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.
June 2, 2008
I just mentioned this morning that I've been feeling a bit too negative lately to put on a good face for my daily self-portraits, but I received a package from Amazon today that I thought was my textbook... but was a much-desired book randomly gifted to me by a faraway friend!
My jaw should be tired of falling on the floor at this point. I know that friendship is not about getting Stuff or giving Stuff, but it's about the thought. And lately (like, the last 10 years) I have been wrung out and completely out of Thoughts and I feel like a bad friend. But it makes me feel so wonderful inside - wonderful and humble - to have such loving, caring, intelligent people in my life. I feel as though I don't deserve them but of course I'm not going to make any one of them go away. ;)
Thank you, Beth. So much. For everything. For always being you.
I just mentioned this morning that I've been feeling a bit too negative lately to put on a good face for my daily self-portraits, but I received a package from Amazon today that I thought was my textbook... but was a much-desired book randomly gifted to me by a faraway friend!
My jaw should be tired of falling on the floor at this point. I know that friendship is not about getting Stuff or giving Stuff, but it's about the thought. And lately (like, the last 10 years) I have been wrung out and completely out of Thoughts and I feel like a bad friend. But it makes me feel so wonderful inside - wonderful and humble - to have such loving, caring, intelligent people in my life. I feel as though I don't deserve them but of course I'm not going to make any one of them go away. ;)
Thank you, Beth. So much. For everything. For always being you.
June 2, 2008
I just mentioned this morning that I've been feeling a bit too negative lately to put on a good face for my daily self-portraits, but I received a package from Amazon today that I thought was my textbook... but was a much-desired book randomly gifted to me by a faraway friend!
My jaw should be tired of falling on the floor at this point. I know that friendship is not about getting Stuff or giving Stuff, but it's about the thought. And lately (like, the last 10 years) I have been wrung out and completely out of Thoughts and I feel like a bad friend. But it makes me feel so wonderful inside - wonderful and humble - to have such loving, caring, intelligent people in my life. I feel as though I don't deserve them but of course I'm not going to make any one of them go away. ;)
Thank you, Beth. So much. For everything. For always being you.
I just mentioned this morning that I've been feeling a bit too negative lately to put on a good face for my daily self-portraits, but I received a package from Amazon today that I thought was my textbook... but was a much-desired book randomly gifted to me by a faraway friend!
My jaw should be tired of falling on the floor at this point. I know that friendship is not about getting Stuff or giving Stuff, but it's about the thought. And lately (like, the last 10 years) I have been wrung out and completely out of Thoughts and I feel like a bad friend. But it makes me feel so wonderful inside - wonderful and humble - to have such loving, caring, intelligent people in my life. I feel as though I don't deserve them but of course I'm not going to make any one of them go away. ;)
Thank you, Beth. So much. For everything. For always being you.
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