I keep telling myself that I need to come up with projects, photographic projects, to assign myself to keep me thinking about and working with images – especially new images. I find that the “coming up with” part of the equation is not really all that difficult – I have dozens of project ideas sitting in notebooks and in computer “note” files waiting to be set in motion. The real difficulty is the “setting in motion” part.
It’s that inability, or simple unwillingness, to overcome the inertia of NOT doing and getting off my duff and out of my comfort zone for awhile and DOING it. You know how it is. There’s always other things that are more pressing, the timing’s not quite right, the weather’s too hot too cold too wet too dry too sunny too cloudy too whatever, or….. (fill in the blank).
Recently, a little over a month ago, I came up a project (two projects actually, but only one has taken off yet) that was pretty date specific so I really had to fit it into a definite time span. I’ve been doing a series of one scene on consecutive Mondays in the month of May. It’s gotten me up and out on four consecutive Mondays (one more to go) with camera in-hand ready to do some shooting. It’s been great, but I had forgotten how early the sun rises in the merry month of May. Waaayy early. Here are some samples.
Morning, May 3, 2010.
Morning, May 10, 2010.
Morning, May 17, 2010.
Morning, May 24, 2010.
Wonder what tomorrow will bring?
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