Project 52: One

I will edit this entry later with an explanation, but I wanted to post this before the week was over:

Christopher's birthday cake and my pregnant belly!

Edited January 9, 2011 to add:

A friend of mine, Shawna at StyleberryBLOG, has committed to doing a weekly photo challenge called Project 52.  Intrigued, I did a quick Google search and found this website, MCP Actions, which probably provides a better explanation than I can.  Basically your goal is to post a photo every week of the year; so 52 photos in 52 weeks.  It seems that some people have an overarching theme for their photos or some have a different theme each week (if you need ideas, check out MCP Actions as they suggest something new each week).

As for me, I thought about having an overall theme, but then I wasn't sure of what topic I wanted to focus on and beyond that, I wasn't sure if I wanted to "limit" myself to one.  Sure, this blog is baby/family-oriented, so I hope to already post photos with that in mind.  Then I thought about doing a different theme each week, suggested by a website/community like MCP Actions, but then that seemed more like "homework" instead of something fun, so I scratched that.  Some people are using this challenge as a way to better their photography skills, which I think is a great idea, so I thought that maybe I could do that and just post photos taken with my DSLR.

But in the end, after all this thinking, I decided that I'm just going to play it by ear and not take it too seriously.  I realized that I'm a perfectionist and I don't want that to get in the way of the spirit of this project.  I want this to be fun and something that I can stick with! :)  So while there isn't a "theme" per se, you might say that my theme is "letting go."  That's something that I'm going to have to learn how to do more often when I'm a new mommy anyway, right? ;)

My photos each week might be snapped from our fancy DSLR or from my husband's smart phone (thanks, honey!).  They might feature me or my family or they might be something random that I found interesting/pretty that week.  The photo might be edited or I may post it as-is, unretouched.  Shoot, I know that I won't even be able to commit to posting my photo on a certain day of the week!  For this project, I'm quieting my perfectionist ways and am simply sticking to the heart of the project: to post a different photo each week!  My hope is that in the least this will keep things interesting and recent around here! :)

If you want to join in, feel free to hop in anytime, and please let me know!