Three Hundred Sixty Five.
After I finished my first 365 project, I wrote a really long post about how it had effected my life in a positive way and thanking everyone for their support. It seems a bit redundant to do that again now. I will say, though, that this second year didn't change me. I changed during the course of the project, but it wasn't a result of this project. It was a result of my life changing drastically during my first year of marriage. Some of those changes were shared publically on my daily posts. Many of them were not. But to those of you who have been here all along the way, giving me support and smiles when I needed them and listening to me vent and ramble when I needed that too - whether you knew the challenges I was facing or not - thank you. It means more than you probably know.
The beauty of a project like this is that it forces you to stay consistent. So while the rest of my world was swirling around me, while I was dealing with major changes and challenges in every other aspect of my life, I was forced to come back to this project every day and that kept me somewhat grounded.
I think I'm done with 365 projects now. After completing two years of self portraits and one year of a picture a day, I'm feeling kind of over the time constraints and rigidity. That said, I definitely have a new project coming up that I'm really excited about. It won't be a daily thing, but knowing me, it will probably result in fairly frequent posting. I may even invite a few of my friends to participate along with me if they're interested. I also have some really cool ideas for new series that I've been tossing around for quite some time. They involve some elaborate crafting/building on my part, though, so it may take me a bit before I get them off the ground. But they're in the works...
I'll close by saying thank you to all of you immensely talented photographers and artists who have inspired me over the past year and will no doubt continue to do so well into the foreseeable future. Watching you push your limits and experiment with styles of photography that I can only hope to come close to replicating one day has provided me with so much creative motivation to keep pushing myself, you have no idea. Thank you a thousand times over.
That's all she wrote, folks! Stick a fork in this project. I'm done.
Three Hundred Sixty Five.
After I finished my first 365 project, I wrote a really long post about how it had effected my life in a positive way and thanking everyone for their support. It seems a bit redundant to do that again now. I will say, though, that this second year didn't change me. I changed during the course of the project, but it wasn't a result of this project. It was a result of my life changing drastically during my first year of marriage. Some of those changes were shared publically on my daily posts. Many of them were not. But to those of you who have been here all along the way, giving me support and smiles when I needed them and listening to me vent and ramble when I needed that too - whether you knew the challenges I was facing or not - thank you. It means more than you probably know.
The beauty of a project like this is that it forces you to stay consistent. So while the rest of my world was swirling around me, while I was dealing with major changes and challenges in every other aspect of my life, I was forced to come back to this project every day and that kept me somewhat grounded.
I think I'm done with 365 projects now. After completing two years of self portraits and one year of a picture a day, I'm feeling kind of over the time constraints and rigidity. That said, I definitely have a new project coming up that I'm really excited about. It won't be a daily thing, but knowing me, it will probably result in fairly frequent posting. I may even invite a few of my friends to participate along with me if they're interested. I also have some really cool ideas for new series that I've been tossing around for quite some time. They involve some elaborate crafting/building on my part, though, so it may take me a bit before I get them off the ground. But they're in the works...
I'll close by saying thank you to all of you immensely talented photographers and artists who have inspired me over the past year and will no doubt continue to do so well into the foreseeable future. Watching you push your limits and experiment with styles of photography that I can only hope to come close to replicating one day has provided me with so much creative motivation to keep pushing myself, you have no idea. Thank you a thousand times over.
That's all she wrote, folks! Stick a fork in this project. I'm done.