taking photos for this week's topic of Photography. Having my cousin's daughters in Easter dresses also didn't hurt either.
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April 9, 2004
Well Jessica and I have started taking weekly photos again. This time our source of inspiration is the website Photo Friday. We took this week's topic and ran with it. I particularly like the moon in the clouds shot.
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February 9, 2004
I was quickly running out of ideas and desire to take weekly photos. We still had this "final" week to go to complete the year-long project, and so I picked Western. Little did I know that getting those photos was gonna be difficult, or so it seemed. A simple trip to the Gilbert History Museum helped solve that problem.
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February 2, 2004
Coming into the home stretch of hitting a year's worth of photos, here are 5 simple photos.
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January 26, 2004
We visited Jessica's home state of Michigan this past week and since it's winter, the place is covered with snow and ice. So this week we made a point to take ice cold photos.
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January 19, 2004
We needed a quick topic this week because we have a trip planned for Michigan. So Jessica set the subject as our cats. So here are 5 simple cat photos.
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January 12, 2004
I initially was thinking of complementray colors when I came up with this project, but it oddly enough switched to contrasting colors. The simpler topic allowed us to focus on quality pictures, and not struggle so much with finding complements.
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January 5, 2004
First project of the new year, and it deals with something old and something new. Some of my photos don't have a strong relation to something new or old, but I like the shots so much that I've made them fit.
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December 29, 2003
The point of this week's project was to more or less take sloppy photos. I did so because even bad photos can turn out to be good. Our photos this week are examples of that.
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December 22, 2003
This week we were to take photos of the sky. I took the title into the concept even further by showing things reaching for the sky.
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December 15, 2003
I had a great creative idea for this week, but slacked off until the last minute. Oh well, Jessica's gift wrapping photos are more along the idea of what I had originally wanted with unique objects that are gift wrapped. Mine are still good photos nonetheless.
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December 8, 2003
I kept my shots of this week's topic, "It's Shiny", simple by simply shooting whatever I could think of that had a shine. Since it's the holiday season, we had our tree and ornaments to help me out.
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December 1, 2003
I wanted to take 5 photos in progression so that we could tell a simple story using photos. I ended up telling the story of the cats and their desire for canned cat food.
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November 24, 2003
Yet another day trip led to to us taking photos. This week I took photos of Jessica, as she was all alone on South Mountain.
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November 17, 2003
I assumed that since Jessica and I live in Arizona, getting shots of desert wildlife should be a piece of cake. So we headed off to the Desert Botanical Garden in Tempe, and took photos of everything.
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November 10, 2003
This week the project was to find five subjects that had the letter "N" in their name. I struggled on my own to come up with "N" related words, and instead had to break out the dictionary to find my inspiration.
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November 3, 2003
Halloween was upon us this week so simply enough, we chose to take scary and spooky photographs.
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October 27, 2003
This week was really simple with us taking five photos of the same object. Jessica took five photos of a piece of pottery, and I took five photos of a paper witch that is animated.
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October 20, 2003
I felt in order to get us taking photos more casually, more often, I'd make the project this week to take at least 1 photo for each of the seven days in the week. So while they might not be the best, planned photos they like all photos still have value.
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October 13, 2003
This week Jessica decided we should try to work with a layout predicament that is usually something to steer away from. Taking photos of groups of fours often isn't as pleasing at groups of odd numbers, or lesser objects. So while Jessica focused on the rose gardens at Mesa Community College, I simply chose whatever I happened to see.
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October 6, 2003
While it seemed hard for us to have fun this week, the cats on the other hand had a blast this weekend while we let them go outside.
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September 29, 2003
Since we have a child coming our way in the next year, Jessica thought it would be good to find any hidden household hazards that might be a danger to the baby. Unfortunately there wasn't much of a danger in our house, so some of our photos are alike.
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September 22, 2003
We tried another simple topic this week: have the photos center on objects of the same color. I chose orange for my photos this week.
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September 15, 2003
While my wife and I have been mostly concerned with her progressing pregnancy, we still had time to take this week's photos. This week we kept it simple to the subject of "negative space".
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September 8, 2003
This week's topic of pretty much photoshopping, without using PhotoShop, seemed to be a creative project. However, once I started to take photos with items composited in the frame and only in-camera, I noticed that for the most part my creative juices ran dry. Most of my ideas didn't work either. However, I think some of the shots are funny in their own in-joke way.
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September 1, 2003
Well I definitely slummed on this one, but at least the photos turned out decent. Maybe next week's will be more interesting.
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August 25, 2003
We spent the later part of this week in a hotel room in Scottsdale, AZ. Since I normally take my photos during the day on weekends, my shots this week were taken near the hotel pool. I tried to vary the types of texture that I found.
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August 18, 2003
This week's topic was stumping me all up until Sunday. I finally just dug in and started taking photos, and I'm impressed with the final results and they might be ready for real magazine covers.
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August 11, 2003
Even though the base description for this week's contest was to use at least 3 different light sources in different matters, I decided to use only different versions of daylight. My photos range from direct daylight, sunset, mid-day, through a skylight, and under cloud cover.
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August 4, 2003
I was hoping to take a more varied range of photos taken from the eyes of the cameraman, but my first person shots only ended up being adequate. Jessica's are interesting though.
