Georgia is a good sport and helped me out on the toothbrush photos. I was starting to feel sad that #photoadayJuly was over but Photoaday is not over! I’m very happy to find out that Fat Mum Slim is doing photoday for August too!

 

I can already tell it’s going to be just as much fun. If you haven’t decided to join tomorrow’s a great time to start click here for instructions on how to play.

 

I’ve almost grown used to the crazy Kudzu that grows along the roadsides of Tennessee but every once in a while I stare at it like I did the very first time I saw it.

The boys, I use that term loosely there’s a girl who drives one of the haul trucks on that job, well I think it’s a girl anyway could be a guy with very pretty long blond hair for all I know. Anyway THEY  are still working on out on Highway 30 it’s looking better and better every day.

Please don’t ask me about the thing on top of that car, I have no idea what it is supposed to be.

 

Pear smoothie colored with beet juice. Lucy’s water bowl but for today I’m calling it a cup. Oh and the bug that fell into my smoothie while I was trying to take a picture of it.

 

From the dollar store, the real dollar store where everything is a dollar.

 

 

As Georgia always says: “Brush only the ones you want to keep”.

 

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Georgia is really happy to have a new ball. Somehow she lost her others. Well it may, just may have had something to do with that yappy dog next door that comes out to bark every once in a while. she may have been on her way to fetch the ball but then stopped mid fetch to run down the hill to bark back to Yappy dog. And by the time They were done exchanging barks… the ball, What ball? Yeah Where’s the ball?

 

If you’d throw it for her she’d really like that too.

 

And again.

On another note, I’m disappointed that Old Navy seems to had discontinued my favorite 2.50 flip flops. I don’t know what I’ll do when these wear out.

 

But if that’s my biggest concern in life I guess things aren’t all that bad.

 

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I am just having too much fun with #photoadayjuly! Who would’ve known two slices of vegetarian sausage would have anything to do with eyes?

 

It started out innocently enough, a bunch of vegetables on the table to be made into a pizza. But then there was that nagging feeling that I still hadn’t taken any picture of any eyes.

I laid a few things out on the cutting board and before I knew it I had a face with eyes! I though that was as far as it was going to go

 

So I got the dough ready.

 

I was so busy laughing at my Mr vegetable head that I forgot to grease the pan before putting the dough on.

 

It turned out to be just fine with the oil that ran off from the pesto when it baked.

 

On the left I have chicken, roasted red peppers, green bell peppers and cracked pepper cheese. On the right I have carrots, some kind of vegetarian sausage, I don’t know, it was a deal.And cracked pepper cheese.

 

Then I realized that the face wanted to be on the pizza! So I put on a layer of shredded mozzarella as sort of a foundation or concealer or something. The sausage slices were such perfect almond shaped eyes. A thin slice of zucchini made the most adorable eyelashes. A bent green bean added just the right touch for a nose.

 

More zucchini sliced with a vegetable peeler for the curled moustache and curly hair. Roasted red pepper made his stunning lips and his two bucky front teeth made from cucumbers were solely inspired by Bubba J!

 

I added a little more mozzarella and off to the oven he went.

 

Bake until the dough is lightly browned on the bottom and the cheese is bubbly. 

 

Serve warm or eat later when you can stop laughing.

 

With pizza and vegetables all things are possible!

 

Make your own pizza face

suggested items

• your favorite pizza dough
• zucchini ribbons
• roasted red peppers
• cucumbers
• carrots, sausage
• chicken
• cheese
• green beans
• pesto

 

Bake at 500 until the dough is lightly browned on the bottom and the cheese is bubbly.

 

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I’m still doing photoadayjuly but have added a new twist for myself. The Experimental cook mentioned that she only had a point and shoot camera, my first thought was good pictures can be taken with point and shoot cameras too, just do it. Then I decided to do this week with a point and shoot too!

This sunset was on my drive home, I had both cameras with me, I pulled over, resisted the urge to grab the big camera and just took the little point and shoot and the tripod. There are no manual options on it so I experimented with the sunset, mountain and fireworks settings. Fireworks seemed to capture the colors of the sky best.

