2010 Projects – Daily Posts

There are days when I don’t do any art. Days when I don’t read any words from a book. Days when I don’t write a word in my journal. When I don’t scrap anything. When I don’t work. I need a break from almost everything I do every now and then.

Except taking photos.

I take photos every day. Every single day. Actually I take like 100 photos a day. On average.

I love taking photos. I love documenting my family, my life, visually. I love looking at the photos. They make me smile every single time.

In 2008 and 2009, I took daily photos of some kind or another and when it came to 2010, there was no doubt in my mind that I was continuing this project. Even though processing photos is the single most time consuming thing in my week, I don’t mind it one bit.

One of the things I regret not having more of is “other photos.” Not photos of my kids or me but of things in my life, places, people, things that are in my daily life. Right when I got my first SLR (during the years we lived in San Diego and before David was born) I was taking a lot of photos and those are still some of my favorite photos so I want to do more of that. I want to go on excursions (even if only once a month) and capture nature, city, people, just anything. I still want to capture my family, too of course.

So the plan for 2010 is that the photos may not be actually taken on that specific day (Nathaniel’s will be since I am still continuing with documenting his first year with photos.) but they will all be taken this year. And I will post at least one photo a day.

Like I mentioned in the weekly gratitude post, I will also post three things I am grateful for, each day.

And I want to do a short journal entry, too. Something to remember the day by. I want to practice mindfulness and choosing joy. Some days it might be super-short and other days longer. Let’s see.

Since it’s going to be not just photos, I decided to call it Daily Posts. Boring name, I know. Feel free to suggest others.