More photos from my 1 A Day Set.

More of the photos I’ve neglected to post from my 1 A Day set.

It’s been a really long time since I did this.  Here are some of the non-Project 365 related photos since then.

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Last year after Dina and Brian went to The Village for Halloween, I did some research on this tradition and decided we would go whenever things worked out.  Well, this year was that year so we decided to spend Halloween night in Greenwich Village in NYC’s Manhattan.  But, first, we rewind once again to last year.  Danielle’s mother made an awesome Chun-Li costume for Dina that rivals anything you can find in a US costume store.  Brian was Ryu and both got lots of accolades for their costumes.  Fast forward to this summer.  We decided to also have Danielle’s mom make our costumes this year.

Due to missing some photos on the weekend or extremely busy weeks, I’ve now completed 155 days as of the time this is being written.  Here are some of my favorite photos since my last update in August. To see the entire project, visit my 365 Set on flickr.

A mixture of the old and the new.

This photo has suddenly become my daily most viewed photo for the past 10 days or so.

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Yesterday it had 32 views.  It had 30 a couple of days before that.  As of 2100 on 21 Oct, it has 22 views.  [Almost] All of the views have been coming from Google and Yahoo image searches.  I wish flickr told me what search terms were leading to this little guy.  I’d try a few really quick.  “Pope John Paul” (no quotes) does not bring it up on the first page.  “Pope John Mole” and “Pope Mole” (again, both without quotes) do bring it up as the first search result.  But why would someone be searching with those terms?  It just doesn’t make any sense.  The image already has 1814 views for all time.

Heard about Jeffrey Friedl’s lens focal length plot plugin for Lightroom and decided to check it out.  Here’s what it produced from my entire library.

[caption id=“attachment_2818” align=“aligncenter” width=“1036”] Apparently I mostly shoot wide[/caption]

Nearly 60% of my photos are in the wide to short telephoto range and nearly 40% is exclusively wide.  Now, I do have SOME photos from others in my Lightroom catalog, but not enough to skew the results.  I would say the reason for the huge concentration of photos in the 33-82mm range comes from the kit lens and its equivalent focal length USM version that I shoot a lot of photos with.  The large concentration around the 308-330mm range comes from the 1.6x crop factor of my XT and XTi on the Tamron 55-200mm I use for wildlife photography.

Three years ago I was discussing photography with a fellow photographer, pictured below.  We were discussing places for good photography in the DC-Baltimore vicinity and he mentioned Shenandoah Valley.  He also showed me some photos of deer he had gotten there.  He was pretty impressed with how close he got to the deer (although - spoiler - I eventually got closer).  I was impressed with the deer photos and his description of Shenandoah Valley.  I resolved to visit it.

It’s been nearly a month since I put up the bird feeders in our house and I have been enjoying them nearly every day since then.  In fact, the only negative has been the cost of bird food.  But, as my mother-in-law put it, I get the benefits of having birds without the hassle of having them as pets.  At first we had a few birds visiting the feeders each day.  Now, during the busy bird breakfast hours, we get multiple birds at once.  Interestingly, on the whole, the birds to not fight with each other.  Rather, if there are more birds than spots at the feeder, they will queue up on nearby branches.  I was very surprised by this behaviour because I thought they would surely fight over this nearly infinite food source.