Deciding what to post of the dozen or two photos that I'd shot daily gave me the most food for thought. It goes back to the question of what I am I trying to show, say, reveal? What are my constraints? I think subconsciously I decided early on that my photos would be more than just natural subjects. I happen to like to see the evidence of man in our surrounds and landscape. Subject matter doesn't always concern me as much as composition or evoking a certain emotion. Besides I'm generally only about 10 paces from my backdoor, so I gotta work with what I've got. I also think that since this is a slice of my existance, some photos should reflect that - my dogs, my coffee, etc. and let's not forget, I'm always affected by the 'oh shiny' factor.
Then there is the question should these photos be viewed as a collection of a week, month, year or should they strickly be stand alone? I know if this was a complilation of my week those chosen would be much different. In fact some days I had four or five I wanted to upload and other days not a one. I do have two constraints for certain though and that is that I've limited it to one photo a day and it has to be shot in my 15 minute outside timeframe. No going back and shooting more, there's always tomorrow.
But having said that, here are some from the cutting room floor, maybe they will help my future editing (week 1; days 1-7) -
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