Sunidesus Sees

Since I have a PhotoBlog now, I'm going to participate in my first Theme Thursday today! This is my boy Dolce enjoying a bath. When he takes a bath he goes nuts. He can spray water over an entire room. He's quite enthusiastic!

My first submission to Photojunkie's 100K Photocontest.

And the second submission to Photojunkies 100K Photocontest.

I really enjoyed this week's Theme Thursday topic. I work at a TV station and am surrounded by technology every day. I bounce between three to four different computers, plus a video switcher all day. This particular picture was taken back in the equipment room. This is just one of three racks of equipment in the room. There's also a server room, a phone line/circuit breaker room, the weather equipment area, plus the controls for three satellite dishes, not to mention the control room itself which has LOTS more equipment. There are more pictures of work in my Photo Album and I'll probably be posting a few more of my theme pictures here in the next couple hours.

Well, that was a lot of verbage for a PHOTOblog!

This is just a small part of the phone system coming into our building. The number of wires just amazes me.

So, I'm doing my Theme Thursday on a Friday. Ah well. This weeks theme is "Silly" so without further ado here is my silly frog blanket thing.

It was a present from IWTB. It's a medium sized blanket in the shape of a frog's body, with a giant stuffed frog head attached! I have a huge collection of frogs and he is by far the largest. You can see one of my other frogs on the right (it's little and quite round). Maybe someday I'll post pictures of more of my froggys.

So I'm a little late with my Theme Thursday. Well, not that late, it's only one day after Thursday after all. Anyway... here is my porch in shadows.

This week's Theme Thursday is Babies. I've got two pictures for it. The first one is me and my feathered baby Dolce. Whenever I talk about him, I refer to him as "my baby" so he's quite applicable to this week's theme.

I didn't take this next picture, IWTB did. This is her neice Hannah. She was born June 19th at 1 lb. 12 ozs. She's up above 9 lbs. now but is still stuck at the hospital. IWTB and Hannah's mom Nikki went to visit on Halloween (very cute chilli pepper outfit pics to come) and they took my camera. So... Hannah is now part of my Theme Thursday!

This week's Theme Thursday is collections. This was a very easy one for me, at least the idea was easy. The execution of said idea took me the past 2 hours!

I have a huge frog collection. (none of them are alive though) I photographed a handful of them, cut them out, and put them all together in one picture. There's the piano playing frog, the crystal frog, the frog pin, a few stuffed frogs, a frog container... I also have frog keychains, and wooden frogs, and frogs with suction cup feet, there's a frog blanket too. Not to mention the frog t-shirts and frog tote bag! The bowl with the frog in the middle I made back in high school in a pottery class.

If you haven't run screaming from the crazy frog lady yet, here's the picture!

Now that I've got my photoblog up and running again, I'm going to start participating in this again. Here we go!

Laughter

My little cousin Luke always makes people laugh.

These guys laughed all night. This is actually from New Years Eve.

And of course these pictures of my brother always make me laugh. He's such a goofball!

This week's theme is:

Something to Look Forward to

I'm looking forward to finishing this...

and here's a close up of it...

I have one row of blocks left to add to this and then I can do the border and then figure out how to do the backing and stuffing. I've been working on it on and off for a very long time and now I can feel myself so close to being done and I'm all excited about it.

If anyone is interested it's all hand-pieced. Each block is a different blue fabric. It's a pattern called "Snowballs"

OK, I took pictures for last week's theme but I forgot to upload them! Silly me. And I'm having a really hard time coming up with something for this week's theme. So, I'm just going to upload last week's and call it even.

Last week's theme was Heritage

In my parent's basement there is one long wall that Mom has covered with family pictures. Some are newer, and some are from long ago. It's very cool and I really like it.

Because of this week's events I'm a tad behind on everything. I'm just getting around to posting my Theme Thursday today.

The theme this week is: Family

My blog family.

This week's Theme Thursday is: Red.

I was tempted to cheat a little and use this entry from September. But I decided to take this instead!

Not only is this the color red, but it makes me see red too. Especially when it's stupid mistakes like this one was.

