I have been trying to decide on a personal project for this year. There is the 366 projects - a photo a day for the year, the 52 week projects - a photo a week for the year and many others that I came across. Nothing really hit home to me untill I read a blog post~
That was it, that was the project I wanted to do. Our daughter goes off to college in just a few years and our schedules just keep getting busier, but each week I wanted to stop time in our family and hold the moment. Good, bad, makeup or not just "stop time".
This week flew by. It didn't seem like there was a moment to catch all three of us -we were too busy back at work, school, volleyball and catching up on everthing after the holidays. Sat afternoon, almost the end of the week and I have no photo for my project. I felt like I was already starting off on a bad foot and couldn't believe I didn't have one image for the first week.
Sat afternoon 2:00 we had run errands all morning and piled on the couch to catch our breath before heading into the afternoon.
The 3 of us in the same place not racing about.
Not the best image in fact I feel a little exposed posting it.
Couch potatoes is not how I would like to describe us, laundry in the background just kills me and the image itself with the blown window light is not one of my better shots.
I thought of interupting the moment and posing everyone out in the shade of the yard with a nice clean uncluttered background. Then I realized "life actually" would be the project theme and this is us at this moment.
They thought I was a little nuts when I got up walked out of the living area and came back with camera & tripod popped it up in the corner, laid back down and took the picture. They asked should we move? and I said
"no this is us at this moment and I like it".
Here we go ~ 2012 Life Actually
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Did you start a personal project this year? Feel free to leave a comment below with your project info!
