An Idea

So I have an idea forming. It's kind of inspired by two different people; a photographer Jim Brandenburg and a blogger, Stephanie Nielson (NieNie). Jim is an amazing photographer who lives in Minnesota, and he did this book (which I don't have yet) called, "Chased by the Light", where he only shot one photograph per day for three months, from the autumnal equinox to the winter solstice. Another book he did, which I do have is called "Looking for the Summer", a very beautiful book! In this book he took more than one photo and chose the best one to represent each day of summer.
Stephanie, as I said is a blogger, though I'd say she is a photographer too, and a pretty awesome one at that! She is amazing, and has inspired me many times before with her words, and story. Anyway she is starting a blog based off of a book called, " '3191~A Year of Mornings", where two women, who were friends, but in different areas, each took a photograph of their morning, something to represent it. So Stephanie is doing something like that with a friend of her's who lives in Germany. I just read about it and decided that I want to do something similar to both of these things. I won't do this with a friend, because honestly I don't have time to find someone who will do it with me, but I want to photograph each day of my life for a year. I won't be able to do just one photograph a day like Jim, so I'll do multiple and then pick the best one to post. Since I have a film camera I won't be able to post pictures daily- though I may on some of them use my sisters digital camera, so I can post sooner.
Maybe in taking time to look at the small and simple things that make up my life I'll learn to appreciate my life a little more. The trouble will be to remember to take a picture- I'll need to remember to take my camera with me everywhere I go! :) I think this will be fun, and will end up being a photographic journal, since I'm not very good at keeping a written one. Sometimes words fail and pictures say everything.
I took some photo's tonight of random things, but I may try to take a picture of something that represents the first day of the New Year for me. I think this will require me to think a bit more outside the box. Hmmm..... :)