January 1, 2011 A picture a day...

I decided not to make New Year Resolutions this year.  Instead, like last year, I am setting goals.  I've found that goals create journeys to the destination of the goal.  It's how I became a Certified Professional Photographer last year and it's how I created my first charity calendar.  The journey was definately worth the destination

One of this years goals is to take a non client picture every day.  Something for me, something not necessarily related to family (not birthdays, etc where the camera is anyway.)  I haven't given much thought to what the picture will be, if I will follow a theme (sunsets) or set a goal for the week (perspectives, colors etc) or just see what the day brings.  I kind of like the idea of seeing what today brings since today was definately a lay low day for my family.  But I kind of see lots of sunset pictures being posted through the year.  Hmmm, but even setting a goal for the week makes me look at the world around me differently.  We'll see where it takes me.

Today, I have a sunset.  I was sitting at my kitchen table about 5:30 and seeing some lovely warm glows come through my little, only window in the kitchen over the sink.  Grabbed my camera and headed out to find the card full!  (ok, I borrowed my daughters camera).  So I did the unthinkable and deleted an images, metered, composed and shot.  When I turned around to come back in, I saw my Charlie Brown Christmas tree that I thought had possiblitlies, so deleted another image, metered composed and shot.  So to jump start my picture a day, I have two!