The Exposaroonie Challenge this week was to photograph your bad habit. Initially, I thought this one would be easy. But when I really got down to thinking about what my bad habits are, it was surprisingly hard to come up with any! Sure, I don't floss every day and I do enjoy the occasional breakfast at McDonald's, but those things aren't that bad! For the most part, I exercise regularly, eat healthy and have good hygiene.
So then I thought a little harder. Ah-ha!! My bad habit is so obvious that I'm shocked I didn't think of it earlier.
Give up?
My bad habit is SALT!! Whereas most women tend to be sweetaholics, I adore salt. Take a gander through my snack drawer at work (yes, I have a whole drawer of snacks!) and you'll find mixed nuts and pretzels and pita chips and Kool-Aid singles. Okay, so the Kool-Aid singles aren't salty, but oh man, do they bring me back to my childhood! I don't go crazy pouring salt on my food, but that's usually because the food I choose is salty to begin with. Give me a soft pretzel over a scoop of ice cream any day.
To take this picture, I poured some salt on our granite countertops, very close to the backsplash. Since our granite is Uba-Tuba, it is very dark (almost black) and has great reflective qualities. You'll be happy to learn that I've stopped using auto settings on my camera (actually, I stopped about a month ago) and I've been venturing into the scary world of manual. I can't really tell you what the settings were, because I tend to just fool around with them until I get a shot that I like, but nonetheless, it was manual! And I even made my arms and shoulders hurt from the weird position I was in to get this shot. (I tend to take about 50 shots of the same thing!) Hooray!
