120/365 Yum!!!

Today was a busy day. We went to the specialist again today. Everything checks out with the baby. She is 35 weeks now, so not much longer to go! After we went to this new bakery in town that had some wonderful looking cookies and cupcakes. So we purchased a few. This one is a Raspberry Lemonade cupcake. It tasted very good. We took a relaxing evening to calm down from our busy day and watched some NBA playoffs. Anyways, here is the photo:

119/365 Keeps on going...

Well, if it were not for my AB Energizer battery, I probably would not have made it past these last two days with it being the final week of school. Its almost the weekend, so hopefully I can catch up on some much needed rest and recharge my battery.

118/365 Lights on but no ones home...

Today was my last film class of the semester. I still have two more photography classes and one last test in my online class. So the spring semester is almost over! Yeah! I dont really know what I was going for in this photo. Thought it looked kinda funny, but when my wife saw it she said, "oh, like the lights on but no ones home..." Well thanks sweetie for that one... LOL. If you look closely you can see my eye.

117/365 Heartless...

Just a title... I am far from it I would hope. Just had an idea and went with it. It proved to be harder then I thought. And I still think it does not look all that good. Oh well. Thats how we learn right? By trying things out... That is what this 365 project is about anyways. I think the inner "walls" of where the heart shape is could be more convincing for sure. I wish I had the time to put into this photo to make it look more convincing, but since I need to get some sleep and I was playing around with this photo for far too long, I ended my editing with this. I at least like the lighting! LOL

116/365 Golf!!!

Well, I used to be a huge golfer. I wanted to be a playing pro on the PGA. However after getting married, I think those wants changed. It was hard the first year or so of our marriage when I was always on the course practicing. So I changed my priorities. Kind of have to when its not just you anymore. But I still play a bunch. Ever since I started shooting photography professionally last year, I have not really had the time to get out on the course to play golf with everything that is going on in my life. I finally got out on the course today and played for the first time since last August. For those of you who play golf I shot +3. Not bad for not being on a course for that long. I still have a ton of fun playing, but its just for fun and competing for fun. Well here is the shot for today:

115/365 Balancing act

Does life ever feel like a balancing act? It has been for me ever since I started shooting photography professionally. As of yet, if you have been following my 365, you would know I don't shoot full time yet. I wish I did, but some day I will. I have not been at it professionally too long though, so I am not too worried. Jobs are coming in, so thats good right? Coming up I will have a very hard balancing act because my day job schedule is changing, probably for the worst, and then when school starts in the fall, then it will be an extreme balancing act. But such is life right? Gotta do, whatcha gotta do. Especially when a baby is going to be here in the next few weeks! Well here is my pic for today:

114/365 My wife's Birthday

Today is my wife's birthday. We celebrated last night for the most part, but today I went and got her a bundt from Noting-Bundt-Cakes. They are really good! Gave her a birthday gift too. We are about to lay down and watch another movie. Here is todays pic!

113/365 Simple

Tomorrow is my wife's birthday, but because I have a photoshoot we celebrated tonight. Earlier today we went to the doctors again. Things are still progressing with the baby. She has not been feeling well lately though, so for the most part she is supposed to stay down. We are about to watch a movie and get some sleep. So today I did this simple head shot:

112/365 Poor, poor yellow shirt Chase

Poor, poor yellow shirt Chase. He is always being picked on.

111/365 I Am Legend

I kind of like taking a photo of myself and compositing it into another photo for a surreal look. Here is one I decided to do today. Kinda I am Legend feel to it! That is also a good movie. I have been wanting to do a photo that has this feel to it for a while. I did one a while back and composited myself into a beautiful sunset, but still was not the feel I was looking for. So what do you think? Do you like this style of photography? Its not a specialty of mine, I know there are photographers that are very good at it, but I still like to mess around doing this.

110/365 Dang allergies...

Its allergy season for me, so I set my pills out on my dresser so I remember to take it every morning. However I totally forgot to take them today on my way out to work. I had an allergy attack and it sucked! Runny nose, tickle, sniffles, congested... not fun! On top of that my work only had these sandpaper type tissues, so over the course of work today my nose became really raw from having to blow my nose! Now it hurts and is all red. Horrible! Hope I can remember to take them on my way out tomorrow.

