Thursday, September 18, 2014

365 days in 2 years ... ?

On May 31st 2012 I decided to radically improve my photography by processing a photo daily for 365 days; a Project 365.  I took my last photo for the collection on August 27th 2014.  Yeah, took a little longer than it was supposed to :).  I learned a lot and had a lot of fun.  Probably the best lesson for me and what shaped my art the most was my inability to get out and shoot whatever I wanted.  Because I have a family, I ended up having to shoot things in my house.  That made me develop an ability to turn the mundane into something interesting.  In many ways, this is the underlying theme or approach that I take to photography (actually, to a lot of things in my life).

I would recommend that you do the same for your discipline.  I mean, have you really dug in and put yourself on a practice schedule?  How are you going to get better, discover more about your art and yourself if you don't immerse yourself in it?