PROJECT 366

at some point or another, you may have come across a friend posting daily photos on facebook and/or twitter. many of the photos seem to have no rhyme or reason and they typically aren't of self or anyone in particular. but there they are, every day, at least once a day.

welcome to the world of project 365.  photography enthusiasts from all walks of life armed with any sort of image capture device are snapping photos of absolutely everything. the half empty beer at the bar with a lipstick stain? click.  the lonely dandelion growing out of the crack of a sidewalk?  click.  the strange orange and pink hue of the sun going up (or down)? click.  the dog looking unimpressed as he is caught doing a number two? click.

  

 

i love it.  browsing through the hundreds of images every day is purely inspirational and helps me appreciate how other people see things.  it is their perspective, their journal of daily life without the need of a written word.  it doesn't matter if the image is blurry, not composed correctly or the white balance is off.  it is simply an image that speaks a thousand words and creates just as many questions. each image independently beautiful and wonderfully unique - there is no need for a theme because taking the photo is the theme.

because of this inspiration, i am participating in project 365 this year and because of the (quad-annual?) occurrence of leap year, 2012 is christened as project 366. find me on facebook, twitter or instagram to follow my story this year and see what crazy random images i try to come up with.  as you can see from the handful i have taken so far - some will be terrible, some will be great, but all will be original and straight from my iPhone for all to see.  some days it will be a challenge to find an interesting image, but the point is not to impress...but to create and find the essence of what goes on in a typical day and how i see it.  much like what i wrote about in a previous post, sometimes all you gotta do is shoot and the body of work might be more valuable than the image itself.  make your lens create.

de jesus.  354 more days.  out.