After reading through your comments from my previous posts I have just one more thing to say. It seems there are two schools of P365 thought. The reason to participate could be either...
1. Getting into the habit of constantly taking photos and honing your photo skills.
2. Having a visual record of what you did each day of the year.
Of course, someone could do it for BOTH reasons, but let me add this. I was mostly in this project to have a record of each day. Now, I have observed many others' P362 galleries and read their comments about realizing they had not snapped their picture for the day at 11:59 PM so they grabbed their camera and snapped a shot of their microwave or something like that. On days when that happened to me I went ahead and took a photo the NEXT day of something we had done the day before. Because it wasn't about the RULE for me it was about the DOCUMENTATION.
(Day 341: Jenny Lemmons dancing with our kids while watching Bride and Prejudice)
My good friend Heidi tried Project 365 in 2009 and in January she got bronchitis and was out of commission for a week. So she gave up. I would advise her to take 6 pictures later of various parts of her illness. Tissue boxes, medicine, pharmacy receipts, etc. No, she did not take them on the actual day she was supposed to, but she still documented what was happening in her life during that week.
(Day 132: Today's lunch for the girls)
Don't let yourself get into this habit all the time because you risk getting way behind, but do use it once in a while to keep your Project 365 going if life throws you a curve ball. So, if you miss a day, I say DON'T GET DISCOURAGED and DON'T QUIT! In 5 years for now you will never remember which photos you took a day or two late, but you will want to see what your life was like.
Feeling better?
NO GO FORTH IN 2010 AND SNAP!
5 comments:
you are so awesome for keeping with it!! I am impressed.
love all the moments you captured.
I don't know how you did it (even with the explanation), I did 25 days of December this year for the first time and I found it difficult to see it through. Whilst I appreciate the thought process of looking at your days differently, I just know I couldn't sustain 365 days. Well done, and as you say, in 5 years time it will be priceless (to your family).
you ROCK Emilie!!! thank you so much for giving me permission that I tried to give myself, but apparently my own permission wasn't good enough ;-)
I totally agree!! Project 365 is about the documentation of life - ALL of life - the kleenex boxes and dirty clothes and holes in socks and broken dishes - oops ... revealing a bit much - ha!
now I'm off to catch up on my project - there are a few (quite a few) days I missed that I need to document any way ... somehow ... toodle-oo!
Great post! I thought P365 would be to demanding for me...thanx for putting it in perspective (for me) and giving me a different way of viewing the project. I'm so gonna try it this year!
Fabulous thoughts on 365. Thanks for sharing them.
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