Project 365 - Day 2!

Well - I have many hobbies -- and often they intersect!  I love to scrapbook - and make cards ... And since I have card club tomorrow - I spent most of the evening crafting this beauty .... which I will share with my card making group tomorrow night!  Enjoy ... Day 2!

f/5.6, 1/50 sec., ISO 640 - OCF

Project 365 - Day 1

Okay - so - this is harder than it looks!  Its day 1 - and I am already almost out of time ... Here I am ... at 11:33 pm ... posting my first days picture ... Between working, curling and cooking ... no time for photo taking ... so ... I'll admit it - I was going to cheat ... until Darren came home .... and he told me that cheating was not an option ... (on a side note ... part of the reason I love him .. he pushes me - even when I don't want to be pushed....) so we were standing in the kitchen, eating our new fave snack (parmesan garlic Triscuits dipped in Herb and Garlic Cream hHeese .... YUM-O!) and looking at our fabulous christmas present from Mr. and Mrs. B ... a most fabulous wall clock ... and I pulled the Emergency flashlight out of the kitchen JUNK drawer ... here is what I got .....

1/50 sec, f/4.0, ISO 640, External Light Source (LED Flashlight)

We call our dream place here in Erskine - the Benson Estate ... hence the name on the clock ...  I know that Darren will love this first picture --- because he loves this clock ... and he held my flashlight for me!!  He actually admitted to me today that he was excited for my project - so we can go and try out some really cool stuff together ... so ... Here's to learning more about light and more about my husband!!

S. Benson .... Over and Out!

I want to be a photographer ....

I WANT to be a photographer ...

It's so hard right now ... my life is pulling me in a thousand different directions; I have a zillion things going on in my head ... but the one thought that passes through my mind just about every waking hour ... is how badly I want to make a living as a photographer ... For me ... that means many things ..

...Building my Biz ... excellent customer service, spontaneous capture, perfect passion and a rockin' bis partner is only half the equation .... The other half ... lies in my ability ...

While I believe I am good at it ... I am not the BEST at taking photos ... an I need to be ... I need to step outside my box ... be uncomfortable every time ... Push the limits ... and only then ... can I find perfection ...

I have been thinking alot about how to get there ... and I have come up with the solution ... Project 365 ... you've heard about it before ... a picture/photo shoot EVERY DAY for an entire year ... yep .... I'm gonna do it ... It will give me an opportunity to push myself to new and crazy situations ... the focus of my photos will be two fold - document my awesomely insane and somewhat boring life and push myself into photographic bliss ... challenge my thoughts, try new things and finally get the balls to be a full time photog ...

Now many of you know me all to well - I bet you are already tkaing bets with your sig. other about how long I will last .... well ... I am here to prove you wrong ... I WANT this .... I NEED this .... and I WILL succeed ... So

Here we go.... Day 1 ... tomorrow !