28 posts categorized "30DayPhoto"
11 March 2006
Henry
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10 March 2006
Posie is More Than Cozy
My 30 Day Photo Challenge Flickr Set
I chose this photo for today, because I wanted to quote Posie Gets Cozy, and I thought she might like this little domestic image. I found this blog via David Kline, at The Well. This is just a brief exerpt from a long, amazing post:
. . . I don't remember many, many things about the hospital, but I remember that moment, when we laughed. I had a vision about the world when I was there. It came to me one night as if a little door opened and I looked through and eavesdropped on the truth. I saw that the world was constantly falling apart, it was always in a state of little things always falling apart, and then there were these brigades of individual human angels, with kind eyes, apples and stitches, repairing, fixing, mending, patting, bandaging the wounds of the world, and putting it back together, piece by tiny piece. I hadn't known that repair was done on a gestural level, a cellular one . . .
. . . I absolutely do not believe that everything happens for a reason; I never did, and I still don't. I believe that we fashion sense out of the things that happen, and create a kind of meaning in the result. And at the end of the day, you just gotta plow on through! There is no time to waste or worry . . .
Good writing, and a fun blog. And things to buy -- what else could one ask for?
Oh! And she used to live in Montana!
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09 March 2006
08 March 2006
Blue Leaf
My 30 Day Photo Challenge Flickr Set. I had a hard time choosing today, which no doubt means I should have taken more photos, until I had one that was unquestionably good. But it's late; I'm tired; blue leaf will have to do. And it's only day eight!
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07 March 2006
Beginners & Experts
Via Lifehacker, I've found a great new blog (as if I could keep up with those I've already found): Creating Passionate Users. It was a post there -- How to be an expert -- that gave me just that little push I needed to jump into the 30 Day Photo Challenge:
... the research says that if we were willing to put in more hours, and to use those hours to practice the things that aren't so fun, we could become good. Great. Potentially brilliant. We need, as Restak refers to it, "a rage to master." ...
... there is some thought that to be, literally, THE best in the world at chess, or the violin, or math, or programming, or golf, etc. you might indeed need that genetic special something. But... that's to be THE best. The research does suggest that whatever that special sauce is, it accounts for only that last little 1% that pushes someone into the world champion status. The rest of us--even without the special sauce--could still become world (or at least national) class experts, if we do the time, and do it the right way ...
Not, mind you, that I plan on becoming an expert, professional photographer; I don't. That kind of energy I save for poems. But I suspect that working creatively in one medium enhances work in another, and I would be pleased to see both my photographs and my poems improve.
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06 March 2006
30 Days of Photos
From SyncSpeed, via Performancing.com:
Everyone wants to join the 30 Days of Photos Challenge. You can too. The purpose of this challenge is to just get out there shooting. So many of us just plain don’t take the time to take photos. What better way to jump-start our hobby than trying to one-up our fellow photographers by posting a photo every day. Now, the hard part isn’t taking a photo each day. It’s trying to get a photo worth showing every day. I, for one, am interested in how long each person can keep up with worthy photos. This exercise is really going to stretch our imaginations and creative ability . . .
Hmm. As if I'm not already stretching my energy further than it wants to go. But -- I like this challenge. It's one I'm willing to accept at my own skill level, which is clearly far below the other participants. I'm going to tell you in another post why I think that's OK.
A slight fudge -- pretending this photo was taken on the first of March instead of February 28th -- and I can begin with photos already taken:
Pencil shavings
March 2:
Toothpick holder
March 3: The interesting squirrel
March 4:
Park bench
March 5:
Leftovers ~ found in the squirrel feeder
Now I shall have to pay even more attention to what I see. A good practice at all times.
Click the photos to go to larger ones at Flickr. There is also a Flickr group for this challenge. Here is my 30 Day Photo Challenge Flickr Set.
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