 

Here’s the list if you want to join late. It’s lots of fun. Big camera, little camera, phone camera, any kind!

 

This is the little point and shoot that is now joining photoadayjuly.

 

Top photos are from my DSLR and bottom the P&S.

 

Uh, I never did get a finger photo with the DSLR. This two camera thing can get a little confusing.

Top:  on Aperture priority with ISO set to 200    f/4.5  1/1600 sec  ISO-200

Bottom: Point and shoot on auto  f3.5 1/25sec  ISO-64

 

I have a bad habit of over editing photos. It comes and goes, sometimes I stay on the wagon for a while and can control myself but every now and then I learn about some new fun way to edit photos and it’s all down hill from there. Here PicMonkey got the best of me. Free online photo editor, nothing to install on your computer, makes collages, add text, textures, frames, scrapbook-like overlays and borders, white balance, temperature adjustments and lots of adjustable presets. Way too much fun!

 

Top  f2.8   1/500 sec  ISO- 400

Bottom   f/5    1/25sec  ISO- 100

 

I know this one is late but I had to include it. This little yellow chair is the same little yellow chair that my aunt sat on for her picture so many years ago. My aunt is now a grandma to some  grandkids who are just a cute as she was way back then.

Top: on Aperture priority  f/4    1/320 sec  ISO-200

Bottom:  on  the macro setting with the flower symbol f/5.3 1/200 sec ISO-64

 

Looking forward to next week, hope you are too! I have no idea what I’m going to do for any of them!

What if 9 o’clock comes and goes twice and I can’t think of anything to take a picture of? AAHHH!

 

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I’m jumping in late to the photoaday challenge. It’s a fun way to challenge yourself (or you and your friends, go in a group it’s more fun) to go out and take more pictures.

I found this list on Crobinator.com and I was inspired by the stellar job she’s been doing with this challenge. And it made me feel better to see that she used a photo from June for one of the photos. I like that because I plan on cheating a little too. I’m more a fan of posting a good photo that was taken pretty close to the date than a crumby off topic photo that was taken on the exact date.

 

If you’re on the fence about this just pick a few to do and don’t worry about it. You might just discover something new on your camera that’s been there all along. I went out looking for textures and found myself taking pictures of humming birds minutes later. Then I played around with the 11 point tracking focus option. I don’t know if I like it.

 

I think I’ll have to work on this panning thing a bit more. I actually did this unintentionally on Aperture priority at

F/4 

1/8 sec    

ISO 320 

 

F/2.8   1/310 sec  ISO 100 Metering mode pattern

 

F/4.8       1/550 sec     ISO 100    Metering mode pattern

 

I had way too much fun with this!

If you feel ambitious and have some spare time check out some tutorials to make your own.

 

Those tomatoes may never make any beauty pageants but they will make a fine salad. The new potatoes on the other hand are just so pretty and it’ll probably be their downfall later in life. 

 

Turkey Avocado Panini with pesto. This was actually supper, but I told you I am not going to be a stickler on this.

 

I even remembered to try a flash for fill light here. I’m usually so afraid to use a flash ‘cause I don’t usually like the results but here on this 100 degree afternoon it  added just a little, I think it’s ok. 

 

I had a finger in this pie! I don’t make quilts but I love arranging colors. Needless to say the squares in that corner are just there ‘cause there weren’t any more blue squares.

 

I went out looking for textures. First I found this rock. I liked it a lot

South Carolina Peaches. 

 

But then I spotted the texture! This was it, just what I was looking for. What is it? You ask. 

 

An excavator bucket that has been mended so much that that those hard facing welds now are more of an outside skeleton that hold the bucket together. I don’t think I’ve seen another bucket looking quite like this.

I hope I’ve encouraged you to join “Photo A Day July” You don’t have to have a blog to participate, you can post it anywhere you like, pinterest, twitter, instagram, facebook, whatever even share by old school email to your closest friends. Post links to you photos in the comments, I love to see them.

 

Go out and shoot!

~PN

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