Week 1 in Photos

I am loving ProjectLife365! It is getting me back behind the lens and enjoying the world around me even more and the prompts give inspiration to interpret the way I see fit. I really enjoy the no stress of being absolutely perfect with the image, just capture using the cell phone. It is easy and while the photos lack sharpness and clarity, they are still the beauty in my life as I see it and it is not always about taking the most amazing quality of photo, it is about opening your eyes and seeing with clarity, the world around you and the beauty it so beholds for us.

I have decided that I prefer to make a weekly collage out of the photos I have taken instead of posting individual shots daily and will upload the collage on Saturdays to share with you. I shared my first photo in the previous post so here are my next four.

Day 2: You today – Day 3: Optimistic – Day 4: Graceful – Day 5: View

My journaling with each photo is as follows:

You_today: (no journaling, just a pic of me! ha!)
Optimistic: Each new day is a chance to live the life you’ve imagined! There is always a glimmer of hope and rays of sunshine to be experienced! Photo taken this morning at hospital while picking up daughter from her nursing program.
Graceful: My mommy. Taken on Christmas but she is my best of example of being graceful. the kindness in her eyes, her loving/hardworking hands, her beautiful heart, her constant faith in our God, her gentle smile and her everlasting love for our family… that is what being graceful is to me.
View: Whitetail Ski Resort near my town. We were on a family drive and this was taken out the window driving down the highway.

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second. -Marc Riboud

All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt. -Susan Sontag

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.  -Ansel Adams

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. – Ansel Adams

It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are. – Paul Caponigro

Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like. – David Alan Harvey