David Emery OnlineProject 365 was difficult today
23 June 2008
Regular readers (and irritated friends/co-workers) may know that this year I’m undertaking a photography exercise called Project365. The concept is simple: everyday, I take a photo. Come rain or shine, illness or busyness each and everyday a photo must be taken.
So far, I’ve managed it.
Just.
Unsurprisingly, some days it’s harder then others. The inspiration isn’t there maybe, or the opportunity never arises. More days then not are almost exactly the same for me, on a general scale, as I imagine they are for most people; wake up, go to work, go for lunch, do more work, go home. Repeat.
This isn’t so much of a problem to start with – each of these different activities has quite a few photos in them; your walk to work, the immediate area around your desk (and your colleagues – sorry again!), the park you have lunch in etc. Then their are the less regular traditional photo opportunities to mix things up with – mostly gigs in my case.
However, after about 3 months or so the burn kicks in. You’ve taken all the easy pictures, the ones that don’t take any effort. You find yourself in a panic at about 11:30 in the evening prowling round your flat, camera in hand, desperately searching for something you haven’t photographed yet (or to photograph in a different way – maybe I didn’t use flash last time I photographed my iPhone?).
So in that spirit I thought that recognition of this bizarre facet of the human psyche is in order:
Project365 Was Difficult Today
It’s just a Flickr group for the moment (not enough time to do anything more fancy; got photos to take…), so if you’re a fellow Project365-er please join a submit your ‘difficult’ photos – I know you’ve all got them (just for clarification, difficult doesn’t necessarily mean bad, just difficult). And as some form of inspiration, here are some of mine:
