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...
13 comments:
happy one year of a beautiful place to visit...i enjoy your space just as it is, the photos are always so lovely and that actually is what I am more drawn to in a blog.
Happy Anniversary! You've expressed so well in this post just what I think blogging is all about. It's funny, because I wrote a very similar kind of "taking stock" post today in which I talked about how much blogging and photography have taught me over this past year. December is a good taking stock month before the challenges of the new year.
Congratulations on your wonderful blog, my friend!
xo Gigi
Happy blogging anniversary! I for one am very happy you decided to start blogging or I would never have met you otherwise. I enjoy both your words and photography and think you convey your feelings very well through both mediums.
Congratulations on this milestone!
congratulations on completing one year. i love your place as it is, and thanks for introducing me to synch-ro-ni-zing: a new blog for me.
Oh Oliag, it means so much to me that you came back to tell the story of your blog name. Thank you.
I agree with ELK, I enjoy this place just as it is, one of my favorite salons to visit for tea. I think especially of your photo journals of trips with your family - the photo of you hugging family by the water, photos of you all eating seafood, I really love what you do. It's nice you want to work on the writing part, but I've found that if I do what I want to do in the blog, it just comes, and I work on what I want to. I'm sort of writing about that today: discipline.
Happy one year bloggy anniversary. I'm very very glad you're here. And I missed you. My thoughts are with you, sweet sister.
YIKES! My comment sounds like I was telling you that you need discipline!!! NOT NOT NOT what I meant. What I meant was, I am writing about how if you're passionate about something - photos, or writing, or whatever - the discipline comes without being hard, I think. If you're not passionate about something, why do it?
Well, sometimes the laundry has to be done (though I am passionate about that), dishes put away, trash emptied, meals cooked, . . .
Happy blogiversary, Oliag!
You may find the words difficult to find at times, but this post said it all beautifully.
I, too find I love the photos of everyday things. And sometimes, with that, simple words are best.
Oliag, first, happy 1st blog anniversary!
Second, why do you think we all keep coming back eagerly and with sweet anticipation? It's because you have struck the perfect balance for you. I too would love to be able to write like Ruth and Char and so many others whom I enjoy reading, but it's not me.
Sometimes it's just putting one foot in front of the other...if you write that first sentence, the rest will follow.
I hope you can feel a warm hug I'm sending to you right now. :)
I think you're doing wonderfully. And happy blogging anniversary.
In the past 2 years that I've had my blog, I must say that it's the written word that I have the most trouble with.
I always pop over to see what you've got to show and tell. Be encouraged. I think you have a great little blogspot. Happy Anniversary!
Enjoyed the serenity of your photo today. There is much beauty here.
Happy Blogoversary! Blogging has made such a huge impact on my life, as well. Cheers!
Warm, woolly wishes for a wonderful 2010.
I've been thinking about you, Oliag. I was tickled to see you at my place today. Be well, and I wish you abundant good things in 2010. Happy New Year!
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