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July 28, 2003
I tried to keep the themes of my photos this week based on mostly 80's songs. I also attempted to try a similar pose with different lighting to see how the photo was affected.
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July 21, 2003
I thought the concept would be an easy project this week, but it ended up not being quite so easy. I'm not terribly happy with my photos in relation to the topic, but I did get some good shots of some hot dogs.
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July 14, 2003
Heights were the topic this week. Jessica's photos ended up primary dealing with our trip to Las Vegas this weekend. My photos mostly deal with the the cats and a ladder. Hopefully they aren't too tall for your viewing pleasure.
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July 7, 2003
This week's topic dealt with corporate logos. So Saturday night, both Jessica and I went out to take some guerilla photographs of corporate identities.
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June 30, 2003
This week there was no particular project for the photos. Since my wife had surgery this week, she could not participate if there was a topic. Still I felt the need to continue weekly photo postings, so I present 5 shots of some of my action figures.
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June 23, 2003
Jessica's idea this week was an experiment in black and white photography. The photos had to be taken by the B&W feature of the camera, and the colors of the subject should be recognizable by the subject itself. Hopefully, the colors of the objects I photographed can be imagined through the B&W photos.
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June 16, 2003
This topic of mine seemed to be confusing to some. I essentially didn't want the subject of the photos to be completely within the framing of the photograph. Therefore, part of the main subject should not be seen in the photograph and is cutoff by one of the four edges (frames) of the viewing area. Therefore, you break the frames by having the subject bleed out of a the view.
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June 9, 2003
Jessica's topic this week was shadows. I decided early on that my shots wouldn't just be the cast shadows of objects. I wanted to get shots that were like the first shadowed shot of Cheetoe's face.
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June 2, 2003
I wanted to visit more motion and first person shots with this project, but the final results seemed to differ from that initial thought. Too bad most of my photos were taken inside after sundown and therefore poorly developed.
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May 25, 2003
Jessica's idea this week was to focus on nightime photographs. Even though I initially struggled to take my photos this week, I made a trip to the local elementary school to take my weekly shots. Not shown in the photos is the aftermath of an egging that must have been done sometime this holiday weekend, as the egg smears on the windows were all dry.
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May 18, 2003
Even though I had a bunch of creative ideas for this topic of mine, I am not happy with my final photos. I couldn't quite get into the mood to take the shots I wanted. I had hoped to put a little more far east spy feel into the project, but unfortunately I only ended up with boring, simple spy shots. At least it's good to know that Jessica's photos turned out well.
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May 11, 2003
This week's concept were "sweet" things. My interpretation included standard sweets such as candy, but also the enjoyment of the cats looking out the window and the blossom of a hibiscus.
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May 4, 2003
An idea that had been stewing around in my head since the start of these projects was to take photos that showed something from the past. The shots should just give off a feeling of being old and aged. Hopefully our shots this week do indeed give off that feeling.
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April 27, 2003
This week's project involved the first use of a camera feature/filter. We were to take shots using the "solarize" feature. I tried to vary the clarity of my shots using a manual focus, and I like some of the final results.
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April 20, 2003
My hope with this week's topic was to take more shots during the week, versus just the weekend. To get a little bit more free and comfortable taking photos whenever and wherever. So what better way to do that then to take shots of meals and snacks.
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April 13, 2003
This week we were to take some photos representing us and our likes. I chose to show some of my personal items, my personal tastes, as well as one of my everyday tasks.
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April 6, 2003
More experimentation with the simple things. It was time to further break out from the normal straight-on, horizontal photograph and try something new. This week we were to take shots of any context but to take it in an odd and interesting manner.
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March 31, 2003
This week's topic was yet again a simple concept that wasn't as easy to complete. Nonetheless, our task was to take 5 different photographs and concentrated on each of the following 5 colors: white, yellow, red, green, and blue. My angle on the concept was to focus on different colored signs.
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March 24, 2003
Since previous projects have all roughly involved close-up shots of single objects, this week's attempt was to go the opposite direction and try to take wider angled shots.
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March 17, 2003
This week's subject was to pick an adjective, or multiple adjectives, and take photos that related to that desired adjective. We had some rain the weekend of our shots so my initial idea was quickly replaced by something much more simple.
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March 10, 2003
Yet another experimental subject from yours truly, I came up with the wacky idea of photographing vegetables and fruit doing everyday human activities. Our photographs are getting better and better with each project.
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March 3, 2003
Jessica decided that we should to take extremely close up photographs of everyday objects, and in the process make it difficult to decipher what the object is. We were to take 2 photographs of each object, an obscure one and one that showed the entire object for reference.
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February 24, 2003
After a false start with the initial concept of "shadows", the topic was quickly changed to "motion". As before, take 5 unaltered photographs that give the feeling of motion.
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February 17, 2003
The second experiment had the concept of reflections. Again, the idea was to take 5 shots however the photographer chose to as long as they were about the concept and didn't have any digital enhancements. Digital manipulation was expanded to include rotation, in addition to cropping and scaling.
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February 10, 2003
This was the first experimental photography project that the group of us attempted. Given less than a week to complete, the context of the "competition" was to take 5 shots of UFOs. Taking the idea in any way that the photographer would like, all the shots had to be done in camera. No digital altering was allowed other than to crop the picture to the desired size.
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