A friend sent me a link to a 52-week photo challenge
hosted (on Facebook) by a photography studio in Durham, N.C. The deal is, each
week throughout the year participants are given a theme. You consider how you
want to interpret the theme, take your photos and submit one to social media
(Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest).
Not only do you learn from the pix others
submit, but you also learn from their constructive criticism.
Week 1’s assignment is “Storytelling:
Self-portrait”. Take a picture showing who you are without showing your face.
I thought about taking a pic of my incipient
2019 mindmap—the stickies on my patio door, but I didn’t want anyone enlarging
the image and seeing what I need to work on. So I went with a photo of books.
It was actually hard to decide what books to
focus on, so I went with a mashup, which pretty much describes me. Voilà:
I like the idea of a weekly assignment; it
means that I have to get out and shoot to some kind of spec consistently. Some
weeks will be crap; some won’t. But it’s exercising those creative muscles,
which I need.
And that’s what I’m grateful for today.
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