I’m no photographer. I took plenty of art classes in high school and in university, and I still continue to enjoy painting and drawing. I doodle anytime that I am on the phone or listening to someone for longer than about five seconds, if pen and paper are at hand. I write, or at least, I pretend to do so.
But a friend of mine told me about this project that she did last year. You take a photo everyday, upload them (daily…) and then write about whatever comes to mind. Poetry, fiction, childhood memories, revelations, ideas, real-life associations, connections to class, feelings the picture invokes, comments on the subject matter, whatever you want. As long as you remember everyday. So far I’m okay, though there have been some near misses. Occasionally, I have to bend the truth and use a photo have in reserve from a day or two before. But so far, so good.
I want to live inEurope. I just came back from a five month stay inEnglandandSpain, and I loved it. It’s pretty all I ever talk about, think about, reminisce about. Hands down, the best experience of my life! I have now been to fifteen countries, “lived” in four of them (if you count one month as living…hey, I had a flat!), and loved all of them. I really want to go back toEurope, move into a studio flat with a so far non-existent German Shepherd in the middle of a city in a country where I probably don’t speak the language, teaching English to children and adults of various ages, surrounded by a large group of multi-cultured friends from every different background. Visas are hard to come by, but I’m pretty damn determined, so watch me try!
People tell me I don’t appreciate what I have right now. I’ve lived in the East Coast all my life, and I can’t wait to leave it. But I have one more year of uni in the DC suburbs, so I thought I’d stop complaining just for a moment, and listen to what people say. Maybe I should work on this appreciation thing. Maybe I need to understand what I have before I run away from it, whooping with joy.
So I am going to take a photo, every single day, and write whatever comes to mind. I am going to force myself to pay more attention, to be more appreciative. I am going to add yet another creative layer to my life on top of my already creativeness of painting, drawing, and novel-writing. I’m working as a receptionist at a business and then I’ll head back to uni in the fall, so I need this. I need to be creative, fun, artsy, and appreciative. I need to garner a new perspective of the world around me, notice things that would have laid forgotten before I began this project. I need to say goodbye toMaryland, to DC, toVirginia. I need to say goodbye my childhood, to my college days. I need to bid America farewell, and get ready to move onto new waters—waters that will hopefully eventually float me all the way across the pond and over to Europe. Here goes.
What a wonderful and inspired idea! Your photos are great!
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Beautiful!
Nice idea. You do not need to be a photographer to take good pictures. All is in you. And thank you for checking my blog, I also like photyography and travel.