This photo grid represents my top 10 picks of photos posted for the Photography 101 course during November 2014. You can see all my photo posts in a calendar format on the Photography 101 menu tab under Photos.

It was fun sharing my photos with you during this workshop.

Our Day 20 assignment for Photography 101 was “Triumph”.

This was a photo taken after my son finished running the Austin Marathon last year. That was quite an accomplishment for him after training for months, and was very satisfying for him to actually complete it with a respectable time.

Austin Marathon

For me, on this last day of Photography 101, I feel a sense of triumph too. I had been interested in photography for a while, but hadn’t really done much about it until I decided to take this Blogging University course. The time seemed right after completing Blogging 101 and Blogging 201 where I had started and enhanced this blog. This was another great course and I learned a lot more about photography.

It has really get me interested in exploring photography further. It has enabled me to add photo blog posts all month, which broadens my blog into an another area that I wanted to include. Also, I thoroughly enjoyed viewing photos of my fellow bloggers participating in the class with me.

Our Day 19 assignment for Photography 101 was “Double”. I have included double photos of stadiums, tennis, palms, and bucks.

This photo shows double stadiums right next to each other taken from the 76th floor of Columbia Center in Seattle, Washington. They are used for the Seattle Mariners (baseball) and Seattle Seahawks (football). That night there was actually a Seattle Sounders soccer match being played. These are interesting shots when taken from so high up looking down on these stadiums.

Double Stadiums

Here we have a tennis doubles match being played in the main stadium at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden for the BNP Baripas Open which is held for two weeks every year in Indian Wells, California.

Tennis Doubles

This photos shows double palms in Thousand Palms near Palm Springs, California.

Double Palms

This last photo shows double bucks in our back yard. We have lots of white-tailed deer in our area, and we see them in our yard every day.

Double Bucks

Our Day 18 assignment for Photography 101 was “Edge”. I have included photos of various edges from a wildflower field, view up/down a 76-story skyscraper, mountain ridge, and waterfall.

This photo highlights the edge of a country field filled with yellow wildflowers in the spring near Brenham, Texas. It also shows the edges of the horizontal fence slats in the foreground.

Edge of field

In this photo, I was looking up from the base of the 76-story Columbia Center in Seattle, Washington, where I was going to attend my niece’s wedding reception on the top floor. Seeing the edge of this skyscraper from this angle illustrates just how high it is.

Looking up

From the 76th floor in the Columbia Tower Club, I took this photo looking straight down the edge of the building to the buildings, street, cars, and some people below. It really demonstrates how high it was, and complements the other photo I took looking up.

Looking down

While hiking in the Olympic National Park, I took this photo of the edge of Hurricane Ridge with other sky-capped mountains in the background.

Hurricane Ridge

This photo shows Marymere Falls falling over the edge of the cliff into a pool below. This was taken on a hike near Lake Crescent in Olympic National Park, Washington.

Marymere Falls

Our Day 17 assignment for Photography 101 was “Glass”. I took photos of several colorful glass objects – yellow, red, green, blue, and clear.

They were taken as the sun was going down so it wasn’t very bright but cast some shadows, especially with the red one. The yellow one is a Tulipa vase from Kosta-Boda in Sweden.

I took quite a few shots and tried several angles, as well as experiments with different  focus and exposure settings to see what happened. That made quite a difference, but I didn’t really know what I was doing; I need to read some more about that topic so I have a better understanding. The wine glass was added for clear glass, and so I could drink it.

Our Day 16 assignment for Photography 101 was “Treasure”, so I decided to include a photo of a geocache.

Geocaching is a real-world, outdoor treasure hunting game using GPS-enabled devices, such as an iPhone or Android phone. Participants navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find the geocache (container) hidden at that location.

The word Geocaching refers to GEO for geography, and to CACHING, the process of hiding a cache. A cache in computer terms usually refers to information stored in memory to make it faster to retrieve, but the term is also used in hiking/camping as a hiding place for concealing and preserving provisions.

While hiking up Martis Peak near Truckee, California, just north of Lake Tahoe, I stumbled upon a geocache, which I thought would be a good “Treasure” photo. Ammunition cans are commonly used for geocaches, like this one. The fire lookout near the summit offers panoramic views of Lake Tahoe and the surrounding mountains (except to the east because of the summit).

Even though it was summer, my brother-in-law got a little adventurous, went off where he shouldn’t have, and slipped on the snow and fell down a ways before being stopped by a tree; it was a very long way down, so he was really lucky.

Geocache

Here’s a brief video about Geocaching.

 
I hope you find your treasure.