Category: The Daily Shoot

  • Curved Lines

    Curved Lines

    I sell horns for making shepherd crooks, shofar, knife handles, and buttons. These are some of the curved horns from our butcher rams, waiting to be sold. Prompt: Make a photograph of a curved line or spherical surface today. Continue reading

  • Pond Edge

    Pond Edge

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    We had the cattails cleaned out of the pond. Now you can finally see the pond edge. Prompt: Make a photograph of an edge of something today. The edge of a knife, the water’s edge, or some other edge. Continue reading

  • Fiery Dragon

    Fiery Dragon

    I wanted to go over to a friend’s house and photograph some forge welding or blacksmithing, but never got the chance. So, this dragon is something that might have used fire at one time. It’s a stuffed knitted toy that a friend made for us. Prompt: Fire is dramatic, as is its effect. Make a… Continue reading

  • Stairway to Fun

    Stairway to Fun

    This is the long stairway up to the second floor of the shop, where my looms are. Prompt: Stairs and ramps lead the eye and take us places. Make a photo of a stair or ramp that you see today. (@Melhutch) Continue reading

  • Black & Red

    Black & Red

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    One of the ewes, in her winter corral and wearing a nice, new, red coat. I’ve been sewing like mad! Prompt: Let’s start out the new week by making a photo with a red point of interest. Make sure your subject really stands out. Continue reading

  • Cleaning Ditches

    Cleaning Ditches

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    I’m watching the trackhoe clean out the catch ditch from the shop window. This was the highest viewpoint I could do. Prompt: Make a photograph today of an interesting subject with as vertical or high a point of view as you can manage. Continue reading

  • Warm Room

    Warm Room

    Most bathrooms seem cold and sterile. I love our downstairs bathroom with its cedar shower stall. Prompt: Bathrooms are full of hard surfaces, textures, and personal implements. Find an inspiring photograph in a bathroom today. Continue reading

  • North Fork Horizon

    North Fork Horizon

    The grass is gone, and the trees are changing color. Our horizon view is always changing. Prompt: Make a photograph that emphasizes the horizon. It’s your choice whether to place it on the third lines or to center it. Continue reading

  • Cleaning the Barn

    Cleaning the Barn

    Red, green, and a lot of dust from cleaning out the chicken dust in the red barn. Prompt: Make a photograph that plays two complementary colors off each other today. Continue reading

  • Garden Bounty

    Garden Bounty

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    The simplest of garden pleasures: a lovely, vine-ripened tomato. Prompt: Simplicity is economy. Make the simplest photograph you can today. Take things out until you can’t remove anything else. Continue reading