The calendar moves on...

Here are the past few day's photos. I may be a little late in posting sometimes, but I will try to catch up. I'm trying to abide by the spirit of the assignment, which is to keep creating new images, rather than the letter of the assignment (365 posts).

Weekend

Here are the photos from a rainy weekend. Enjoy.

Thank you to my newest follower, Kevin L. Glad to have you on board.

The reason I'm doing this...

The reason I'm doing my Photo a Day assignment, especially since I've been shooting for over 20 years now, is to explore and learn a bit. I'm not deluding myself by thinking that every image I create this year is going to be a groundbreaking masterpiece. Many times I'll be coming back to a particular idea in order to refine it (like I mentioned yesterday). That is the reason for the project. I want to be able to look back after a year, and see growth and development as an artist. Or at least not to see repetitiveness or stagnation.

I know that some images will instantly jump out as "winners", while some may undergo many changes during the year and still not quite live up to what I had envisioned. I'm just trying to make more winners than not.

Thanks to Yves Rossy for doubling my number of followers-I'm up to two!

Inspiration is all around

This photo, my official first Photo a Day, is proof that if I look hard enough I can find inspiration all around. I look at this fence every day, but when I really LOOK at it, I see it in different ways. It becomes more than just a fence. It becomes patterns and texture.

I promise to try and not get all "preachy" about my photography. Sometimes I take an image because it has special meaning to me (like the statue), sometimes because it strikes a chord in me, and sometimes I just wander around clicking away hoping to get lucky. Most of the time it's a little bit of all of those put together.

My Style

My style, as I've thought about it in the past, is found detail. I can and do create images "from scratch", but most often it is the detail I find around me that fascinates me the most. Seeing something different from everyone else is what I find exciting about photography. Creating my own point of view, and sharing that with everyone else, is what keeps me going as a photographer.

Walls

Walls. I look at them. A lot. The way light hits, and shadows are cast, can give an ordinary wall a character all it's own. I pretty much guarantee that I will be including plenty of wall images in my Photo a Day assignment. And maybe a window or two from time to time.

A big thanks to arete113 for being my first "follower". I hope my work merits your continued attention.