109/365 Dark

Today we went to the doctor again. Yes we are going every week to two different doctors. After my wife was craving a little treat so we stopped at Target and purchased a few things. One of those things was for me. I, for some reason lately, have gotten to like dark chocolate. I recently tried 70% Cocoa dark chocolate and thought it was very good. Then today I saw 90%! Wow, I had no idea they made it that dark. I had to get it. Well I can tell you I have to eat it little at a time. It will probably take me a while to finish it all, its so bitter, but I like it. Anyone else had it this dark?

108/365 Playoffs...

Well, the playoffs are going on right now. Not that I am a super bball fan, but I am known to cheer on my team here and there. Mostly in the playoffs though. During normal season I usually only catch a game if others are watching it. I dont think my team is going to get past the first round though. Oh well. Its just nice to see them in it most every year. I shot this pic while at my parents tonight. I brought my set up over there and was shooting for my final project in school that requires me to shoot my family members. So here is my shot for the day!

107/365

Dont know how many of you have been keeping track of my pictures since day one, but if you remember this photo then you know that I hate both shaving, and facial hair. Wow, isn't that just weird? I hate facial hair, but I wont shave because I hate shaving too! But I love a silky smooth face. So now, it looks like, going back over my photos, that its been since day 92 since I shaved. Its really itchy right now. Just go shave already and get it over with! My wife hates the hair also! Anyways I thought I would share my uncomfortable situation with you all. Thanks for checking out my work!

106/365 Six-fingered man

My father was slaughtered by a six-fingered man. He was a great swordmaker, my father. When the six-fingered man appeared and requested a special sword. My father took the job. He slaved a year before it was done...

...The six-fingered man returned and demanded it, but at one tenth his promised price, my father refused. Without a word, the six-fingered man slashed him through the heart. I loved my father. So naturally, I challenged his murderer to a duel. I failed. The six-fingered man left me alive, but he gave me these scars...

...I was eleven years old. And when I was strong enough, I dedicated my life to the study of fencing. So the next time we meet, I will not fail. I will go up to the six-fingered man and say, "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

What movie could this be? Its a good one! Here is my picture to go along with the quotes!

105/365 High Jump!

So when I got home from school tonight, my dog came up to me and said "hey dad (thats right he speaks english), lets play". So I had the idea to show all of you how high he can really jump! Because to me, this is high. Anyone else have a small dog that has hops? Oh, he also speaks some spanish, french, and of course, since he is an Italian Greyhound, he speaks fluent Italian! Thanks for stopping by!

104/365 A little tickle

I got the opportunity today to shoot with Kevin Winzeler. If you have not seen his work, go check it out! His commercial work is amazing! It was very nice to just follow him around and do some shooting with him. After that I just came home and relaxed. It was a very nice day overall

103/365 Stabbed!

Ok, so before you go down and look at this photo, I should tell you a bit about it. In no way does this photo portray how my wife feels about me or I her. I had to shoot some photos for a project at school, and this was one of the ideas. Turned out pretty good I think. Kinda creepy and dark, but that was the topic for the assignment at school. So I shot this, and we headed out to meet a pediatrician that will now be our baby's pediatrician. Then I went from there to school. I had time to finish up the photo, and this is now what it looks like. What do you think?

102/365 The punt

Well, I am still playing Mr. Mom. When I got home from work, my wife had a shopping list for me. So I headed to the store and picked up some groceries. I am not too used to finding things in the store, so what would have taken my wife maybe at most an hour, took me probably two hours. But I still found everything she had on the list. So it was a rather long successful trip! Well here is what came to mind today!

101/365 Hasselblad jump!

This is the view through the lens of a hasselblad! Didn't really know what to do while being looked at through the hasselblad so I jumped! It turned out pretty good! Not much happened today. Just watch Phil rock it at the Masters, and hung with the fam!

100/365 Triple Digits!!!

Wow. A 100 days of faithfully taking a picture every day and posting! Crazy to think I have gone this far and still going strong! I wont lie, its been hard some days to think of ideas. But those days are going to happen. So we just keep moving forward! Crazy to think I am in the triple digits. Thanks for everyone that has been keeping a watch on my photos and made a comment or sent a message about it. I love the support and it sure has been fun!

I had this crazy idea today that would probably have taken all day to shoot and edit, and I really had not time for that, so I collaborated with my wife and came up with a simpler solution! I waited in the car with our dog while my wife went in to purchase these three balloons and also a huge birthday balloon for our little niece who just turned three. When my wife came out with the balloons, both of the zero balloons came off the string and were carried away by the wind! Apparently the store people didn't tie them too well. My wife went in and said "here are the strings, can I get more balloons". They were kind enough to replace them. This time she walked out with the zeros in a huge bag so they could not do the same thing again.

