62/365 - The Train Station

55/365 - The Blacksmith Shop

This picture is of inside the building of the Blacksmith shop at Fort Vancouver where we visited yesterday. It was quite smokey inside and that's why the light streaming in from the window shows up so amazingly well.

Day 40 - January 29, 2011 - The Academy

This brick building is awesome. The other side of it is completely overgrown with ivy and ferns. The windows up top are all broken and the ones down below are boarded up. I took a lot of pictures here but I'll have to go back and shoot it again because I was looking through my pictures and noticed where I can change the composition a bit to get better photos. This one could be improved too. Because of where I was standing, it looks like the "Academy" tower is leaning, when really it's not. You live, you learn.

Day 27 - January 16 , 2011 - Happy Tree

Have you ever seen a tree smile?

Day 20 - January 9, 2011 - Hardly Noticeable

I've been having a hard time finding things to take pictures of every single day. This project is really taking me out of my photography comfort zone, which is a good thing. I don't think I have a big range with my photography, which isn't necessarily bad, but I'm looking at this project a little differently now, especially after exploring on Flickr. I could spend all day on there just looking at pictures. There are some pretty amazing photographers out there. It's very inspiring. I want to grow as a photographer and try new things and I want to see beauty in things that I wouldn't normally see beauty in. So when I went outside with my camera today I walked out with a new perspective. I had no idea what I was going to photograph. I was walking down the steps from my back deck looking frantically around, when this unique leaf caught my eye. It was on the ground laying in a small pile of leaves and camouflaged, the only one of it's kind. It's different and I loved that I noticed something that was hardly noticeable.

Day 16 - January 5, 2011 - Black & White Barn

It was pouring rain today, which is a nice break from the freezing weather, but it doesn't make for good shooting conditions. I kind of like my camera and didn't want to get it soaking wet so I stayed inside today. Inside pictures are just not my thing so I'm going to break the rules and post a picture that I took Monday. I could post a crap picture that I took today, but I'm a little tired of setting up my camera in my living room window and taking pictures of my neighbors cars. It's getting quite boring and I want to post something different.

I was in Brush Prairie, on my way to help my mom with some things at work when I saw this barn not too far from the road and pulled over. There were houses on either side of it and I didn't want to trespass, although I would have loved to shoot the barn at an interesting angle or even go exploring inside.