When I was browsing through this week's Theme Thursday entries, I saw a link for another weekly photo meme. It's called Photo Friday and this week's challenge is: Skin

My left hand index finger.

I had a lot of fun with this week's theme. There's two parts to it, the second part is down in the extended entry.

The theme is: Words
I'm such a visual person that words always have images attached to them for me. As soon as I got the theme in my e-mail, I started seeing words everywhere. This is what I ended up with!

OK, everybody pretend it's Thursday. Ready? Start!

Now that it's Thursday... here's my theme!

This week's is: Steps
and walking through this door was a huge step for me, because this is on the other side.

Stumbled across the Saturday Snapshot today and decided to participate. I do love photo-memes!

This week's challenge is: Toys
These are some of my favorite toys.

And of course me playing with them!

It's Theme Thursday time!

This week is: music

I had a lot of fun with this one. I've taken piano lessons since I was seven and I couldn't resist the opportunity to take pictures of my (well, my mom's) piano.

It's Photo Friday time!
This week's challenge is: Small

These are some lilac buds from a few weeks ago when they were just starting to open.

It's time for the Saturday Snapshot!

This week's assignment doesn't have a simple title, it has four steps:
1. Select something that is esthetically pleasing,
2. has unique lighting somehow,
3. something you have not photographed before,
4. and then I want you to greyscale it, and post both to show a contrast.

I took this while searching for the Caddie Woodlawn geocache. It's the place where the author of the Caddie Woodlawn book grew up. It's a really cool place. Anyway, here's the pictures!

It's Theme Thursday time again. This week's theme is: Up

Whenever I see these I'm always amazed that they stay up and don't all come tumbling down off of there!

This is my submission for the May Day Project. For the big pictures (and the story!) click on the extended entry tab.

OK everybody, I know I've been absent the last week or so. I've been busy and not in a posting mood. But now I need some help! Last week I took literally hundreds of photos for the America 24/7 project. I've narrowed it down to 14, and I'm going to post them all here and I'm asking for everyone to let me know what your favorites are. Thanks in advance for any help. I'm begging here everyone. They're all in the extended entry except for the one that I'm putting right here to tease you all into looking at the rest of them!

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I finally have my 'puter back and I'm participating in my first Photo Friday in a long time. This week's challenge is: Critters

Of course you were all expecting a picture of my Dolce (he's the green one if you're new around here) but now there's a new roomate at the Sunidesus house. Our flock has expanded by one. Meet Hermione, better known as Mione. She actually belongs to Syn, but I've kind of adopted her because Syn was having a hard time with a bird and a cat. And I'm such a bird person... we are now a flock of three.

It's Theme Thursday time! This week's theme is: feet

My feet in their natural state, bare! Without any of those evil shoes lurking about.

I was having fun with my camera and decided to take more Theme Thursday pictures. So enjoy some birdie feet.

Yesterday was Theme Thursday and now it's Friday which means its time for Photo Friday!

This week's challenge is: Angles

If you couldn't guess, this is the tower at work. I have more tower pictures...

My Theme Thursday entry for this week...

The theme is: Yellow

Not the best flower picture I've ever taken :P but it works I suppose.

I like the end of the week. It means it's time for photo memes! And those are always fun.

Here's this week's Photo Friday, the challenge is Solitude.

I first saw this particular meme a week ago, and decided to participate this week.

The theme is: Reflections

I took this the day before my friend Syn's dance recital.

It's Thursday! And we all know what that means right? Yep, you got it. It's Theme Thursday time.

Theme: Ground Level

It's Photo Friday time!

This week is: Symmetry

I really like this house. I just wish that it didn't have that cable in front of it! I might try to Photoshop it out once I get home tonight. But then again I might not. You never know!

It's Phototime.
This week is: Frustration

For me frustration is 17 tapes that have to go to 14 cities with 8 different combinations of commercials and 5 different timing sheets. Every. Monday.

That time of week has come around again... the Theme Thursday kind of time.

This week's theme is: Paper

This is only a fraction of the paper we go through at work. This tub was emptied yesterday. And this is for just one room. There's another bin like it in the control room and in the front office. Good thing we recycle!

