I can't believe this week's vacation is almost over. It feels like it just started. I had so much I needed to get done this week. I'm not quite sure why, but I definitely had expended a good bit of energy before the holidays leaving me feeling not so great Christmas Eve and I feel as though I still haven't quite caught back up on my rest. I guess it's just a feeling I'm going to have to learn to live with. There is just a fine line between me being tired and feeling completely ill, I just have to figure out how to balance everything. I'm super frustrated because I feel as though I never will find that balance.
I've been thinking about the new year and I know I want to take on a 365 photo-a-day challenge. I'm debating on how I want to tackle this challenge, whether I'm a bigger fan of the self-portrait challenge or a specific topic each day. It has occurred to me that I might want to do both, which then only leaves the question of where am I going to keep these photographs? I've downloaded 2 different applications but we'll see if I like them. I could always use Flickr or Instagram (I know I'll try and upload at least once a week to Instagram), just so you guys can follow along. I'll post some on here as well, but not all of them.
365 days of self-portraits interests me the most because of the challenge of originality it presents. Looking back through my pictures, I do have a good many self-portraits throughout the years. None of them particularly creative and all of them pretty embarrassing. I'm sharing them with you now so I can go ahead and move past the comfort zone of my bathroom location, equally boring bathroom shots, and using iPhone applications to make a regular photograph seem better and more artistic than it really is. So I guess this is a challenge to myself: to step out of my comfort zone and become a better photographer and model. But don't expect to see my face in every photograph because a self-portrait doesn't always have to taken from the most obvious of angles.
Titles: "Our Own Pretty Ways" by First Aid Kit
Labels: Music, Musings, photo-a-day, Resolutions
