So, this photo is probably my “interesting” to date.  I was lacking inspiration for today’s 365 picture and almost forgot about it until I started reading Understanding Exposure before bed.   I’ve been going slowly through this book and the chapter on “Implying Motion” caught my attention.  When the 4th of July rolled around I wanted to try one of those cool, trendy sparkler-spells-a-word pictures, but never got to it.  Our sparklers were duds!  So tonight I picked up Josh’s iPhone & it has a cool app that makes the flash a flashlight.  And this is what I came up with!

It’s good to challenge yourself, right?

I took my camera to the high school girls bible study that I help lead last night, hoping to get my photo of the day.  I see these girls every Wednesday night and hadn’t blogged about them yet, so I thought I’d give it a try.  While we were waiting to start, I had Kelsey help me with trying to capture motion.  Kelsey takes photography in high school, so between the two of us we thought we could make it work.  We tried with this little jet plane.  First we tried having Kelsey roll the jet across the counter.  I couldn’t get the settings just right, so next we tried having the jet stay still & me moving the camera from left to right.  The above photo is what we came up with.  Pretty fun I think, even if it is out of focus.

And this next photo is a bonus!  Last night was also Trish’s birthday (she helps lead the study too) so the girls made her a birthday cake.  As you can see I didn’t expose for the cake, just the sweet faces that made it….

Photo:  John Waire Photo.  John is another local photographer…Baltimore I think…that I found through Twitter.  I really enjoyed his post today about his daughter Mady’s puddle jumping adventures.  Not too many words, but the photos spoke volumes.  I can totally relate.  And one of my girls has the same Hello Kitty rain boots!  Great work, John!