I started a new project this year on Flickr, one I've never done but I'm enjoying it b/c it's just ... for me. :) I can pick and choose what I shoot each day - and every week I am using a different lens - starting with the lenses that I use the least. This week it was my 50 mm 1.4. It's a great way to learn and meet other photographers and I'm really, really super excited about what I'll gain, more personally than skill-wise, over the next year. The purpose of the group is to post one photo each day for the entire 365 days in the year. I am pretty sure you are supposed to take a new photo each day and then post it. I am sure this will be interesting during busy season - but I'm finding that each day I do it, I appreciate something little about whatever visual find I am working with. So many beautiful things to be discovered in the simple and ordinary objects of day to day life.
Many times when I am pressed by deadlines and busy work, I forget - even though I am doing what I love - what it is to photograph quiet objects as such. If I fail to acknowledge these things.. then I've failed at the task that I wanted most to happen in my life a year ago which was... to simplify.
Here are the first 10 days of simplification. :)
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| 365.1 DeBrand Chocolates |
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| 365.2 Cold Glass |
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| 365.3 Antique Buggy |
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| 365.4 Sweet Clementine |
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| 365.5 Cinnamon Bundle |
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| 365.6 Leftover Sea Maiden Grass |
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| 365.7 Nobody Puts "Baby" in the Corner |
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| 365.8 Alaskan Sea Asparagus & Smoked Coho Salmon |
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| 365.9 Sunday Morning |
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| 365.10 Salix Discolor |
