My blog - January 2009
Week 5: One Month Completed
January 31st 2009, 5:27pm
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Week 4
January 23rd 2009, 11:08am
This 365 day photo project is getting harder. Partly because I've been going to work earlier, so by half past ten I'm not really feeling like going driving to find a photograph. However, on the plus side, it's made me take a look around the house for photographs, and I've ended up taking some close-ups which I quite like.
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My Favourite Film
January 18th 2009, 10:02pm
At Church this morning, Nick asked what our favourite film was. I forget why (sorry Nick). But it got me thinking, and to start with I couldn't really think of a favourite. I know it used to be Shawshank Redemption, and while it's still one of my favourites, I don't think it would come top of the list any more. Although I still really enjoy the look on the prison warden's face when he rips Rita Hayworth off the wall.
Generally, I'm not a very extreme kind of person, so I don't have a lot of favourites. Ok, so if I've taken a load of photographs, it's often reasonably easy to pick a favourite, because most of them will be decidedly average, and probably only one will really stand out. If any. But if I tried to pick a favourite photograph from a hundred photos taken by great photographers, I'd have a much harder choice to make. I'm more likely to say that some are kind of better than others, and I don't like some so much. But picking a favourite, hmm, that's a bit to extreme for me!
However, I think I do know what my favourite film would have to be. It's The Matrix. It's only The Matrix if you ignore the sequels; just pretend they were never made. I've watched that film probably more than twenty times, and I still haven't got bored of it yet. I can't think of any other films that I've been able to watch that often.
I bet that I'll have changed my mind by tomorrow though.
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Week 3
January 16th 2009, 9:54am
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Week 1 Completed: Bring on Week 2
January 8th 2009, 10:46pm
So I managed to complete the first week of my 365 day project. It wasn't incredibly hard to do, and I'm pretty pleased with most of the first seven pictures. I can see it getting much harder in the future; tonight I had to go for a drive to find a picture because I hadn't got anything worthwhile during the day, and there's only so many times I can go and photograph Kenilworth Castle. Also, because I got mostly pretty good pictures in the first week, I'll find it difficult allowing myself to post a lower quality picture. On the other hand, I've looked at some of the photographs people have posted to 365 groups on flickr, and a lot of them are of much, much higher standard than my photos!
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Comment posted by kb at 10:46pm on January 8th 2009
Since seeing your commitment to the 365 plan, I decided to give it a whirl as well.
So far, I've only missed one day (and it wasn't really "missed", I just used someone else's camera, so I don't have the photos yet).
I've been already thinking about similar ideas, and adding some sort of additional project that is keyed to a specific subject... like taking a sunset photo everyday, regardless of the quality of that day's sunset, where I am or what camera I have with me (iPhone, P&S or D80).
I think I would learn a lot, improve my photography skills and also come to appreciate different subjects this way.
Perhaps it would be neat (given your family's stage) to post a photo every day of the growing child. I bet by his/her birthday, you'd be pretty pro at taking shots of a pregnant woman!
Comment posted by Nathan at 10:46pm on January 8th 2009
I like the idea that it's not always easy to find a picture each day, and that sometimes you had to go out and search for one. It's surely the same for any daily rhythm, any habit, that once you've committed to it's practise, some days it presents a challenge, but, of course, what an interesting collection you'll have by the end of it - a true snapshot of one year of your life.
My equivalent, is to find inspiration, to search for meaning in the mundane of each day, to distil beauty from the world around me, as if collecting berries, or manna each morning.
Thomas R. Smith says, "Whatever happens is our daily bread." We feed our souls from whatever we can extract from the days dealings, we collect gleanings that God leaves for us to find.
Today, looking at your photographs is some of my daily bread. Cheers.
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Week 1
January 1st 2009, 5:36pm
So here's my first photo of the 365 day project. This story will hopefully update itself during the week to show the rest of the week's photos too, assuming I have written my blog code properly, and you're not viewing this in an RSS reader or on facebook.
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