I didn't/don't know what to post for today. This photo wasn't really meant to be the shot for today but I really don't want to spend any more time thinking about what picture to post.
I'm trying to get my ass out of bed but I'm still so sleepy.
I'm beginning my 9th month of this project and...in some ways...I can't wait until it's done. Taking a picture a day isn't new for me, actually. I take pictures all the time. Posting and documenting a year of my life in a photo diary? Well that's something I haven't yet accomplished. This is my third attempt. Have not missed a day yet.
My photos here really don't (at least I don't think so) capture my best work or ability. I really just use this to document a day in my life with an image.
If this pic captures anything for today, perhaps it's laziness.
I don't do any of this to get comments, to get faves, to collect followers. I don't follow everyone who follows me, but I check out their pics regularly. I didn't even know where to find out who makes Top Twenty until I asked someone recently. I'm really grateful for the feedback I get, if I get it. Mostly, I'm surprised and touched if anyone finds what I have to offer interesting. But, truth be told, ...I kind of can't wait until I finish this project.
I never want to let any one thing consume me. A good life is about balance, right? In fact, I have a rule for myself when it comes to this thing. If I spend more than an hour taking a shot and/or editing or even spending more than an hour trying to THINK of a shot, that's not good for me. When I don't spend time worrying about my pics and who may or may not give a fuck about them, it frees up my time to check out other people's work. Popularity contests have never been any interest to me.
So the next 3 months, I'll be clicking away until I sign off from here.
In the meantime...thanks for looking and reading and commenting or lurking!
Perfect commentary!! The people that introduced me to 365 after a year or so ended up hating it...and numerous people I know started and stopped with a bad taste -
I think you can ether take pics to document your life as a diary and enjoy others work or take the time to overthink and over edit and stress out about your photo. Or get your feelings hurt if you have 1 review on the best photo you have ever taken.
I probably follow the rules about 25% of the time -
Again perfect commentary - also perfect shot - enjoy your weekend!
@kylec thanks, Kyle! The community here overall is great and supportive. But whether it is a positive or negative experience can be dependent on how one interprets feedback (or lack thereof) and how that affects them, positively or negatively.
Personally, it does feel good if someone likes a shot of mine. I'd be a liar if I said it didn't. But at the end if the day, it matters to me how I feel about it. There are shots of mine I absolutely hate but people seemed to respond well to them. Other pics I love and they aren't as well-received. I could go crazy thinking about how or why it works out like that.
There are also a number of people on this site who quietly go about their business and don't get a lot of attention even though their work truly merits it. Makes me scratch my head how someone can get 20+ favs on a rather mundane picture but then I realize they've got 200+ followers as opposed to that other fella who has only 15 but takes truly awesome pics. These things alone tells me to take any comments I get here - positive or negative - all in stride and not let it blow up my ego or injure my pride.
But this place has been helpful for inspiration and motivation and I've enjoyed my time thus far. But I also think after a year, I will make my exit so that it doesn't leave a bad taste in my mouth.
I* really like this photo the angles, the soft blues and the way you let it
contrast and frame your supine form. This 365 is also new for me, but I do not think about the photos. I have pure joy when the camera is in my hands, It allows me to see beauty and be not separate but part of it.! his is a fav for me I hope you don't mind, I just love it's monotone and simplicity.
@tosee thanks, Tom! I really enjoyed reading your input and appreciate your visit :). I like your thoughts about being a part of the beauty and not separate. Lovely sentiment.
@realrown365 thanks! The angle of it was the accidental part and I was too lazy to get an upright shot. So this was the result. Glad it made it interesting. :).
Your description depicts my mood SO well sometimes. I've done really good this year...taking a photo a day, but just sometimes...arrrgh! Haha. I really hate it when an "accidental" shot gets more of a reaction than a well thought out picture that I put a lot of time into. That being said, you seem to have a natural eye for photography so even your accidents turn out good...I think I hate you, haha!
Very nicely done, the angles, the monochrome. I feel guilty these days to not have time to comment enough . But I enjoy the process of 365, I do it mainly for myself too and the nice community is a bonus.
@anzere03 thanks! The feeling guilty part of this process is interesting. I once kind of felt guilty for thanking people for commenting after reading a thread about how it annoys people or sucks up their time to receive just a "thank you". I pondered about not thanking anyone at all lol. But then I realized that's just fucking ridiculous. And I thought, it's not my issue if someone else cannot control their time on here and get annoyed by a thank you. I'm no one's mommy here. That's when I decided not to read threads here anymore and just really do my own thing.
