The Mapping Project-Ohio

Obviously not taken by me, but probably my favorite photo of me as a kid. I thought you would enjoy seeing kid Jasmin, bundled up and masquerading as a penguin!

The Mapping Project: Louisiana

I thought the perfect first photo for the mapping project would be from our first trip together, back when we skipped all of the normal friend steps and went from classroom slightly-more-than acquaintances to spontaneous trip to an art festival in NOLA buddies.  Also, because you just reminded me that it has been almost a year since we were there, having trilingual conversations, eating beignets or watching a movie about a busty 70s blond talking to animals at a hookah bar in the French Quarter.  I just recently went over these photos again, and found some that I do really like.  I'm not sure why I wrote all of them off after we got back, but they're not so bad! I posted more on my other blog because the whole point of this project is to choose one photo - so check out some more of them out at The Little Barn

Challenge: Nightscape

So I am temporarily giving up my attempt to find a good picture in the set that I took of an amazing landscape at the botanic gardens.  I failed to realize at the time I was taking them, because of general excitement and because I was in an off-limits area and was being yelled at by a security guard, that all of my pictures have a huge pole going through the middle of them.  But I was so into the scene through that I will not give in!  I will somehow find a way to scrounge a decent photo out of them.  But in the meantime, here is what was a backup nightscape, and in the name of progressing our challenges section, is now my official entry for the night picture challenge.  It doesn't quite equal your website of inspiration, but I am completely obsessed with taking pictures at night now and will continue to do so and try and work up to pictures as cool as those.
And below are some detail shots of this area, because even more spectacular than the purple light was the strange teal stripe of light that was in between the light source and the shadow of this light, which I am completely enthralled by.

Oh, America!

2 cool projects I have stumbled upon recently that we would probably have a field day doing:

ONE: The 50 States Project

http://www.50statesproject.net/

The 50 States Project has brought together 50 photographers from across the USA. Each photographer is given assignments (portrait, landscape etc.) to complete in their style and representative of their state.

How sweet is that? We can do a two state California/Colorado challenge.

TWO: The Interview Project

http://interviewproject.davidlynch.com/

A 20,000 mile, over 70 day roadtrip across and back the United States where "people have been found and interviewed."