I so enjoy reading blogs. Cooking blogs, writing blogs, photography blogs, random all-over-the-place with no real point blogs (like mine). I just enjoy other people's perspectives on life, love, food, fellowship, travel, fashion, decor, politics, faith, thrifting, etc. Blogs are a great way to gain different points of view on things. So this is why I creep on them often. I'm currently perusing the blog world at two o'clock in the morning after dealing with what I believe to be a nasty bout of acid reflux. Nasty business, wouldn't wish it on anyone. In any event, I've been following a friend's blog rather consistently (Joni is also a relative but more so a friend, and since she got that side of the family's gorgeous head of hair, I'm a wee bit jealous of her beyond her fantastic photos, and by wee I mean amply but bygones, right!!!). She's a budding (read superstar) photographer and upon viewing her work here, you'd never know she's only been seriously pursuing photography since early 2010. By even glancing at her work, you would think she's been doing it for her whole 29 years. She's a natural and very inspiring to follow. And so I do, follow to the point of stalking. I'm a bit extreme and I admit it. Recently, and via her blog, she's introduced me to the idea of a photo challenge that takes you through the cycle of a year via 52 weeks - a photo project per week. Basically, you are given a concept/project challenge every week and each week you need to take the time to think on the project and come up with a photo for it. I very much enjoy photography but it is not always something I make time for, even though I should because I believe you should make time for the things you love. This challenge is basically forcing me, in an exceedingly positive and creative way, to get out there and show myself how I respond to notions, ideas, challenges and even simply how I view my world around me. This is only the second week I've participated (I missed the first two weeks because I'm a bit of a lazy sod) and I'm already finding it to be very helpful in stirring the creative juices! It is indeed challenging but I'm also hoping, at the end of it, I'll have found it very rewarding and more so that I'll have learned as much as I can through the help of others. It is very inspiring to see the pictures in the group as they go up and watch the different perspectives and takes on the weekly themes. Indeed, I am very happy to be watching all of the creative brilliance as it is added to the group. I hope to learn as I go and, in the end, I hope it gives me a better perspective on how I view my world. Thanks to Joni for the inspiration and motivation! If you'd like to follow along or are interested in joining the group, you can go here to read up on the Let's Do 52 challenge. If you do end up joining, please let me know - I'd love to follow your work!
Here are my week three and week four photos:
Week Three: Negative Space (the space around your photo outside of a subject)
You likely recognize this from my previous post, but I liked it for the idea of negative space as well.
Week 4: Unexpected Perspective
Upon reading the morning paper in our study, this was the perspective over my shoulder when attempting to check the clock on the shelf for time.
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