Lest I digress into turning this into a project 365 of my beautiful daughter and thereby defeat the whole purpose of the project, I feel the need to set some goals and parameters for myself. Here we go…
Goals for My Project 365
- Do something creative (even if it is just taking one picture) everyday
- Do something everyday that has NOTHING whatsoever to do with my career, research, field of study, college, or students
- Do something everyday that has NOTHING whatsoever (at least directly) to do with my roles as mommy, wife, or homeowner/homemaker
- Stretch myself, by doing something I have absolutely zilch training in or knowledge of (i.e. photography)
- Open myself to new experiences and new people by putting my pics on this blog as well as a project 365 group on flickr
- View my city (which I LOVE), my environment, and the settings of my day-to-day grind with new, fresh eyes – or in ways I hadn’t in the past
- Explore my visual sense – everything I do is language based (written and spoken) – and I want to experience life visually for a change
- Learn something! About myself, photography, the world, whatever…this has always been the best way for me to INVIGORATE my psyche and my senses.
Project Parameters
- Take a picture EVERYDAY…I think this is a no-brainer, but if I don’t say it, I can see myself stockpiling photos for days when I am “too busy”
- While a picture that includes my daughter is ok occasionally, she should not be the focus of the blog in any way – remember goal # 3!
- At least one picture a week must be in color – I have a tendency to take a large number of black and whites…probably because I think they make cruddy shots look better!
- Pictures do not have to be perfect, great, or even good – this is part of a learning process and having an expectation of the quality of pictures will only stymie my process
- Have fun, but keeping taking pictures even if it stops being fun…the goal is to stretch
I think that’s it for now. The goals address my need for focus, and the parameters address the possible excuses/fallbacks/roadblocks I could envision at this point.
I can do this!!!!!
"Do or do not. There is no try." (Yoda, Empire Strikes Back)
