Capture Your 365 Blog Hop

I’m part of the Capture Your 365 Blog Hop!  I just discovered this fun new site two days ago.   It looks like a great place for 365′ers to share and find encouragement.

If you’re hopping along sequentially you’ve come from Beth’s Our Typical Life and the next stop will be Christine’s Life or Something Like It.  You can  see the whole list of participants below my photos.

From January 1…

saying goodbye before a business trip

through yesterday…

imaginative play with a garden hose sprayer

I have been practicing photography seriously.  This is my third year doing a Project 365, but the first time that I have emphasized photography instead of scrapbooking.  That’s part of the reason if you visit my 365 gallery you will not find a photograph for every day, despite the name of the project.  I have become critical of my photos.  I mostly shoot on aperture priority or shutter priority, with occasional excursions into full manual, and I’m trying to be thoughtful about  what happens with my photos, especially the ones I choose for Project 365.

For instance, when I took the photo of my daughter holding the fish at the science museum, I was thinking about the article I’d read that morning about focusing on eyes.  Click on it to see it larger in my 365 gallery.

science museum

Another reason I don’t have a photo for every day in my gallery is that I occasionally do let days slip by without picking up my camera.  <gasp>  This has never bothered me.  Long ago, when my focus was on scrapbooking a week’s worth of photos, it didn’t bother me because I always took a lot of pictures on other days to make up for any missing days.  I also came up with substitutes, such as googling a book cover image to show what book I was reading that day.

Now it still doesn’t bother me to skip a day because even if I haven’t picked up my camera, I’m still thinking about photography every single day.  I subscribe to photography newsletters and photographers’ blogs.  I am a member of more than one photography forum, including a local photographers’ club.  I have an excellent book about my camera that I refer to often, Canon Rebel T1i: From Snapshots to Great Shots by Jeff Revell.  I scrapbook digitally, too, which often involves post processing my photos.  Photography is one of my passions.  Even if I don’t touch my camera one day, you can be sure I did something related to photography.  Slowly but surely my camera skills and my photographer’s eye are improving.

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Be sure to visit the other participants in the Capture Your 365 Blog Hop.

1. Jill http://jillconyers.typepad.com/

2. Kate http://www.katehadfielddesigns.com/blog/

3. Katrina http://captureyour365.com

4. Kathleen jkplusthree.blogspot.com

5. Christi http://randomactsofchristi.blogspot.com/

6. Tammy http://lens-and-pens.blogspot.com/

7. Anne http://limeblog.net

8. Tracy http://www.tracyannelittle.com/

9. Sharon http://sharonlinnefaulk.com/photo

10. Lee http://thelinarstudio.typepad.com/embracelife/

11. Michelle http://www.ourhereandnow.blogspot.com/

12. Beth http://www.ourtypicallife.org/

13. Michele http://rhicarian.wordpress.com/

14. Christine http://christine-lifeorsomethinglikeit.blogspot.com/