Month 1 of #365aroundthesun done !
Congratulations to my fellow 365 Trip Around The Sun travelers , at close of play today we will have completed a whole month, shot and shared 31 photographs and more importantly engaged with our everyday lives photographically for 31 consecutive days !
This trip is definitely about the journey, although the idea of having a personal day to day photographic record at the end of 2020 appeals to me too !
This is the first time I have ever gone into a new year where I have hit the ground running, my personal photography normally gets caught up in the lethargy of the Christmas holidays, cold weather and a general feeling of apathy, not this year , I don’t have time for that !
I am already very happy with a number of the captures I have made this year , proving that this picture each day positive mindset is a contagion that really does payoff in the short term, as the cumulative effect of success and the small lessons learnt each day sparks ideas and new visual investigations, this would not have happened before I started this photo each day lifestyle !
The challenge on some days is to fit the photography around existing commitments , I have already included a picture from a dentist chair , admittedly its not my best capture ever but it illustrates that life itself can be the subject on those busier than usual days , my 365 photo shoot each day enables me to ring fence a bit of me - time and I’m all for that !
Although we may only be sharing one photo each day , many of us are shooting more than that , once you bring a curious mindset to a photo shoot it has to be satisfied and exhausted, all angles, lighting and variants explored, you can’t dig half a hole !
The negative aspects of the project are few, although I have to admit to taking photographic refuge within the occasional visual cliche, especially when the clock is ticking, the winter light vanishing and The Original Ideas Department closed !
I also have to admit that on the bad weather days the big challenge is getting off the sofa and doing the 365 thing, on some days just maintaining the integrity of the project and keeping the faith, is enough , although the coffee always tastes better on returning from one of my freezing winter 365 photo-shoots, I tell myself, its not a masterpiece each day, just a picture of my everyday !
I know that during 2020, I’ll always get a chance to find a better shot tomorrow …
Until next time , keep it real !
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