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Photography Challenge 1: Glimpses

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For anyone working on Monday‘s scrapping challenge, today’s photography challenge should make your job a little easier! And for people like me, who are shooting but not scrapping, this should be a fun project!

This week’s theme is “Glimpses.”

I’m sure you have seen several “A Day in the Life” projects. There is a fabulous example here. Read and be totally inspired!

But for some of us, the extra time involved in a shoot like that make it overwhelming.

So I’m making it easier and less stressful. Or at least it was for me!!

Instead of following my family around for one day, capturing moments as I went and making everything take longer while I set up the scene, I took my pictures over a period of three days. And instead of getting everything, I just got a handful that, to me, are representative of life right now. Things that seem not worth taking a picture of right now, but things that will bring me joy when I see them in a couple years, realizing that I captured life NOW, in all its glory and messiness.

I’m planning to make a photo book of the pictures I’m taking this year, and on it I will include some journaling. So it’s okay that some of these need explanations!!

Bekah wakes up for breakfast. She doesn’t think mornings happen until food’s in her tummy. The girls usually do school in the back room, but this is a normal scene, doing their copywork on the dining room table. Doing yoga as gym class. Jasmine practicing her magic trick, learning not to tell people how it works. Bekah’s Sudoku boards, complete with some of the numbers coughing (that’s the little circles on the page) and the note at the bottom, “Boo is not rede [ready] yet”). Hudson taking a picture of me taking a picture, and then working on his wooden beads.

You can do like I did and make a storyboard, or you can make a collection of pictures separately, or scrap them and then post the completed page. It’s your call, because it’s your life you’re scrapping! I like black and white for things like this so the colors don’t clash or distract, but that’s your call, too! (you can do some of both if you want!!) There are no rules other than DO it and don’t worry about making the scene perfect before you shoot. Otherwise you’ll miss the moment!!

Well, okay. There is one rule: I’d really like more than one picture. This is “Glimpses,” not “A Glimpse.” You can’t possibly capture your life now in one shot, no matter how amazing you are with the camera. Get a bunch. You’ll thank me later!!

Here’s my good friend Stacey Donnelly’s take on the challenge:

(Of course, now I want to go do it again and have a common theme like she did, focusing just on one thing like she did with the hands/feet.)

If you don’t want to lug your big camera around, you can do this all in your iPhone or whatever else you already carry around with you. Of course this is one of those “do as I say, not as I do” moments, because my camera is not exactly an iPhone and the pictures are, um, horrendous. So I lug around my huge camera and worry if it’s freezing outside and complain about how it makes my shoulder hurts. But at least I do get the pictures in a format I’m willing to use!!

I set up a Flickr group for this.  So feel free to join there, and post your picture to the group when you get it taken. I’m hoping people will then leave comments for the other pictures in the group… I always feel better when I get some feedback, and I don’t think I’m alone in that!

(If you would rather not use Flickr and want to just post to your blog, make sure you come back here and leave a link as a comment to this post, so we know to go check it out!! You can also use our image uploader here to share your work with us!)

If you still need motivation to do this, read this story. You’ll be rushing to your camera before you can say “That will never happen to me!”

Have fun!