What I mean is, each day I wake up knowing I need to take a photo of something, something that represents our day, but I never know what it will be. Occasionally I'll have a date with friends or I'm helping out at the school and I make a mental note that I can take a photo then, but mostly I just let the photo find me.
Like this photo...
While I was going to get the mail the other day I walked passed our library and found the two of them this way...Tess was doing homework and Megan was drawing. When I saw it my first thought was that's my picture. I ran to get my camera hoping the entire way they wouldn't move and lucky for me they were as oblivious to me as I wanted to them to be.
Although each day is very similar to the next, it's actually quite different when you start to appreciate each day for what it is...another piece of our story. I guess for me that's the reason I keep up with this challenge. It's become my journal in so many ways and hope through my photos of our daily life my children will get a good understand of the woman I am and the family life we have.
3 comments:
I'm a new fan of your blog - I know your mother-in-law and Robyn from North Ranch and found your blog through Robyn's. I love your writing and your photography. I started doing the 12x12 challenge and I love it. I also love the concept of your daily picture - and I wondered what you do with them. I have oodles of photo files on my computer and I'm looking for creative, easy, quick ways to get them off the computer and into something that I can enjoy...
I like this project of yours, like the 12of12 too... I've always liked pictures, taking them, and after looking at them in photo albums... A year ago, I also discovered the scrapbooking, and it took a name on what I always liked to do with pictures...
Anyway, I guess that, like you, my life would be very different without pictures. Sometimes, I remember events of my childhood because of the pictures of that period I saw. What a great idea to show to your girls what kind of woman you were, you are and you'll be through the pictures you're taking everyday. I like this way of seeing things!
Sometimes at the end of the day, I realize that I didn't take any pictures, and it makes me sad. I'm glad it's such a habit for you to document your life.
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