portrait mode Archives – Kristen Koster

Week Eight of our 365 Photo Challenge!

As promised, some pictures from somewhere other than my backyard. I wasn’t able to post much earlier this week because we went to Austin, TX. We used to live there before we moved here to SoCal 8 years ago. We got to catch up with a few old friends and even DH’s cousin who was also in town for work. We got to visit the kids’ first elementary school and ran into a couple teachers and one of the nurses who is retiring this year. In Austin, they have a saying, “If you don’t like the weather, wait 15 minutes.” Well, on Thursday it was around 90 degrees. Friday the high was 61 degrees. It was amazing to see the things that had changed (new malls, neighborhoods going to seed, TOLL roads!) and everything that hadn’t. Amy’s Ice Cream and Rudy’s BBQ were still the favorites of the day.

What you see below are links to my flickr set for the photos I’m posting for this challenge. Click on any photo below to go to flickr and then you can navigate through the set with the “Previous” and “Next” arrows at the top.

Sun: Feb 19, 2012		Mon: Feb 20, 2012
Tue: Feb 21, 2012	Wed: Feb 22, 2012	Thu: Feb 23, 2012
Fri: Feb 24, 2012		Sat: Feb 25, 2012

Week Seven of our 365 Photo Challenge! Kind of an odd mix subject wise this week. Lots more flowers. The camelias are almost done, but lots of others are just beginning to bloom. I’ve noticed I’ve been in portrait mode instead of landscape mode a lot lately. Not sure why. Everything I took today was vertical also. It’s less comfortable to hold the camera that way. I noticed I seem to take more landscape or horizontal oriented pictures with my iPhone, since it’s actually easier to click the volume button to take the picture that way.

I promise next week I’ll have some pictures from much farther afield! Hope you’re enjoying these recaps as much as I am taking them.