Thirty-one days doesn’t seem like a long time, in many ways. But I challenged myself to produce a photo each day this month of January, 2016, knowing it would stretch me both creatively and in the time management department. I certainly did on both accounts.
January 1, 2016. The New Year Begins. Motivation time! I’m kicking off the new year with a commitment to producing a shareable image every day for the month of January. They may not be great, but I’m committed to creating an image a day that at least won’t make me cringe.
The weekend found me up at the cabin with friends, enjoying a last glimmer of fall before the onset of the true cold. Saturday morning, we set out for a hike up off the Echo Trail to the Angleworm Lake loop in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. It’s about half an hour’s drive to the trailhead, and we needed to swing through Ely to pick up a map as we struck out.
On my morning commute today I was reminded of the importance of having a camera with me nearly always. The ability to visualize a scene and find in it the photograph that you want to make is a vital element of producing compelling work. Having the means, inclination, and ability to react to that scene in an instant is another matter entirely.
