Ryan's "New"

April showers bring May flowers. Will blizzards in April bring us lizards in May?

Anyway, sometimes "New" things come too early.


/rl

Cory's New

I was hoping I would have "new kid" pictures for this week, but it's still a little early. So I settled on these little guys. Bonus points for identifying them!

Craig's New

I'm cool with quarterly best-of. Here's my 'new'... Spring is here. Ostensibly.

Due tomorrow night: "New"

Next week's topic is "Peeps".

Cory and I discussed doing "Best of" quarterly instead of yearly. It sounds good to me. Q and Craig?

/rl

Ryan's "Chain"

By a lucky coincidence, Jenny started making chain this weekend.



/rl

Craig's Chain

Do two links constitute a chain? I was quite fascinated by the erosion on the concrete. This one's a couple of years old, but I wanted to try this out before I posted something new for New.

Q's chain

i return!

however, it appears cory and i think very similarly.

shameless self-promotion: i finally got around to building a portfolio website like i've said i'd do for the past six or eight years. www.quenluen.com.

Cory's Chain

I spent all week trying to think of where I would find a chain, and then I remembered where I keep my chains: in the garage, attached to my bike.

Welcome, Craig!

Also, "Chain" is due Sunday night. Shoot something "New" for next Sunday.

Somebody needs to fill up the topic bucket. I can see the bottom.

/rl

water

i'm in phoenix for the weekend. there is no water here.

Ryan's "Water"

This week's story is similar to last week's - I had a wonderful shot lined up involving Niagara Falls, a helicopter, spotlights to create a rainbow at night, etc. Unfortunately I ended up studying for a Calc exam instead. Oh well. Ducky likes his water.


/rl - stretching the truth a bit.

Cory's Water

I tried the typical "water drop" picture, but failed miserably. So here's some water for drinking.

"Water" due sooner rather than later.

"Chain" will be due later rather than sooner.

/rl

Ryan's "Candlelight"

So, say that one plans a photo for most of a week. A photo that involves a friend's dungeon-like storm cellar and some candles. One prepares for the photo - makes arrangements to use the dungeon-like cellar, purchases enough candles to keep the little old ladies dropping nickels in the lockbox at St. Bridget's for weeks, creates an idea in one's mind how it will be lit. Then one realizes that he's not very good at Calculus, and should spend that time and energy integrating, derivating, and performing other obscenities upon numbers and trigonometric functions. What does one do? One improvises at 11:00 at night, risking burning down one's bookshelf:

Anybody want some of those little tea candles? They were $0.02 a piece in lots of 50. I spent $2.14 with tax. I have a few to spare...

/rl

Cory's Candlelight

Nothing special, just a candle that is lit. Instant candlelight!

"Candlelight" is due tonight!

The spinning wheel-o-topics has stopped on "Water" for next week.

/rl

Q's technology

Ryan's "Technology"

Given a supply of iron and a hammer, you can make a chisel. With a hammer and chisel, you can make a file. With a hammer, chisel, and file, you can make the rest of the world.



/rl

Cory's Technology

The biggest technology I have access to right now: a 40-rack Blue Gene/P system - 40,960 nodes, 163,840 processors, 450 teraflops. Also hidden off the frame to the right is 8 petabytes of disk space and a mess of 38 miles of network cabling.

Science!

"Technology" due within 6 hours

We have about 174 hours to shoot "Candlelight."

/rl

Q's pants

Ryan's "Pants"

Lighting the inside of a dryer is quite a pain....



/rl

Cory's Pants

It turns out I'm not very creative when it comes to pants...

Next week

Technology.

Pants due today!

Ryan's "Confusing"

This appears to be part of OPPD's new "Power to Nowhere" project...


On second thought, it may be a display at the OPPD Arboretum.

/rl

Cory's Confusing

This was definitely the most fun I've had taking one of these pictures so far. I also took another one with more weird stuff, but the composition wasn't nearly as good as this one.

Next week

Pants.

Confusing due today!

Q's profile

Next week I'll try to refrain from using my light table again . . .

Ryan's "Profile"

Inspiration has failed me, so I dumped out the pennies to recycle Lincoln's profile on a smaller scale:


/rl

Cory's Profile

Next Week

"Confused" or "Confusing".

Profile due today!

Plus, we're running out of topics. Pull out a dictionary and choose some more words!

Q's $3.27

When I first saw this topic, I was excited about making a picture of diet Coca-Cola and unlit cigarettes, but soon realized the topic was 36 cents off and instead wasn't an allusion to anything I recognized.

And when I tried importing my first picture into Photoshop, it gave me an error message saying "this application does not allow the editing of banknotes" and wouldn't let me open the file.

So, this is my plan C.

