February Photo Hunt

This is my contribution to Karma’s When I Feel Like It Blog’s February’s Photo Hunt. The deadline was yesterday and I hope a day late is okay since we have 1 extra day this month.

Flake, we were fortunate enough to get some snow this month on February the 19th, it couldn’t have come in a better time.

Bow, I had to go into my photo archive for this one.  This picture was taken December 25, 2010 at Disney Magic Kingdom’s evening parade.

Mug, I didn’t try to go into a neighborhood to get mugged, and I think my camera would be the first to go so instead I took a picture of my coffee mug this morning. I know it is not as exciting as an image of me getting mugged.

Row, my sister germinates her seeds for spring planting.  She  has the seeds in each bowl wrapped in wet paper towel and labeled them in Lao language.

Bun, I have a Lao bun image here, also know as Kao Thom Mud.  Mud means to tie and not the mud in the English language.  Kao Thom Mud is a Lao dessert steamed sticky rice wrapped in banana leaves and tied with a rope.

I think Chinese Moon Cake could pass for a Chinese bun. It was good by the way.

Karma said to look for heart shapes in unusual places. Lee posed one for the assignment.

Bonus: leap – in honor of ”leap day” at the end of this month. I’ve  been fascinating with Natsumi Hayashi’s self portrait photography of her levitation at yowayowa camera woman diary.  It looks to me like she is flying and she is not Photoshopping her images either but she takes images of herself jumping up until she gets the right pose and composition that she is looking for.  This could be as many as hundreds of jumping up and down.

Photo of Natsumi Hayashi at yowayowacamera.com

As for today’s levitation Lee agreed to levitate for me. It is not the exact shot that I was looking for, but I made her jump one time too many and this is my image in honor of a leap day February 29, 2012.

So this is snow

I heard early this morning in the news that we might get some snow. I kept thinking to myself that I have to see it to believe it.  And someone must have heard me complaint yesterday that Winter flew by and was kind enough to sprinkle some white snow in our area (whisper “not enough though, Lee won’t be able to test out her snowboarder.”)

Click here to view this video on YouTube

But it is certainly enough for me to photograph the snow.

I bet you can’t guess what this is.

I was supposed to work in my garden today but it rained all day, then it snowed.  We probably got about 1 inch of snow, I guess it is better than nothing.

Two Hours Delay

We had some light snow passing our way last night, and the school called me at 5:30 am to notify about the 2 hours delay.

Manual, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, f/16, 1/60sec, ISO 100, focal length 32mm, white balance cloudy, evaluative metering

Deep down inside I wish we had more, by noon time it was all gone.

Manual, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, f/5.6, 1/40sec, ISO 100, focal length 84mm, white balance cloudy, evaluative metering

Manual, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, f/4, 1/250sec, ISO 100, focal length 105mm, white balance sunny, spot metering

My Rosemary bush is doing very well in this cold winter months.

Manual, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, f/4, 1/100sec, ISO 100, focal length 60mm, white balance sunny, spot metering

Church

The cemetery is covered with a white blanket, RIP.

Manual, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, f/8, 1/1250sec, ISO 200, focal length 45mm, white balance auto, evaluative metering