366 Project, Week 6

(36/366) The super tiny produce section in my local grocery store. Thankfully it was full this time when I went in. (Side note, I’m now 1/10 of the way finished with this project – wow!)



(37/366) It was bento day at the junior high school. So I packed up my lunch and put it in my cute bento box.



(38/366) Was trying to see if I could stop the snow. Not really the greatest of pictures.



(39/366) I was staring at my banana saying “I know I should eat it, but I really want something sweet.” This is the result.



(40/366) What my desk looked like that day – lots of Japanese study and tea, not a lot going on at the elementary school. This is actually what a lot of my days look like.



(41/366) My favorite buttons in the staffroom! Push the smaller of the two pink ones and then the bigger one and hot water comes out! In the winter time, they are so wonderful because a hot cup of tea is my favorite way to spend slow afternoons.



(42/366) I spent the weekend with some friends. One was trying to make Valentines Chocolate for her husband and co-workers. We were her test subjects (pretty good role to play in the making of chocolates).

366 Project, week 3

During week 3/4 I got sick. So there are a few holes as I just didn’t think about getting a photo.



(15/366) The mountains on my drive home from church. I loved the combination of sky and mountains.



(16/366) My kindle cover. I had forgotten to take a picture and it got toward the end of the day. I really liked the texture of the edges.



(17/366) My students were playing karuta. Karuta is a Japanese traditional game where one person calls out a word that corresponds to various cards. These were in super stylized calligraphy, so I couldn’t read them well enough to play. For example, I looked at this one, skipped the crazy calligraphy on the left, and read it “さも” (sa-mo). One of my students had to point out the squiggle on the right which reads “し” (shi), so it actually says “しさも” (shisamo).

(18/366) I got super sick on Wednesday this week, including puking and a fever. I was barely able to keep myself going through the day, let alone remembering to be creative and take photos.

(19/366) Though I finished getting sick the night before, I continued to have a fever and very little energy on Thursday. I spent most of the day on the couch.



(20/366) On Friday, I ended up feeling good enough to move around a little. My supervisor brought me fruit and as I looked at it sitting on my table, I liked how the light caught the plastic on the bag. It took me several shots to get the variety of light the way it is now. I finally ended up bumping the exposure down while focusing on the right part of the bag. I don't really love the way I framed it, but I was finally happy with how I caught the light.



(21/366) While browsing pinterest this day, I noticed someone had made a really cute zipper pack for their headphones. I thought, “that looks cool! I should do that.” Then I realized that I didn’t need to, I had already had the non-sewing version of this idea – use a coin purse. I especially liked this shot because of the star on the silver part of the lower headphone. I kept spotting it in the camera, but couldn’t tell, in camera, if I had caught it.

365 projet

I’ve had several friends on flickr start 365 projects. The idea is simple: take and post a photo everyday. It doesn’t have to be on flickr, but somewhere.

This last year, I had a friend who decided to do it, but posted her photos once a week on her blog. One of my favorite photographers on both Flickr and Google+, Takahiro Yamamoto, wrote about his experience doing a 356 project, here.

I’ve contemplated doing this several times, but each time decided that I probably wouldn’t be able to post everyday and then tried to start other things with friends (like photo of the week).

After some success with the photo of the week challenge, I’m going to do a 366 challenge in 2012. Why 366? It’s a leap year! It means I get to take one more photo next year.

Practicing for the 366 project

I’m not completely sure whether I will have internet access everyday or if I will even be in the same place for the whole year, yet, but I’m going to try to do it and see what happens. I may end up being a big failure, or I might discover some new places or angles for photography that I like.

The results will be posted to Google+ and flickr and possibly here, too.

What is something creative that you’ve been contemplating doing but procrastinating on?