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Change
Producing an image a day continues to be an eye opener for me. Have had to find new and creative ways to incorporate the camera into my daily life. While some days an iphone capture is about all I have time for, I have bee increasingly finding time to really go out and explore. This particular day it was just taking my dog for a walk in the late afternoon, exploring areas on foot that I normally just pass through while driving.
Thought these two images worked well together! We may be in some tough economic times, but getting the sense that people are making the best of it! Second image taken at a auto/body shop!
Yogurt and Discipline
Went to get some frozen yogurt yesterday, was trying to visualize a shot inside the store, but was uninspired. Got into the car with melting yogurt and saw this scene! Normally I would not get out of the car and take the image, but this damn 365 project is forcing me to discipline myself into making an image every day! Anyway, I really came away with an image that I was excited about, one that I would not have made otherwise! My only regret to this is not staying 4 minute later, when these clouds turned magenta with the setting sun! Oh well, the yogurt would have melted by then and I would have had one pissed off Fiance… Priorities!!
One day at a time!
I have survived the first week of this 365 project, just posted Day 8. I can’t tell you how hard it has been to stay creative when life is in session. There have been moments where the last thing I wanted to do was create, edit and download an image… but I did anyway. Don’t want to get too much into talking about the project, don’t want to jinx it… it’s still one day at a time!!
What The??
I really don’t know what I am getting myself into, but I am challenging myself to produce an image a day for year, yes that means 365 photos in 2010! I know it sounds cliche’, but I am going to have to take this one “One Day At A TIme.” Thank god I am not doing this alone, there are about 50 others (so far) that are crazy enough to take a stab at it… on flickr (365 faded and blurred). Wish me luck! Check out my submissions here!
Gratitude
Came across this book publishing site recently by the name of Blurb, a really cool site with neat applications to build your own books. They have a feature where you can build a book from your blog posts, so I thought it would be a cool idea to make a book of my blog posts from the last year… Thats when it hit me that this blog is kind of like a personal journal of my life and my art. I will always be able to go back and see what I was creating in 2009, how my images have changed, etc.
Also grateful to have been invited to go out early Thanksgiving morning to shoot in San Pedro, the light was absolutely beautiful!
Taking a break
Sometimes I get so caught up in the action that I forget to stop and look at the landscape, then proceed to get frustrated that I can’t seem to get the images that I am looking for. Was out shooting some friends at the skatepark this morning when I realized that I was just getting the same old shots. Instead of continuing to shoot like I often would, decided to take a break and just kind of walk around a little bit. After taking a sip of coffee (morning stoke) I stumbled on this elegant wave-like feature in the pool, took a couple shots and proceeded to figure out how to incorporate this feature into the shoot.
Reflections
I find myself shooting so much lately, that I can’t keep up to date. I start editing one roll/import – then before I am able to finish I shoot something else – edit again – and forget about the one that I was just working on – a vicious cycle no doubt!
On the other hand, have realized that with a little grace period between shooting and editing I am able to get rid of some of the attachments that might have caused me to overlook some quality images. For example, this was an image that I saw while I was eating at a Subway in San Francisco, I forgot I even took it, and overlooked it in the initial editing process. Once I took a closer look, I noticed the reflection of the man in the window reaching into the limousine, thus giving new life to a photo that I thought was just OK!
