Week 8

Another week has gone by and we are still buried under snow here in Boston. Honestly, this week wasn't as bad as before because there was no new major snowfall. We have been in an Arctic blast for a while now and the sub-zero temperatures are just not funny anymore. I know there is light at the end of this tunnel in the form of a beautiful Spring but it just seems so far away at this point. Still can't believe this is going to be the snowiest winter in the history of the city.

On the brighter side, in the last couple of days we have made so many plans for this year. I can't wait to start executing these plans. This is going to be a great year InshAllah. Also my DSLR was out for service last week so I had to make do with my iPhone and my Canon s100 for a while but glad its with me again.

Coming back to my photography project, this was week 8. I was running low on creativity and I played catch up on some days, so my photographs are very ordinary and I apologize for it. I hope I can go out more soon and bring more interesting subjects for you guys. In the meantime try to enjoy these and don't be too disappointed because I need some encouragement.

This week I have quite a few black and white(B&W) photographs and I have to say, my love for B&W photographs increases everyday. I don't know what is it about B&W photos but it makes any regular photo more eye catching and I will continue to experiment with it in the coming days.

Day 50
Q is for Quotation 

Day 51
R is for Rose

Day 52
S is for a Set of Squares

Day 53
T is for Taxi

Day 54
U is for Upside down toddler

Day 55
V is for a Vase and its reflection

Day 56
W is for Watch

Hope you have a great weekend planned for yourself. Enjoy and keep smiling :)

Week 7

This has been a great week, inspite of the continued miserable winter weather. I have been able to keep up with my daily photograph, for 7 weeks now. I am very proud of myself for doing this. For the month of February, I am doing the Alphabet theme and I had two days extra to take a photograph of anything besides the theme. It so happened that this week I used both my free passes for those Alphabet free days. One was for Valentine's Day, the other was for the baby shower for two of my really good friends who are each having baby #2. This baby shower has been in the works for a few weeks but since we kept getting snow storms, it kept getting postponed. So glad we were finally able to celebrate with our friends and now looking forward to the new arrivals :)

Going back to the Valentine's Day story. I know a lot of people think that Valentine's day is a marketing scam and people fall in the trap of buying overpriced jewelry, roses and chocolates. I think it is alright to fall into such traps for love. Yes you should love, respect and cherish your partners and loved ones all year long and express your love everyday but we all know that its easier said than done. Everyone has a busy schedule and you are just trying to do the best you can each day. So if there is a designated day that everyone knows about and you make a bigger effort to make your loved one feel special, then there is certainly nothing wrong with it. Go crazy splurging if you want to. I know no body would mind that one bit :) I had a perfect Valentine's day outing with my amazing hubby and son. We went out for a fancy brunch in the city and I got to pick up a piece of jewelry on the way back. I am one lucky gal that's for sure.

Hope you all had a great day with your loved ones. We sometimes get carried away in our daily lives and don't let our family know how much they mean to us, especially if you live far away from them. So, take some time to let them know how much you love them. 

Enjoy this week's photographs!

Day 43
L is for Lamp's Light Reflection

Day 44

M is for Morning

Day 45
Valentine's Day Special

Day 46
N is for 'Never ending snow in New England'

Day 47
O is for an O made of Cheeri-Os via fish-eye

Day 48
The Baby Shower cake for my friends Nicole and Christine

Day 49
P is for postcards

Have a nice day. Take care of yourself and people around you. 

Week 6

Hello Friends!

This week was a bit tough with us being home bound more than usual because of the insane amount of snow. We have had 3 big storms in the last 3 weeks and innumerable light snow days. It becomes a bit difficult to keep a toddler busy and while trying to do that and keeping a house running normally, I was unable to take new photos for everyday of the week. I ended up using two old photos as filler that I took a while back. The first one is the E for Eye photo which is one of my favorite photo of my son, Zain. The other is Day 41 photo of the train passing by. The latter was taken during one of our Christmas time outings.

I hope you enjoy the rest of the wintery photos of the week. Enjoy the weekend and keep checking out my blog. Thanks!

Day 36
E is for Eye

Day 37
F is for Fence

Day 38
G is for Gold and Gemstones

Day 39
H is for Horizontal lines

Day 40
I is for Icicles

Day 41
J is for Journey

Day 42
K is for Key

Week 5

Oh boy! What a week it has been? We were having such a nice mild winter and then boooom we got hit by the blizzard Juno and got 2 feet of snow dumped on us. I've been in Boston for over 3 years and yes the winters can be a bit harsh but this one has become the craziest one. It is because of the fact that it started out as a really mild winter and with hardly any snow which is unusual for Boston but then it just took a U-turn and since then its been snowing day in and day out and it feels like we are living in Alaska or something.

