Month: August 2019

I decided to wander around downtown and see if I could find an interesting picture or two. This is looking through the roof at City Creek.

Enough said.

Today I feel like an empty jar. I took a nap when I got home and then tried to think of a good picture for the day. I gathered up the three glass items that I had for this project and took a picture.

We often think that glass is fragile, and it can be, but glass is really hard. That is why it shatters. It is very hard and that makes it brittle. Sometimes, people get that way. They become hard and unbending and then they just shatter. Other people are more like iron, they take dents and dings and get a little bent out of shape, but they just endure and endure. Are you glass or are you iron?

Do you ever wish you had a magic potion? If you did, what would you want it to do? Would it be a potion for money or fame? Maybe, you would wish for health or friendship. I think we all wish we had a potion for something or other at different times in our lives.

I often wish for Matt or Nate to be back around. Or I wish that I had time back that I wasted. More often I wish that I could do things over because I didn’t do them right the first time. On the plus side, I often get that wish, even without a potion. I get to do the same things over again and sometimes I even learn my lesson and do them right the second… or tenth time.

We don’t always get the chance to do some things over, and that can be sad. But I think it’s a good idea to remember that we can sometimes try again and other times we can apologize when we can’t fix it. It may not be in potion form, but maybe it’s a kind of magic anyhow.

Spent the day on the bike today. It is hard to believe that LOTOJA is only two weeks away. I still wish Matt could ride it with me.

After I got home and started looking for ideas, I pulled a few things from the box of stuff I can use for this project and started mucking about with them. I filled the pot with Nerds and then wondered what would grow if you planted it among a bunch of nerds. It turns out that this is the answer.

It has been a day. I don’t know why some days seem so long and others seem to fly by. Today was the former and it is only 6 o’clock.

I just ran across these penguins that I made at the beginning of the project and decided that a lonely penguin wandering in the snow would be a good picture to use. It gave me a chance to break out the macro lens and get a close up of the penguin in his bird tuxedo.

Since Summer is coming to an end and all the kids have to go back to school, I decided that this would be a good picture. To all of those people out there who had to write sentences on the blackboard, here’s a little bit of nostalgia.

Also, cancer sucks!

Down to the last 30 pictures. Just one more month and I will have to start a new project. I’m not sure what it will be, but it definitely won’t be another 300 pictures in a year. I think that it has been good for me to do this, but if I had it to do over again I think I should have started out with a less lofty goal as far as quantity goes.

I thought about actually using a full moon for this picture, but they only come around once a month and I often late at night. Instead I went with this. I went with the crescent moon, even though the howling is associated with the full moon, because I felt that would make it more obvious that the light was meant to be the moon.

I would be lying if I didn’t admit that sometimes this project has made me feel a bit like this tree. I put some constraints that have felt like working inside of a bottle and, while I realize that the lid isn’t on tight and so there is still room to grow, at times it has felt pretty confining.

But I constrained the project on purpose. Partly I just wanted to prove that a project could be undertaken pretty much by anyone. Even though I have a DSLR and some lights, I could have done this with a smart phone and a lamp.

It did force me to think differently about how and what to photograph. Admittedly, I took a lot of pictures that were similar but I liked that I couldn’t just run to the store anytime I had an idea. It would have been easier if I had allowed myself to use stuff I had lying around, and maybe I should allowed that.

Anyway, if anyone is feeling like a tree in a bottle, you can do some pretty cool things if you just use what you’ve got.