Today being the first anniversary of this blog I have been giving some thought about it and it's existence. Also, about a month ago, I made a commitment to Ruth of synch-ro-ni-zing to write about the name of this blog. ..
I started it with a few thoughts in mind...
Perhaps the initial reason for starting this blog was to encourage myself to take more photos and to improve my photography skills...I had a new camera and a renewed interest in photography. I took a photography class and enjoyed challenging myself through DPS assignments, Canon forum mini-challenges, and Shutter Sisters. I enjoyed looking at photographs online and realized that most of my favorites were of everyday objects and activities.
Somehow I hoped to incorporate this into a photo journal and a kind of almanac of the year. I have always been enamored of artists' journals and old fashioned almanac style books but I'm not artistically inclined and the few times I did start I wrote and drew only about three entries before quitting. This developed into an idea of a simple photo journal that I could document the little things that happened in a year that one tends to forget. Later I also thought I might use this photo journal to start writing down some family and personal memories that I would like to save and pass down...it seemed that as I read other blogs it would often trigger a memory that I hadn't thought of in years...I should write it down! Other reasons for saving a memory developed...I wanted to remember some favorite recipes and reviews of books I've read and movies I've seen. I also started saving poems I enjoyed and quotes that touched me...
All in all I put very little thought into the name of the blog...just expressed my goal really and hoped that the title wasn't already taken...
So how do I think I did? I do think I never would have taken so many photos of my everyday life if it weren't for this blog...so that goal was definitely accomplished. During the year I took two photography classes which I enjoyed too. In the future I would like to learn more about Photoshop and processing my digital photos...and I still have to make a decision about whether or not I need a better camera than my nice lightweight point and shoot. What I was pained to discover through this blog was how terrible a writer I am...how difficult I find it to express myself with the written word. To think that as a child I wanted to be a writer and a poet! So many memories I started to write about but gave up when I couldn't find the words...so many opinions that I couldn't communicate...I felt that my blog was best if I kept my writing simple although my favorite blogs to read incorporate both beautiful images with well written, descriptive words...like synch-ro-ni-zing and ramblins and Soul Aperture among many others. I guess my goal for this part of my blog would be to just keep on trying...