Ryan's "$3.27"

A penny made of 327 pennies!

It helps if you unfocus your eyes while looking at it....

Special thanks to Jenny for having the patience to sort pennies and make a penny out of them.

/rl

Cory's $3.27

All week I wanted to do something more creative than this, but this is the best I could do.

Next Week

Next week: Profile.

$3.27 due Sunday.

Cory's Trick

A simple shot of me cheering myself on as I play Wii tennis against myself. I've seen other people doing this sort of thing lately, so I figured it was time for me to give it a try. Hopefully it isn't breaking the rules too much...

Q's trick

I couldn't come up with much, so here's a remote shooting trick.

Taptaptap.... Is this thing on?

"Trick" due yesterday.
"$3.27" will be this week's topic.

$3.27!?!? Uhmmm.... errrrr..... Ok.

/rl

Ryan's "Trick"

I'm sure this is a part of many card tricks....




/rl

Q's animal

Ryan's Animal

Loki meets fisheye distortion:

Not a great picture, but it makes me laugh.

/rl

Cory's Animals

I got a great cereal toy a while back that works perfectly as a light pen, so I decided to play with it for this week's unrelated topic.

Next Week

Next week: Trick.

Animal(s) due today.

Ryan's "Modern"

"Omaha shure is modurn... we got one o' them roads way up in the air an' everthing!"


/rl

Q's modern

theaters > movie houses > cineplexes > VHS > DVD > bluray > netflix streaming. modern.

Please stand by....

My modern will be up tomorrow night.

I have no plausible excuse.

/rl

Cory's Modern

This is as modern as I get. Note that five recipes are included on every label. How much more modern can it be?

"Modern" is due today!

Next up is animals(s).

/rl

Ryan's "Blue"

Introducing Fugs, the Blue Doll Faced Persian. Sometimes his bluish tinge is apparent, but it is overpowered by electronic flash. I tried a light blue gel on the strobe, but it shifted him too close to Grover color.

/rl

Cory's Blue

For my blue, I present a close-up view of my messenger bag.

Lis thought I should have posted this shot of the sky instead though.

"Blue" due tomorrow!

Looks like next in line is "Modern".

/rl

Many apologies to Q!

When I posted the last poll ("Christmas"), I added a "g" to his name! I blame insane blood sugar levels - I was sitting on Mom & Dad's couch sucking down peanut butter balls and toffee.

Oops.

/rl

Q's best of '08

A shot from the summer on Melissa's front porch outside Managua, Nicaragua.

Ryan's "Best of 2008"

Also a brutal contest, also (if you really want it) available as a print. This really isn't my favorite of 2008, but every time I look at it I am surprised by it. Click through to view larger!

/rl

Cory's Best of 2008

It was a brutal contest, but this one beat the others as my "Best of 2008". Also available as a print!

Next Week

Next week: Blue

Best of 2008 due tomorrow!

q's christmas

a day late and a dollar short . . .

Cory's Christmas

Here's Kevin getting ready for a little "Christmas fun".

"Christmas" due today!

Next week: Best of 2008. Any photo from 2008 is welcome.

/rl

Ryan's "Christmas"

With apologies to Q:


While perhaps not a great image photographically, I think it captures the holiday well. It was great to see everyone again, and I hope you all had good trips home!

/rl

Cory's Foreign

I've got a busy weekend, so I'm posting my picture now so I don't forget about it. Also, I never posted a picture of my light box a few weeks ago when Ryan asked about it. Since I used it for this, I finally took one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cluening/3120289441/

Next week...

Next week: Christmas! Plus, pictures of Christmas.

"Foreign" due Sunday.

Ryan's Wild Card

Per Cory's request, I give you my left thumb. Complete with blue ink and antifreeze stains. Try to get a well focused, shallow depth of field photo of your own left thumb. It's not that easy!






/rl

Q's wildcard

My friend Melissa was in town this week, and we took a break at Yuxing's apartment.

Both time and inspiration have failed me...

I don't think I will be entering a photo for this topic. Grrrr....

/rl

Cory's Wild Card

Toot toot! I pulled out the old trains this weekend to set up around the Christmas tree.

Due tonight - anything you want! (Wild Card)

Next topic will be "Foreign".

Thank you, please drive through.

/rl

Q's motion

This is a variation on a picture I made a couple years ago.

Ryan's "Motion"

I briefly thought I was going to miss the deadline - then I thought of a topic. This was quick and dirty, but might be fun to play with in the future.


/rl

Cory's Motion

A spinning top, caught as it jumps around the table. If you look closely you can see Sophie's teeth marks from when I left her alone with it.

"Motion" is due today!

Next week's topic is "Wild Card".

Q's city

The view from my bedroom at night.