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I think maybe I’m approaching Project 365 all wrong now. What I tried to explain in my previous post about it is that it’s not fun anymore; taking my daily photo is becoming one more thing on my to-do list. Because I go the same places and see the same things almost every single day, I’m not seeing anything unusual or interesting anymore.
I think that maybe I do see interesting things all the time, but it doesn’t register. I need to learn to NOTICE when I see something I like, and stop to record it, rather than letting it flow in and out of my stream of consciousness as I’m on my way to do other things.
The other thing I was thinking, along the same vein, is that I need to try harder to notice the simple beauty in everyday things. Like the curve of a tree branch, or a discarded cigarette butt, or the texture of a crack in the sidewalk. Or even like right now for example, the bottom of the lampshade in my office has a really nice curve to it. I don’t think I would usually think to take a photo of that.
I’m too worried about taking The Perfect Photo, every day is portfolio-worthy.
I wonder if it would be different if I weren’t posting my photos publicly to Flickr, where the world can view and comment on them (not that too many people have). Am I, in a sense, performing for this imagined audience, instead of really thinking about the goal of my project?
Brett suggested that I wake up 15 minutes earlier each day and take a photo in those 15 minutes. That would basically limit me to the inside of my house, for the most part… but I think that I’ll try it, and try to maybe find a part of my house that I haven’t ever seen to take a photo of each day for a week. I think that there are a LOT of individual spaces in my house I haven’t seen yet.
Yesterday Yvonne alerted me that the plants outside the front doors of our building were covered in icicles. Perhaps a sprinkler system malfunction? Anyway, they were still there this morning. I’m not sure that the temperature rose above freezing either yesterday or today.
