Today was the grand opening of Shirlington’s newest restaurant: Samuel Beckett’s Irish Gastropub.  I meant to take photos of the brilliant fire-engine-red (my favorite shade of red) facade, but it was so freakin’ cold out tonight, I just couldn’t bare to be outside one second longer than necessary.

This week, Lighting Essentials asks us to do some self-reflecting about photography:

What do you want to do photographically? Tell us with a single paragraph what you want to be able to do with your images. Tell us what you do without telling us you are a photographer. Accompany that message with a single image taken around your home. Inside or out, make a photograph that adds insight into the mission statement you will be writing.

This morning, I worked on my assignments for Lighting Essentials and MCP Actions‘ separate 52 Week projects.  They just so happen to be the same this week – shooting something around the house.  LE asks us to use our immediate environment to elaborate on a mission statement.  I’ll have that up later this week.  But I wanted to post a few outtakes up here.