During the last lazy days of 2010 when I was doing nothing more strenuous than blog surfing I came across a challenge that seemed totally do-able over the course of the year. It was a 52 photos in 52 weeks challenge (you can read all about it here).
Each week, on a Thursday, the theme for the photo is announced and you then interpret that through a photo every Saturday...for the year, or 52 times. Of course I will then have to make an album to house all those photos but for now I will concentrate on taking the photos, and really thinking about the prompt.
Having said that, I was sort of caught off guard with the first prompt as it snuck up on me and I nearly missed it!
Week 1: 20:11
The challenge this week was to take a photo at 8.11pm, and nearly missed it as we had just finished eating dinner so I looked up and this is what I snapped.
OK, so not very exciting but I did follow the prompt!
Week 2: Independence
The ideas had been percolating in my brain for a day but Saturday morning the photo just presented itself...here it was, barely 10am and I had an empty house. Oscar was off to a movie with friends, Byron was away camping with friends, Gary was taking his guitar to the guitar doctors (string problems, nothing it won't recover from LOL) and I was ready to hit the shops myself. That's when it struck me; this is what independence means right now and so I took the photo.
It only seems a few short years ago that a Saturday morning would find us all at home together or madly getting ready to head off to soccer.
Anyway, that's the photo challenge I will be following along with this year. I will try and be organised and post my photos each week along with the prompt.
so glad you've joined Lisa and I in our adventure...a great way to ponder our everyday life! now stop it with the talk of our boys growing up, i can't take it, ha, ha.
Posted by: Monika Wright | January 10, 2011 at 02:45 AM
Whole house tour, please. NOW.
And, I totally misinterpreted that we're supposed to take photos on Saturdays. I read it in my head as "before the next prompt." Heh. That might be the way it's most manageable to me ; )
Posted by: elizabeth | January 10, 2011 at 02:59 AM
Re: [the midnight scrapper] elizabeth submitted a comment to one of my many projects for this year...
That is just about the whole house Elizabeth LOL Now Im now not sure that the prompts are supposed to be Saturdays...its just that the first week was a Saturday so my OCD brain read that as must do same time each week. Im sure it is more flexible than I am interpreting it!!!!!
Posted by: jody [gonggirl] | January 10, 2011 at 07:45 AM
Looks like a great photography project - I might have to join in. Mind you I'm already doing project life (which this could tie in with) and Picture Summer and far too many other online classes I'm not at all keeping up with :-).
And that's a great site to add to my RSS feed :-).
Libby
Posted by: Libby | January 10, 2011 at 07:48 AM
Re: [the midnight scrapper] Libby submitted a comment to one of my many projects for this year...
Tell me about it Libby...I have signed up for a few things this year (more posts to come) and I am also doing project life. In my mind my plan is to think deeper about the photos I take for 52 photos and 365 becomes the catchall for our everyday, ordinary life (well thats how I hope it works out!!) And yes, Monikas blog ios a great one to follow, she is always updating with cool projects.
Posted by: jody [gonggirl] | January 10, 2011 at 07:54 AM
Nice post. I love it. Waiting your new posts. Thank you...
Posted by: Devremülkler | January 11, 2011 at 12:03 AM