As for commenting on others, it does take some time and thought. I try to not just echo what everyone else says. I also used to feel guilty if all I can offer is "great shot" but...sometimes that's all there needs to be said.
There is give and take here. And the people who genuinely like a person's work stick around, whether they comment or not.
My first thought when I saw this shot was, "She'd better be careful, otherwise she's going to slide right off the bed and right onto her noggin!"
I then told my inner safety geek to STFU and read your commentary.
I understand your feelings completely. You started this project the day before I did and I've gone through a couple periods of "Fuckit-itis", but stick with me on this adventure! I just went back to the beginning of your project and ran through a bunch of your early pictures. Your style has changed over time and you didn't originally post any commentary. I think your style has improved and I love reading what you write, even if I don't know the majority of the songs you quote.
@timerskine well I'm curious...these periods of "fuckit-itis" that you had. was it the tedium of posting daily or the community or both or something else? For me it is/was both.
I have been able to draw inspiration from here and I follow people I find interesting either for their actual photography or personality that comes through in their pics.
Am going to finish the project though. But it kinda feels like i am in the last semester of being a senior in high school, where you're kinda just waiting to get out but still having fun...where popularity is a concern for some...and at the end of the day, after high school, who really gives a shit what you did there. did anything we do in high school really amount to anything in the "real" world? What I do here doesn't really help or hurt my life outside of this place. Is that harsh to make this comparison? Is this Photography High. lol. i dunno.
To end this long response to your comment... I think my style changed because I originally was going to use my phone for the whole 365 days. My pics are an odd mix of things...but then again, so are the days of my life ;)
As always, Tim, I enjoy reading your thoughts and following you too.
The tilt of the shot and softness of the tone and wonderful lines add to this very pleasing "accident". As has been said, you are very skilled at these message related selfies. Looking lovely as always Ms. T.
Your commentary is always thought provoking. It's really pretty interesting that everyone has a different approach to doing this. I don't know if I would enjoy doing a daily photo diary. Some days I'm just not inspired. I hope you keep it up for rest of the year!
My rough periods have come mainly from, as you say, the tedium of daily posting. With full-time work and full-time school, this becomes a burden, but one that I am committed to as it has helped me with developing my creative visualization.
I am not overly concerned with the community. And I'm like you in that I'm happy that people look at my stuff at all. If they leave a comment that says nothing more than, "Great shot!" then I'm happy because they didn't keep it to themselves. Those in the community who need effusive and specific praise before they will deem it worthy of their time simply baffle me.
If this is Photography High School, then your senioritis is understandable, but to be honest, I'm not suffering from the same malady much, if at all. In fact, you could classify me as the nerd, teacher's pet-type who sits at the front of the class, always raises his hand, etc. I may well stick around after class is dismissed for the year, just to earn extra credit...even though I got an 'A'.
@jbc2013 thanks for adding a few thoughts, Josh. It is interesting how there are different ways to approach this and perhaps my commentary might seem like one way is better than another way. I definitely do not think that. If someone only wants to receive praise, who am I to judge. I do know, however, that it is never good if one cannot maintain some perspective on this kind of thing...or for anything you do in life for that matter. I hope to keep it up for the rest of year too. Hope you do as well! :)
@timerskine hmm well in this here 365 photography high school, I'm not down with the popular kids, nor do I care to be, and neither am I an overachiever lol. But in my actual high school experience, I did very well academically, had a great group of friends (a lot of whom I still consider friends today), and accomplished things a high schooler would be proud of. But none of that shit - like the fact I was yearbook editor, honors student etc. - matters to anyone now. Not even to me lol. That was so long ago. Just like if I make popular page 2 times or 20 here, that doesn't get me a higher salary or make my friends love me any more or less.
However on somewhat of a tangent, in graduate school I was soooo that student who sat in front of the class, raised my hand at everything, basically the professors loved me. One respected me enough to ask me to collaborate on an academic paper to be published. Graduate school nerd? Yes I was lol. Even still, none of that stuff really matters now in how successful I am in my career.
Firstly... another great selfie, you are a master of these shots, secondly, beautiful ! and a lovely image, great angle, tones, processing, lastly, some really interesting thoughts on the project, I like your honesty and the policy of not spending more than an hour on your own shot. Your commentary is always interesting.
