Project 365: Day 22

Rubicube, originally uploaded by Heidi Meintjes.

I looked everywhere today (not that I've been a lot of places seeing it's month end) for a nice shape or pattern to take a photo of but I battled. Then tonight we were sitting in the lounge waiting for the estate agent when I picked up the Rubicube and I immediately knew that my search was over.

I've had a love/hate relationship with the rubicube forever! I started playing with it in Primary school and finally in Std 7 (Grade 9) I figured it out and I could solve it within a minute (can't remember the exact stats). But as with most things as soon as I solved it I lost interest and now years later I picked it up again and I know myself, I won't rest until I can solve the puzzle again. I can tell you though that it might take longer this time, my brain is not as sharp as it used to be - with today's technology I really think we neglect exercising our thinking caps! Maybe one day you'll see a wrinkled old lady sitting on a bench in the park trying to solve this - it will be me.

Project 365: Day 21

Circle, originally uploaded by Heidi Meintjes.

This is an interesting photo.

I took it tonight after looking around for something for quite a while. See, I decided to challenge myself a bit and take photos of shapes this week.

I eventually took a photo of a placemat, and as it was boring I added a bit of radial blur and bumped up the saturation a bit.

It's quite an interesting effect, I think it will make quite a nice print on canvas - might try it out (the circles almost look like it was formed with oil paint and a brush)