In my last post, I told how one of my best friend's giving me a little guilt trip got me back into the 365 project! Today I want to share the images from my first two days back on the wagon!!!
I would love it if you would give me feedback, dislikes, likes, what you would have done differently, etc on these photos. Please, be nice but be honest!
Here is the photo from December 14, 2011
It is of my church. Originally, the photograph was very bright with the colors almost too vivid for me. So, I took it into PSE10 and added a few actions to it. To me, it tones the colors down while giving it a vintage look.
Here is the photograph I took December 14, 2011
My mom, myself and an older couple from my church went to this really wonderful place called Meadows Village near Benson, NC. They have at least 2-3 acres of nothing but beautiful Christmas lights, scenes from the Bible and an old country store where you can buy all kinds of candy, Ginger Ale (mild or hot), vintage signs and wonderful peanut or variety nut chocolate clusters. Here is their website: http://www.meadowlights.com/! Best of all, it's free, except for the train ride which is a whopping $2 a person (did you get the sarcasm)?
I didn't do much to this image except straighten it (in Picasa 3) and then crop in PSE10 and add a color popping action. That's it =).
So, here are my first two images after getting back on the 365 Project wagon. Hope you enjoyed them....
Sara
At the end of September, I found an amazing website called www.365project.org. In a nutshell, you commit to taking one photo a day for a year and posting it on this site. I HAD to do it. I wanted to practice and grow my photography and begin thinking outside the box. So, I set up an account and began (entheusiastically) snapping away and posting every day. But as the days passed (really, it wasn't that many, maybe a week at the most) my entheusiasm began lagging. Sure, I was still snapping every day (or every other day) and posting them when I could but my initial excitement was gone.
My last picture was posted on October 3, 2011. My friends, that was 2 months and 11 days ago.
Honestly, I haven't given the project any but a passing thought during the past two months. But that changed when last night one of my good friends posted on my 365 facebook album, "are you still doing this? your last picture was October 3rd....."! Bring on the guilt.....And, of course the motivation.
So that got me thinking, I'm glad she made me guilty (not intentionally of course) because now I plan to pick up my camera today and begin the project again.
Which brought up some more deeper thoughts. We don't see guilt as a good thing. Normally it's associated with something negative. But when guilt leads you to DO SOMETHING or CHANGE SOMETHING in your life to a positive, then it's a good thing.
On the spiritual side, guilt and shame and sorrow over the wrong things you've done can lead you to repentance. 2 Corinthians 7:10 says, "For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death." When God shows you that you have done something wrong and it needs to be changed and you follow God's recipe for forgiveness (1 John 1:9 - If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.) then you can begin living your life anew, in a positive way!
Bottom line, I am thankful for my friend's unintentional guilt trip.
Sara
