The Garden Year
I was looking through all my old photos yesterday, seeing how the garden progressed. Usually I take some time at the end of the year to de-clutter my photo files, this past year I took over 20,000 photos (that's roughly 55 photos per day). One of the best reasons to take lots of photos of your garden and your life is to see how things change from season to season and from year to year. The poem The Garden Year by Sara Coleridge is a beautifully simple month-by-month description of the garden. Here is a tour of my garden/life throughout the seasons in 2011.
Seeing how your garden and life progresses throughout the year isn't the only reason to take lots of photos. Taking photos on a daily basis will also help improve your photography skills. I only started taking photos in earnest a few years ago, taking photos daily one of the things I credit with improving my skills.
I'd like to encourage you to join the 365 Project this year, it will be a photo diary of 2012. Don't worry that you've already missed a day or two, start today. I'd also like to encourage you to make these photos public. If you have a Flickr account there's a great 365 group there (make sure you add us as a contact so we can see them too). If you have a blog, post a photo every day, or add one to your Pinterest board daily (follow us there so we can follow you and see your photos). If you don't have any of these upload it to your Facebook wall. Whichever way you choose to do it, let us know - we'd LOVE to see what's going happening in Your Day in 2012!
Do you think you can take a photo each and every day in 2012?