So I guess for the next few weeks there are going to be just snow photos or indoor ones because of lack of other activity. Also in my 365 Project I took up a mini challenge for the month of February. 

This is how it works:

28 days in February

• One photo for every letter of the alphabet
• Two wild cards days

Photos could either be of the letter, something beginning with the letter, a technique that starts with the letter like blank and white etc.

I am enjoying the challenge so far. Let's hope I can continue with it.

Day 29
The cutest snowman in the world is in our backyard

Day 30
I feel so blessed to have this amazing view right in our backyard.... Never get tired of looking at it

Day 31
My almost 15 month old having a go at tearing some tissue paper and creating a mess

Day 32
A is for Abstract

Day 33
B is for Bear

Day 34
C is for Candles

Day 35
D is for Dairy

Have a great week and to my local friends stay warm and don't let the snow bring you down :) See you next week!

Week 4

This marks the end of week 4 and I am pleased with my efforts so far. It is extra work daily for sure but I think at the end of the day I am glad I am doing something to make me happy. I think I needed this for my sanity. I love being a mom and being around my son, watching him learn new things everyday but I also want some me time activity and this is exactly that. 

Here are my collection of photographs for the week. Every week I think I will put in more effort and describe how each day went by and what was my reason behind the photo I posted but I don't get around to doing that and a caption has to suffice for now. 

Day 22
Steve Blunt entertained the little kids with songs and dance at our local library.

Day 23
Sick day; with me, hubby and baby all not feeling well so this is the best I could

Day 24
It kept snowing all day but then you get these amazing subject right outside in your backyard

Day 25
We were fighting a bit of cold/flu still so just went out to have dinner and found these cows grazing the snowy fields 

Day 26
Snowed in still so decided to play popping bubbles with my son and I got inspired for my day's photo

Day 27
Thats how you enjoy your evening after a blizzard with a hot cup of hot chocolate 

Day 28
Surprised hubby with this dinner made by me

Hope you have a fantastic week and I will be back next week with another update!

Week 3

I cannot believe it has been three weeks since I took up this enormous project. Its one of the signs of the end of times that time will go by very quickly and I feel it is becoming very true now. Anyway, I know some of you might think hey whats the big deal about this project? All you have to do is take a photograph once a day, right!  Well that is the case but the thing to remember is, I have to pick up my DSLR everyday and try to learn new things and then experiment with it and that requires motivation, effort, some creativity and most of all "Time". The last one is the hardest to find especially when you have a toddler running around all day and you are trying to play catch up. So some days just for the lack of time I end up using a random iPhone picture as a filler. I am trying to not use my iPhone camera a lot for this project because that would defeat the purpose really.

So up until now, I really wasn't working with any theme in mind for the week or day but I think once the initial novelty wears off, I might have to come up with something. This week I did end up taking two similar photographs because I was trying to learn the sun flare and since it happened to be sunny most of the week, I tried to play around with it a couple of times.

Here are this week's photographs:

Day 15
This boy kept staring at me while I was taking photographs of my son so I decided to take his as well

Day 16
The dessert spread at my friend's dinner party

Day 17
Guess where I came across these lanterns? Our local mall

Day 18
Some daisies brought home to brighten up the long and cold winter days

Day 19
Saw these flock of Canada Geese while driving by so I had to stop and capture them ofcourse

Day 20
I decided to stop by my favorite reservation to take in this beautiful sunny day

Day 21
Today we stayed home so I had to improvise and made this Dragon jewelry box my subject.

Hope you enjoyed these! See you next week :)

Week 2

The photography journey continues.....

I tried to stay dedicated the whole week. It was only today that I did not pick up my real camera to take a photograph but hey iPhone camera is not too bad right and it does count as photography :p

Here are this week's photographs:

Day 8
Trees and snow in our backyard

Day 9
It only snowed enough to coat a layer over everything outside 

Day 10
Shopping day ended with a new piece of jewelry

Day 11
Baby yawning because he's bored and sleepy. I decided to test my selective coloring skills here.

Day 12
This photograph reminds me of the song "raindrops keep falling on my head" which literally kept happening that day

Day 13
Went to our local ice cream shop which has this antique tractor on display

Day 14
Last day of the week, I was lacking some motivation and feeling very much like my baby here

Hope you enjoyed my week long activity. I'll be back next week with more, till then take care my friends.