Project 365: Week 4

February 2, 2012
by Stephanie Pellett
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Week 4 was awesome. I’m definitely starting to get the hang of picking up my camera every single day, and practicing photography as much as I can. There are a few unexpected benefits to this project, my favourite being that I have way more photos to use in blog posts! That’s probably why you’ll see some repeats in my weekly photo round-up that I might have already posted on the blog. I’m really loving this project though, it sort of shapes each day to have at least one special moment.

Also: I’ve moved my dining room table in front of the window, making it an ideal spot to take pictures whenever I get a little light. It’s unbelievable how much that one change has affected my happiness and my photography. Happy Thursday!

Project 365: Week 3

January 26, 2012
by Stephanie Pellett
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I enjoyed this week of photos a lot more than the 2nd week – more inspiration! I’ve gotten really into “self-portraits”, because I always think having something that can live and breathe in your photos makes them look more alive. And these days, I spend a lot of time doing readings in my room or going out on fairly desolate walks, and I’m sick of photographing squirrels! I swear, this is my last squirrel ever. So usually I’m the only living/breathing subject that I feel comfortable photographing. I’m sure this will change as my friends and I hibernate less.

The highlights from the past week are the cornflake-crunch-chocolate-marshmallow cookies (!), all the yoga I’ve been doing, and my dark orange scarf that I’ve been knitting away at furiously – it’s hopefully going to turn into a beautiful circle-scarf or should I say “snood”! Hope you’ve been having an absolutely wonderful week.

 

Project 365: Week 2

January 19, 2012
by Stephanie Pellett
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One thing I’m learning from this project is how little I like winter. It’s sad to say, but true.  I’ve been going for my snowy walks, but the subject matter outside doesn’t really appeal to me all that much. I’m trying to make the most of it, but I seriously LOVE colour, food and people and that’s what I enjoy photographing best. The problem is with these long school days is that I don’t encounter much colour, food or people (to photograph at least) in my day. Squirrels abound! I think I’ll love this project a lot more when it starts to get less yucky outside.

Project 365: Week 1

January 12, 2012
by Stephanie Pellett
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Although you can follow my progress of project 365 on Flickr, I’ve seen lots of bloggers posting their week’s photos on their blogs. I quite like that idea! So I’ll be posting my top 7 each week here.

For those who don’t know, Project 365 is a mission to take a photo every day for a year. My own personal rules for myself are that:

  1. The picture has to be taken with my digital camera, not my phone
  2. I should try to capture “daily beauty”, if possible

I made these rules in order to improve + practice my photography, and to try and open my eyes to the daily beauty all around us. It’s been a great exercise so far. I’d encourage you to try it out! We’re only 12 days into 2012, so…(wait for it..as I type this it’s 12PM, on the 12th of January, 2012! )…you still have many other days of the year (353, to be exact) in which to take photos. So climb aboard!

So far, I’ve found it hard to capture things I find inspiring every day, especially since I’m not the kind of person who finds endless white and lots of wind + snow inspiring! But it’s been fun so far to remember to take my camera with me, and to try and keep an eye out for pretty things. The last shot is a snowy self portrait, taken on one of my snowy walks. I felt happy, and I think this photo captures that.