Quarters Falling in Water

So Q came up and Quarters falling in a glass dish full of green water came to mind. I know! This is probably what you were thinking also because what else would one do for Q other than Quarters falling in green water!? So that is what I did and the hardest part was getting the camera to fire when I dropped the quarters. I started off trying to use my remote trigger and each time I dropped the quarters I was holding the remote at the wrong angle to even trigger the camera, so my first 3 attempts the camera did not even go off. Finally I decided I was able to reach the camera with one hand and drop the quarters in with the other hand at the same time (I actually slid them off in a row from a piece of paper I was holding so they all did not fall in one group) and that started working for me. In the end I think three of the images had some real interesting looks going on with the water but I chose this one as the water is interesting and I managed to catch one of the quarters still falling.

Pet

I figured the kids could use a break from being my subjects and I would use Strider for P as in Pet. After a few minutes of trying to get him to stay in a sitting position I was starting to second guess using the dog for my subject as he was trying my patience and wining! In the end he does a better job of staying in a laying down position and those photographs came out better anyway. I was going to use a flash however there was just enough light in the room to try this with just natural light so I left the flash off. I also had my assistant Hannah holding a piece of white foam core off to the left to bounce a little bit of light back on him.

Old camera

For O I finally came up with the idea of Old and it had nothing to do with me doing new for my last post, I actually did not think about that relation until I went to post this and saw my last post. I have a small collection of old cameras and accessories and figured one of the cameras would make a good subject. This "box" camera is an Ansco No. 2A Buster Brown. From what I could find the patents for this camera were 1906, 1910 and 1916 and the camera was sold up until around the early 1920's. Not sure just how old this exact one is but probably around 90-100 years old and probably worth around $5-30 so I will not be fully retiring anytime soon.