photo documentation is fun!

ok sometimes i’ll be all into a project and then get distracted and kind of set it aside and then months later go, oh yeah! back at the beginning of august, i started this “us-a-day” photo series, to document the month of our big move. the plan was: pete and i take photos of each other every night of the month, and i put them up on flickr as often as possible, labeled with the date, time, and a little mini-journal-entry caption about the day.

it started out well, until the whole move thing actually started and i didn’t have time (or internet, for several weeks) to upload them. then the day i shot the wedding i forgot to do the series, and i continued to forget the next couple nights, with all the crazy apartment searching and staying with friends and stuff. then i remembered most of the rest of the month, but just kept them on my computer. by the time i had internet in the new place i wasn’t motivated to finish the project, since it wasn’t complete and all.

well, i’ve finally put up the shots, with some kind of caption for each day (even if it’s just “packing” or something). i didn’t do the time in the titles, but they were all taken sometime in the night (mostly around 8-10ish). even though i didn’t really succeed with it, i’m glad i did the project. it’s a good record of that eventful month in our life, and we can go back and remember all the craziness.

so you might be thinking, after all this time, what made you finally upload the project tonight? ok you’re probably not thinking that, but i’ll tell you anyway! i got a new toy! these last couple months i’m finding myself without a camera far too often – i don’t take it with me for fear of rain. so, i decided to get myself a little point-and-shoot that can live in my purse/pocket at all times! i got this super cool nikon s51 (in brown!) on sale today; a bit of a splurge, but it’s a great quality pocket camera. i won’t be a gear nerd and go into details, but i’m excited to have it.

so, tonight on the bus i was playing with it and took some window self portraits, and i thought, i bet i could get in the habit of taking a self portrait every day, now that i’ll have a camera with me all the time. so, that’s when i remembered the august series and got to work on it when i got home… sooo, i’m gonna try to shoot a lot more now, make use of this fun little piece o’ gear! maybe if i really get in the habit, i’ll join one of the photo-a-day flickr groups.

one more thing… the reason i was on the bus. i was going to powell’s downtown to sell them copies of do stuff! so you can now find my zine at the city of books, and powell’s on hawthorne. i even have my own page on the powell’s site! also in portland: reading frenzy, q is for choir, and in other words if they still have any left. yay!