Monday, February 6, 2017

Creative Exercise - In the morning

This year I have some goals...I want to get my pictures current -- like right now they are in folders but that's it.  I don't have things labeled, I haven't looked to see if things are blurry or just pictures that I don't want to keep.  I have caught up and put all of the photos that I took in 2016 in folders - labeled them and then saved them on another hard drive.  I've stayed current so far with 2017.  Right now I am working on 2015 and amazingly enough, I am almost through all those pictures - going through them, deleting them and labeling what they are.  Once that is done I have to do 2013 and 2014 - my goal is to get all this done before the baby comes.  I have maybe 10 more weeks before baby comes.

I have a couple of photography books that I would like to get through.  I have started the first chapter in one book and they have creative exercise to work through and think through.  So I'm gonna try to do that.

Then with my facebook group, they will be putting up some creative exercises that we can work through for about 2 weeks and then we will move on to another creative exercise.  I think this will be the place that I will blog about my creative exercises and also about maybe the assignments that are in the books that I'm reading.

My goal this year is to improve my photography, have fun with my photography and just to be mindful and take pictures that make me happy.

For the next two weeks are working through the theme of In the morning in our facebook group.   Basically, we will all be shooting stuff that we see in the morning -- we can have people in our shot but we don't want the people to be the subject.  So I can't wait to see what I can think about for this exercise.

My first pictures for this theme - In the Morning.  I wake up every morning and I turn to look at the window and I smile because I see these BEAUTIFUL light beams that peek through my curtain.  I always tell myself that I should take a picture of them because they make me smile and just make my morning.  But I have never done it.  But this morning I decided that I wanted to remember those light beams and the emotions that come out when I see them.