365 self portraits. Can I actually do it? Inspired by many others, I decided to give my creativity a kick in the pants with a Daily Photo project. With life happening too fast, quite often I lose the spark that drives me to pick up the camera. Hopefully I can maintain not only this project, but the ability to develop more as a photographer. Ideally, the majority of these will be self-portraits to help me get over my image complex and to document the most important, memorable moments of each day.
My rules:
1. At least part of myself in each shot. Every 24 hours.
2. EXIF data pulls rank. I travel and can't always upload on a timely matter, but the timestamp is as the timestamp does...
3. Try to document the dominant activity/event of the day. This is a journal-type project for me, too.
4. Having help is OK. While I always set up the shot myself, occasionally the location requires having someone else hit the shutter for me.
My rules:
1. At least part of myself in each shot. Every 24 hours.
2. EXIF data pulls rank. I travel and can't always upload on a timely matter, but the timestamp is as the timestamp does...
3. Try to document the dominant activity/event of the day. This is a journal-type project for me, too.
4. Having help is OK. While I always set up the shot myself, occasionally the location requires having someone else hit the shutter for me.
July 14, 2008
The last several days have been really rough - getting more and more acquainted with the new job and simultaneously writing a major research paper for my class. It's been such an interesting mental challenge juggling my education and my work, which couldn't be two more different fields!
The ripples of my ocean are slowly settling into a more familiar cadence but it doesn't make me fear the water any less. I realized today that I came from being in a big boat floating in a big sea, to being in a small boat in an even bigger sea. The strangest (to me) thing about this analogy is the fact that in this much smaller vessel I really can feel the nuances of the tide and the waves. These things were so much more efficiently insulated before.
I feel kind of small these days, so I had to use my widest lens.
The last several days have been really rough - getting more and more acquainted with the new job and simultaneously writing a major research paper for my class. It's been such an interesting mental challenge juggling my education and my work, which couldn't be two more different fields!
The ripples of my ocean are slowly settling into a more familiar cadence but it doesn't make me fear the water any less. I realized today that I came from being in a big boat floating in a big sea, to being in a small boat in an even bigger sea. The strangest (to me) thing about this analogy is the fact that in this much smaller vessel I really can feel the nuances of the tide and the waves. These things were so much more efficiently insulated before.
I feel kind of small these days, so I had to use my widest lens.
July 14, 2008
The last several days have been really rough - getting more and more acquainted with the new job and simultaneously writing a major research paper for my class. It's been such an interesting mental challenge juggling my education and my work, which couldn't be two more different fields!
The ripples of my ocean are slowly settling into a more familiar cadence but it doesn't make me fear the water any less. I realized today that I came from being in a big boat floating in a big sea, to being in a small boat in an even bigger sea. The strangest (to me) thing about this analogy is the fact that in this much smaller vessel I really can feel the nuances of the tide and the waves. These things were so much more efficiently insulated before.
I feel kind of small these days, so I had to use my widest lens.
The last several days have been really rough - getting more and more acquainted with the new job and simultaneously writing a major research paper for my class. It's been such an interesting mental challenge juggling my education and my work, which couldn't be two more different fields!
The ripples of my ocean are slowly settling into a more familiar cadence but it doesn't make me fear the water any less. I realized today that I came from being in a big boat floating in a big sea, to being in a small boat in an even bigger sea. The strangest (to me) thing about this analogy is the fact that in this much smaller vessel I really can feel the nuances of the tide and the waves. These things were so much more efficiently insulated before.
I feel kind of small these days, so I had to use my widest lens.
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