Today I learned about camera tossing and had to give it a try.

BFD

I downloaded a photoshop action from a site called deviantart and left a comment which included a link to my blog.  Georgina Illingworth from Leeds, Yorkshire, UK downloaded that same action and followed the link to my blog.  She left a comment on Day 114 with a link to her blog, A Message In A Milk Bottle where I found a link to a site called Lost and Taken which offers free textures.  My desire to use a texture led me to take this photo.  Isn't the internet cool?  

If you're from a country other than the United States I'd love for you to leave a comment and introduce yourself.  Blogger provides some basic stats so I know you're out there.  Today I had a page view from Slovenia.  In the last week I've had seven page views from Belgium,  and I've had a total of 73 page views from Germany since I started the blog. 

Thanks for the comment Georgina and I hope you get your spider problem under control.

This guy was pretty comfortable with me getting close so I was able to get several variations.  I'll post some more in the "Read More".

I was complaining to the kids that I didn't know what to take a picture of and they said, "Do something abstract".  

Craigslist came through.  I sold my truck tonight.  Probably would have been a better picture if I had asked Travis from Galesburg if I could take his picture in front of the truck but this is what I have.

Sister/Brother, Madison 13, Logan 10

This came out better than I expected.  I got the idea from Ulrich Collette

Quarrel

There are many reasons people do a 365 project.  For me, it's an exercise to try to overcome perfectionism.  I wanted to do a 365 long before I ever tried it.  My main reason for not trying was that some days the pictures would suck.  Then someone pointed out that by avoiding the bad pictures I was also missing out on the good ones.  Day 24 is a good example of that.  So, here is a bad one that it pains me to post but it's the best I have.  For more about constraints fueling creativity check out this video.

Waiting for supper off the grill.

My only night at the fair this year.

I seem to be drawn to doors and windows.

County Fair week means a collection of bracelets.  This will always be a memorable fair as it was the year President Obama stopped by.  No pictures of that though.  We were already on the road to Great America when he rolled into town.