366 Photo Project - Week #1

Happy 2012 :) For this year's "collection" project, I've decided to get on board with the daily photo project for a year.  For the past years, I have noticed others that have been doing this sort of project.  Some call them 365 Photo Project, Project 365, 365 Days and so forth.  Just right before the new year, while I was browsing my Google Reader, I came across an post about The 365 Photo Project by iheartfaces.  Excited and inspired, I started with my first shot the next day on 1 January 2012.  I only realised that we have 366 days this year when a friend pointed it out to me after my first upload (a reason why the first photo is tagged #365photoproject).

For my #366photoproject, I don't have any specific theme set for the daily photos, other than to retain the size of the photos to be all in a square shape, with a caption, day number and the date (gotta have at least one form of consistency in a collection), and to just shoot anything that captures my eyes.  Most of my photos up to this first week were taken using iPhone3GS, and they are uploaded daily on tumblr and Instagram.  Several friends on twitter and facebook have also joined in, so this is going to be fun :)

Here is Week 1 for my 366 Photo Project:

I'm already imagining a poster of 366 thumbnail photos at the end of the year, and then looking at each one trying to recall the story behind them ;)

colours in the backyard

We went to The Colour Lab for the second time earlier this evening.  The first time my husband and I visited the store/cafe, we sat inside.  But since the weather today was just way too gorgeous to be sitting in, we were excited to have coffee with three of our good friends at the backyard garden of the cafe.  The backyard garden is like a small courtyard with lattice walls all around.  They had wooden picnic tables, plants and some splashes of colours here and there, which really made the garden vibrant.  Here are some snapshots of the garden ornaments that caught my attention.

 

I had ice coffee and a good time :)

Photos from iPhone3GS

A rainbow, a river and the rain

We went on a camping trip a week ago at Lorne, along the Great Ocean Road.  There are times when I yearn to be out of the city, at the very least be amongst the vast landscape, with scenic hills, grass and trees, and water... and Lorne has bits of these.  The 2 hour roadtrip to Lorne was as much enjoyable as being there in Lorne itself.  The weekend that we went it was expected to rain - but we went anyway.  Yes, it was drizzling most of the times, but the rain on that Friday afternoon brought out a beautiful rainbow.  And if I'm seeing this correctly, there was another rainbow there as well.

 

Despite the rain, I think all of us that went truly enjoyed being there... setting up the tents in the rain, cooked and ate in the 'undecided' weather pattern of rain and shine alternating like very five minutes, and we made sure we made the best of it all.  With hot drinks, hot food, chairs and mats, umbrellas and raincoats, card and board games, and hanging out with great companies was all that we probably needed (and also the fact that I brought a long my laptop and we ended up watching a movie in the tent while it was raining and made caramel popcorn using the electric pan!).  And with all that, I am pretty sure everyone had a one-of-a-kind camping experience.

Even our breakfast was somewhat luxurious, don't you think? :)