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May 18, 2006

Stuff Portrait Friday: Inspiration

Kristine was inspired by a Flickr user this week. Here’s our assignment:

1. Something Discarded
2. Lay down on the ground and find something ugly and make it beautiful.
3. Take a picture in the style of the person that inspires you.

I found my something discarded in the fitting room at Marshall’s. My dressing room tag says “What will you find today?” but I’m pretty sure they didn’t mean empty beer bottles. By the way, back in the 80s the day, my first job was working in the fitting room at Marshall’s. My boyfriend at the time was the janitor, and he found all sorts of lovely discarded items on his nightly dry mop tour of the fitting rooms. One time, he found a Dixie cup with pee in it. Classy folks, our customers.
Discarded

I was afraid if I lay on the ground, I would have been crawled upon by creepy things and that gave me the heebie jeebies. So I crouched and zoomed to get this little guy. I don’t know if I made him beautiful, but he’s kinda cute, dontchya think?
Lounging Lizard

This photo, like one of mine from last week, was inspired by (e). He loves shooting long exposure shots. I took this one at Kaboom! last weekend. I had the tripod set up and ready to shoot fireworks and was doing test shots. This one used a shutter length of one second.
Long exposure

TGIF, and Happy SPF! Did you play?

20 people have roominated “Stuff Portrait Friday: Inspiration”

  1. Dawn had this to say on May 19th, 2006 at 3:19 am

    pee?? gross. lol! your lizard shot is pretty cool. all the lizards i see never sit still long enough to get a good clear photo! and that last shot is just plain cool! nice SPF!

    i had a hard time with this one myself but i played as well.

  2. Michelle had this to say on May 19th, 2006 at 3:38 am

    I love your last shot. Not sure why buts its cool.
    The lizard looks kinda friendly I think.

    Happy SPF

  3. Lee had this to say on May 19th, 2006 at 3:51 am

    very nice lizard shot and the crowd is cool….you did good :) I played…

  4. krista had this to say on May 19th, 2006 at 3:55 am

    very cool blurring effect.

  5. Jenie had this to say on May 19th, 2006 at 4:50 am

    I love that last pic! Very cool. And the lizard is cute! lol

    Happy SPF! I played too.

  6. Irish Church Lady had this to say on May 19th, 2006 at 5:02 am

    Like those pics ~ very nice! My discarded has beer bottle too! I also could have put up a lizard picture but chose otherwise.

    Happy SPF!

  7. melanie had this to say on May 19th, 2006 at 5:58 am

    very cool! i can’t believe someone drank beer in a department store dressing room. too funny.

  8. christie had this to say on May 19th, 2006 at 6:13 am

    *Love* that last photo

  9. Hemlock had this to say on May 19th, 2006 at 6:55 am

    Great shots. I adore your long exposure pic. I’m constantly amazed by the cool stuff you can capture that way.

    And the empty beer bottle is hilarious. Who knew?

    Great SPF! I played too… (and I’m not new… just newly named…)

  10. delaine had this to say on May 19th, 2006 at 6:59 am

    EWWW! on the discarded pee!

    I like that lizard shot. I’m surprised he didn’t jump away.

    Awesome last shot. I’ve never attempted fireworks, yet.

    I played.

  11. Mainline Mom had this to say on May 19th, 2006 at 7:08 am

    I LOVE your long exposure shot. Now I must try that.

  12. Jana had this to say on May 19th, 2006 at 7:11 am

    That last one is really cool!

    I played!

  13. Mrs.DallasK had this to say on May 19th, 2006 at 7:16 am

    I LOVE that last shot!!

  14. Gail had this to say on May 19th, 2006 at 7:35 am

    Good shots!
    I played, happy SPF.

  15. kristine had this to say on May 19th, 2006 at 7:51 am

    I am digging the clarity of that last shot!!

  16. Torie had this to say on May 19th, 2006 at 8:52 am

    I love the “inspired” photo. Those long exposure shots are always really interesting.
    I played too

  17. Lisa had this to say on May 19th, 2006 at 1:48 pm

    At least it was an import beer! LOL
    The long exposure shots are so cool to do. Great SPF and I played too.

  18. Juliabohemian had this to say on May 19th, 2006 at 1:53 pm

    I like the last one.
    I used to work at a liquor store years ago. We found out one of the beer vendors was sucking back a few when he was back in the cooler stocking. We kept finding empty beer bottles. It took us a while to catch him , though.

  19. CameraDawktor had this to say on May 19th, 2006 at 4:25 pm

    Hey, love the last shot, cool!

    I played too!

  20. Angela had this to say on May 19th, 2006 at 9:37 pm

    I love that last shot. I think I have camera/lense envy now. ;o)

    I played too!

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