November Update

Monthly Challenge Update

Taking one picture a day. One picture and one picture only. Also taking a notebook with me everywhere.

Some things I've learned this month. Notebook's pretty handy to keep around. Nothing really interesting I've written, but it's nice to have when I want to remember something. I'm not a great photographer, a lot of the pictures are blurry. Sometimes I would get upset about the picture, because I only get one. If the picture was bad, I would get mad that I didn't take more time to make sure it was right.

A big thing I realized is that looking back, every picture could have been better in some way. A lot of of days I had a picture in my mind, and I would be excited to take a picture, but somehow I would miss it or the thing I imagined wouldn't happen. There were some days where I said, 'I'm going to take a picture when we do this'. And I would take a picture, but even then, I would look at the picture and say oh this isn't right, this could have been better.

But this is why pictures aren't so great. They're a second hand experience. When I look at the picture, I think of what's wrong with it. But when I think about the time, it seems like it was perfect. I've been having so much fun these past few months. I've been sincerely happy. In a lot of these days where I was taking a picture I would think 'there's nowhere else I would rather be right now, there's nothing else I would rather do than this. I'm living the dream, life is good.' But the pictures don't capture that. They never will.

I never liked when people took massive amounts of pictures. But I kind of see the value in looking back at pictures and reminiscing the good times. I think all you need is one. We'll see, still half a month to go!