Photography has become more and more of a hobby for me lately (no, I haven't forgotten drawing either, I'm just intimidated by brushes at the moment and have been too busy to actually spend a couple of days and nights painting), so I'll be tossing some photos here as well from now on.
As I have the tendency to take hundreds of pictures even during one walk, I decided to follow in the footsteps of my favorite photographer and copy his idea of "one frame per day" as a challenge for myself (which he did for several months one year and the results became an article in National Geographic magazine as well as a book, Chased by the Light). The idea of this is to really have to think what makes a good photograph.
So I'm giving it a try - but only for a week, I don't think I could last any longer. I'll duplicate the week at some point though, to see if anything has changed (other than the season).
Today was day 1 and I took my camera with me for our morning walk. Grayish morning, sun peeking through the clouds every now and then.
And this is the best I could come up with. Well, this "Rosewillow" or "Willowrose" definitely was interesting. I wonder if it has been caused by some fungus. The composition could have been better, much better, now that I think of it.
And... Since Jim Brandenburg didn't have a dog (as far as I know) with him during his "one photo per day" time, I changed the rules a bit - I may take a second picture each day, of my dog, Niuniu. She's got a blog of her own, but I'll have these challenge pics posted here as well.
My "Day 1" efforts seem rather amusing, not much going on in these. I'll be happy, if by the end of the week I'll have one truly special photo! But I am certainly going to have fun - and hopefully I'll learn something out of this!
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