Being that it's the end of the week there's all kinds of memes happening. I had a hard time coming up with a picture for this week's Photo Friday.

The challenge this week is: Identity

I finally went with this picture, because my identity (for better or worse) is entirely too wrapped up in what I do in this chair.

Being the procrastinator that I am... I'm uploading my 26 Things now. This was an absolutely wonderful meme and I can't wait for Tracey's next project!

I haven't posted many pictures the last weekish. Bad photoblogger! But now it's Thursday and that gives me an excuse to post something.

The theme this week is: Neon

These are little fishies called Neon Tetras.

Has it really been a week since my last post? I think so. Yikes! Well it's Thursday and we all know what that means!

This week's theme is: Spiral

This was taken a week ago at the amazing Cirque du Soleil. Technically I wasn't supposed to be taking pictures at all, but the announcer person at the beginning just said "no flash" so...

Anyway, the guy on the left is about to take off. You can see his arms moving. The guy on the right is in mid spin. At the end of their act these two guys were going in continuous spins (spirals if you will) for a very long time. It was incredible.

Photo Friday time. This week's challenge is: Broken.

And when He had taken some bread and given thanks, He broke it and gave it to them, saying, "This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me."
- Luke 22:19

He was broken so that I don't have to be broken for eternity.

So I'm a little behind, but so what!

This week's PhotoTime theme is: Odd

And this is my very odd co-worker.

He's a tad obsessed with his tongue,

and his butt...
but that's another story...

This week's Theme Thursday is: Heat

I think I would go crazy (well, crazier at any rate) without this machine when it's hot out. I absolutely hate being hot. Give me the middle of winter any day.

This weeks Photo Friday is: Neighborhood

The neighborhood of make believe. Still around even though its creator has left us.

And a two-fer!

The neighborhood I grew up in. Not horribly creative I know, but that's what I think of when I think of a "neighborhood."

This week's Photo Time challenge is: Glass

I actually took this last summer. One of the last surviving parts of the old building reflecting the building as it was being torn down.

[Update: Will suggested cropping this thing tighter which had actually been my original thought. I was tired when I posted and just re-sized and uploaded and didn't crop. Now I've cropped! Check it out]

It's Theme Thursday time (even though it's Friday) This week's theme is: Bubbles

and this one too, because it's huge and it took me forever to get a shot of one of the big ones!

It's time for Photo Friday! I know, it's Saturday. But I had a really hard time coming up with a picture for this week's challenge: Aged

This is Duckie. I have had her since literally the day I was born. So she has aged right along with me! Her fur isn't nearly as yellow as it used to be, but she's actually still in pretty good shape. I'll try to find the pictures of her in my cradle in the hospital at the parental household tomorrow and scan those in too.

This week's Phototime theme is: Holey

This is a wind chime that hangs on the porch at my apartment. It belongs to my landlords obviously. Now that I think about it, it's really more of a wind thunk than a wind chime. But it makes a really cool thunk noise!

I haven't been blogging the last week or so, and I haven't been taking pictures either. So for this week's Phototime I'm going with a shot I took for the 26 Things scavenger hunt. The theme this week is: Communication

I had fun getting this shot. I used an almost completely black room and a long exposure (16 seconds) and left my hands in each letter's spot for 3 or 4 seconds to let the camera register it before moving again. So there ya go!

It's time for Theme Thursday this week's theme is: It's All Good, things that make us smile when we look through the viewfinder.

I know it's expected, but I just had to post a shot of Dolce. He always makes me smile.

It's now time for Photo Friday. This week's challenge is: Heights

This is the western shore of Lake Michigan from a plane coming in to land at O'Hare. (Quite a high height!) This shot really doesn't capture it all that well, but I loved the way the sand and silt looked drifting out into the lake.

I'm entering back into the world of the photo-meme living here. It's Tuesday, which means it's Phototime! This week's theme is: Signs

The advantages of bringing your camera everywhere? When you see goofy signs you can take pictures!

Anyone want some free dirt?

And a sign that you're headed for a new home.