Project 365

Last year, when I took my second 31 Days of August challenge, I shared my idea to sign up for 365Project, despite some misgivings I had for such a big and long-term engagement. Still, what did I have to loose, so I jumped on the bandwagon. Of course, on January 1st. Project 365 community is very welcoming and attracts quite talented and inspiring (amateur) photographers from all over the world. I was warmly accepted, gradually started following other people's feeds and got followed in return. To me, however, all the likes and positive comments I got on my photos suggested that I had to make an extra effort each day to justify the encouragement and that meant that instead of just casually taking a mediocre picture and posting it each day I made efforts and spent quite a lot of time to plan and take a mediocre picture to post. I persevered for almost three months, though the last couple of weeks I began posting much more casually, mainly pictures of my knitting and yarn dyeing projects. I uploaded my last picture on April 1st and then decided that it was pointless to continue as it was no longer any fun and was rather a chore. Lately I checked my account and noticed that (probably due to no activity), though my account was not deleted, my uploads were gone. So, to mark this effort of the first trimester of 2018, a selection of photos I uploaded to my 365Project account, as well as a couple I posted on FB:

:Jan15

: Jan19

:Jan20

:Jan22

:Jan25

:Jan28

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:Feb09

:Feb20

:Mar18

:Apr06

:Jul20

Project 31 Days of August

In August I started a project on Facebook, where I published one photo per day on my page. The idea behind the project as to carry out a short-term trial for an annual challenge and in the meanwhile to expand my knowledge and use of the DSLR camera.
To my amazement, instead of being energized, I felt bored and horrified right from the start. Finding a topic to photograph and talk about turned difficult - not that things didn't happen, but then I didn't feel like taking pictures and I found carrying the camera around cumbersome and a bit embarrassing - as if I was trying to pretend to be a photographer, when I'm obviously not. So I only took the camera with me once, and on later days when out I took pictures with my phone or the smaller travel camera, which obviously was not the point of the exercise.
I did miss two days - the 28th, when I simply forgot to take a picture, and the 31st, when I gave up the idea, after racking my brains for a while for a theme for a descent last picture.
So, while I sill enjoy taking pictures and more so looking at pictures taken by talented people, now I know that photography isn't my thing.