Also look for my website to be up soon http://www.chaselester.com it should be up in the next couple of days. But please mind the newness of the site. Things will still be getting organized and photos added and dropped as I get it looking how I want it to. But I am excited for it to be up as it has said "coming soon" for quite sometime now. Now for the photo!

99/365 Mr. Mom

Well, this was shot before the midnight bell. Just getting to posting it now. Well this picture has a story behind it. My wife has been put on complete bed rest again. She is 32 weeks along. We went to see the specialist again today, and everything looks good on the ultrasound and the baby is growing normally. However, today was the first day of stress free testing. Come to find out that the pains my wife thought was just the baby pushing up against her stomach, is actually contractions. She had quite a few during the test. She also had them all day yesterday. They of course dont want to deliver yet, so she is now once again on full bed rest. They told her that staying down will keep the contractions down for now. But we are to watch them carefully incase we need to go to Labor and Delivery at the hospital. Hopefully we make it to 35 weeks, though I think they want to see her really make it at least to 38. So once I again, I resume the roll as Mr. Mom:

98/365

Had some awesome shoots today. First one was an infant, and she was very very cute! After that shoot I had to do some for school for a group project. So with some other fellow class mates, we met in the schools studio and did a bunch of fun shots for the assignment. Here is one of those shots:

97/365 Ballon Head

Have any of you ever had your head stuck in a balloon? Its really hard to breath, thus the needle! I am having a hard time lately thinking about things to do for my project. I am going to blame it on my busyness right now. But soon school will be out, and I will have more time to dedicate to what I want to do. I have ideas, but the time its going to take to shoot and edit some of them are probably more time then I have in the next week or two. So those ideas are on hold. So I walked in the studio today, wondering what to do, saw a balloon on the floor, and this is what came to mind:

96/365 Exposure

Not too much to report for today. Did two tests today, and took a photo. Had another Dr. appointment with my wife for the baby. We are going to have quite a bit to finish out her pregnancy. They will be doing a non-stress test to make sure the baby is happy in the tummy. If he is not happy, then he gets to come out early, which hopefully is not before three and a half more weeks. My wife will be past the preemie stage at that time (35 weeks) Anyways, thanks for stopping by! Leave a comment if you so feel inclined!

95/365 The dog is a licker

Thats right, don't get too close to my dog or you might just get a kiss or fifty! Lol. He has been a kisser since day one! He just loves to give loves! But he is a cute boy anyways. He is a retired fake racer. We used to pretend he was a racer. He got to run at a dog track a few times while being trained to race, but we decided not have him continue on. He is the fasted dog you never met, but Italian greyhounds are fast anyways. But my dog Gus here, looks built to run because he has the longest legs of any Italian Greyhound I have seen! One day I will upload a pic of him standing. He loves to run. But loves to cuddle also. He enjoys long walks on a rainy beach....lol Jk, to todays pic!

94/365 Portrait

Happy Easter weekend everyone! Its been a good one. And the meals were delicious! I wish it were Easter every weekend! Got to hang with family from both sides (the wife's and mine). For todays photo, I thought I would just do a simple portrait! Thanks for stopping by and checking it out! What were all of you up to this weekend?

93/365

What a great day! It was really kinda busy though. But I got some pictures done for my end of semester school project. I am doing it on family. So I am taking portraits of each family member individually to show the uniqueness of each person in the family. So I was able to get some of the family shot on my wife's side today. After I was done with all the portraits today this was an idea I was wanting to shoot for a while now. The last time my wife was in the picture for me was 55 days ago and here she is again much more pregnant! Things are going well. She is not so much on bed rest as she used to be, but she still is on a somewhat bed rest. She is now 31 weeks along, so not too much longer to go... Well here she is with me for day 93!

92/365 Man in the Mirror...

Hello knife... we meet again! Something strait out of a horror movie! Man in the Mirror. You wont catch him because he knows right when you are going to look up and the reflection will turn right back to yourself! Watch out... Knife in the back!!!

91/365 Long legs!

I was messing around after photography class with a fellow student and she shot this of me. The light that you actually see in the left of the picture is not actually firing in this shot. It was not supposed to and didnt really need to be in the photo. But this shot is still very cool! Its really fun to see what you can do with little strobes!