Start Now!

There's no time like the present, so they say. One of the problems that always arises then there's talk of starting something new is - when is a good time? It seems like something always needs to be begun at an auspicious time - like Monday, or the 1st day of the month or the 1st day of the year. What usually happens is, the idea is chosen, the date is chosen for its' auspiciousness and then the path goes awry before the date arrives and the idea never takes form.

Then the cycle starts all over again. The other day I started looking into something called a 365 Project. Taking a photo a day has always interested me. I know people who have done it for a while and I thought it was a nice idea - creative and also therapeutic.

So I decided I would start a Photo a Day Project - but of course - it seems to make sense to start one on a 1st - day of the month or day of the year. A Friday - especially a Friday the 13th seems inauspicious.

Then I reasoned that one of the things I want to start doing is to start doing things. I started bike riding - I just picked a day. I didn't wait until spring or until the first of something. I just started. So I'm doing the same with this and hopefully with all other things I want to do. I'm tired of waiting for the right time to do something.

So without further ado - my Photo a Day Project begins. Whether it lasts a month or a year or forever, we'll see. If I'm still doing it on the 1st of the year, I may call it from that point forward the 2016 Phot a Day Project, but I may not.

Here are my first two photos, from yesterday and today. The theme is 'Things I love' - and basically it will just be images of things that make me happy. I'm taking an unfinished photo and then I'm embellishing a little with GIMP to make the photos more of what I love.

These are both finished photos.

 

A little bird and a nest with polymer clay eggs that sits on my desk.

 

Purple flowers that grow among the rocks at the corner of the street.

 

I probably won't post every photo for every day. I'm using Pinterest to organize the pictures and I'm keeping them in a folder on my hard drive too and considering if I get enough good ones maybe going for broke and making a really nice Snapfish album out of the best of them.

 

The upside of this is so far it doesn't seem like a chore and it's a few minutes a day that I can focus on something creative without pressure.

 

Off to write. No pressure there. ;)