Photo Project 2017

Throughout 2017 I completed a personal photo project albeit a bit different from ones I’ve done in the past. 

365 projects are popular and can be fun. I’ve done them in the past but for each one of those I felt burned out as early as September. The first time I did one I shot a photo each day for the year of pretty much anything; there were no limits or themes I had to follow. In the years that followed I tried doing themes to challenge myself. Two of those themes were architecture (gasp!), typography, and our newborn’s first year of life. The architecture and typography ones were fun projects to keep me busy but I will admit that I started to find it difficult to take a meaningful photo every single day. There was more than one occasion where I noticed it was 11:30 at night and had yet to do my daily shot so instances like that kind of made the work suffer because I was essentially using filler to get my quota in. I can’t say the same for the project on our newborn but that one was on a whole other level.

Fast forward to December of 2016 and I heard about doing a 52-week challenge. One photo per week is much easier to stick to than one for 365 days straight. I decided to go ahead with this project, but like some of my early 365 projects, I wouldn’t stick to a theme. The other key to this specific project was that I kind of did it subconsciously. I say that because I shoot enough both for work and pleasure that I know I’d have a wide array of photos throughout the year that would complete this project.

In the end, I have 52 shots. As you’ll see in the gallery they more or less fall under architecture or our two-year-old. The past couple of years I feel my work has evolved and gotten a lot stronger so I’ve been making conscious efforts to go out and shoot when I have any spare time. Which, by the way, isn’t often.


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