Great shot & great commentary too. I came across a binder of old negatives just yesterday and there were negs from a day in the life of...from 1989! It was great to see a long forgotten glimpse of my life. One day these "snap shots" and the "fuck it" photos will take on a whole new meaning! Keep it up you are almost there!
@sunshinephoto5 thanks for chiming in, Dawn. Hehe nice that you found photo negs from 1989. Anything interesting? Also, you make a good point. I'll be glad I'll have these photos to look back on when the details of this year become fuzzy memories.
September 4th, 2013
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I think you can ether take pics to document your life as a diary and enjoy others work or take the time to overthink and over edit and stress out about your photo. Or get your feelings hurt if you have 1 review on the best photo you have ever taken.
I probably follow the rules about 25% of the time -
Again perfect commentary - also perfect shot - enjoy your weekend!
Personally, it does feel good if someone likes a shot of mine. I'd be a liar if I said it didn't. But at the end if the day, it matters to me how I feel about it. There are shots of mine I absolutely hate but people seemed to respond well to them. Other pics I love and they aren't as well-received. I could go crazy thinking about how or why it works out like that.
There are also a number of people on this site who quietly go about their business and don't get a lot of attention even though their work truly merits it. Makes me scratch my head how someone can get 20+ favs on a rather mundane picture but then I realize they've got 200+ followers as opposed to that other fella who has only 15 but takes truly awesome pics. These things alone tells me to take any comments I get here - positive or negative - all in stride and not let it blow up my ego or injure my pride.
But this place has been helpful for inspiration and motivation and I've enjoyed my time thus far. But I also think after a year, I will make my exit so that it doesn't leave a bad taste in my mouth.
contrast and frame your supine form. This 365 is also new for me, but I do not think about the photos. I have pure joy when the camera is in my hands, It allows me to see beauty and be not separate but part of it.! his is a fav for me I hope you don't mind, I just love it's monotone and simplicity.
As for commenting on others, it does take some time and thought. I try to not just echo what everyone else says. I also used to feel guilty if all I can offer is "great shot" but...sometimes that's all there needs to be said.
There is give and take here. And the people who genuinely like a person's work stick around, whether they comment or not.
I then told my inner safety geek to STFU and read your commentary.
I understand your feelings completely. You started this project the day before I did and I've gone through a couple periods of "Fuckit-itis", but stick with me on this adventure! I just went back to the beginning of your project and ran through a bunch of your early pictures. Your style has changed over time and you didn't originally post any commentary. I think your style has improved and I love reading what you write, even if I don't know the majority of the songs you quote.
I have been able to draw inspiration from here and I follow people I find interesting either for their actual photography or personality that comes through in their pics.
Am going to finish the project though. But it kinda feels like i am in the last semester of being a senior in high school, where you're kinda just waiting to get out but still having fun...where popularity is a concern for some...and at the end of the day, after high school, who really gives a shit what you did there. did anything we do in high school really amount to anything in the "real" world? What I do here doesn't really help or hurt my life outside of this place. Is that harsh to make this comparison? Is this Photography High. lol. i dunno.
To end this long response to your comment... I think my style changed because I originally was going to use my phone for the whole 365 days. My pics are an odd mix of things...but then again, so are the days of my life ;)
As always, Tim, I enjoy reading your thoughts and following you too.
I am not overly concerned with the community. And I'm like you in that I'm happy that people look at my stuff at all. If they leave a comment that says nothing more than, "Great shot!" then I'm happy because they didn't keep it to themselves. Those in the community who need effusive and specific praise before they will deem it worthy of their time simply baffle me.
If this is Photography High School, then your senioritis is understandable, but to be honest, I'm not suffering from the same malady much, if at all. In fact, you could classify me as the nerd, teacher's pet-type who sits at the front of the class, always raises his hand, etc. I may well stick around after class is dismissed for the year, just to earn extra credit...even though I got an 'A'.
Thanks for your kind words about my comments.
However on somewhat of a tangent, in graduate school I was soooo that student who sat in front of the class, raised my hand at everything, basically the professors loved me. One respected me enough to ask me to collaborate on an academic paper to be published. Graduate school nerd? Yes I was lol. Even still, none of that stuff really matters now in how successful I am in my career.