See what I see

I'm going to try to take one new picture (or more) everyday for at least a month, so I'm going to share them here.


Here's one I took on Saturday around 7pm 12/12/09. I was walking along a beach trail. The air is so nice and warm in summer.

I took a drive into the countryside to clear my head today. I didn't really feel up to taking pictures, but I did it anyway. Earlier, I had wanted to go out in public and take pictures, but in the end I didn't at all feel like being around other people.

So I ended up taking a walk down a dusty road situated nowhere in particular, filling my shoes with sand as I slipped up slopes of dirt and in amongst the tall grass. I think my hands spent as much time on the ground as they did on the camera.

Though I didn't come away with any particularly special pictures, I did come away with the realization that taking pictures is probably one of the best things I can do to escape my thoughts and problems for a while. I can lose myself in colours, shapes and light. It's one of the easier things to do in life.

Taken 14/12/09.

I'm moving soon, into a very suburban area 30 minutes away from the city. I'm so used to being surrounded by a lot of country, I've grown up in it all of my life. Going for walks along the countryside will soon become a thing of the past, and I feel as though I'll be ripping and leaving a part of myself behind. The country has always offered me a place of solitude & escape. I'm scared to leave it.

Taken 15/12/09

It was a very overcast day, so I resorted to taking grey scale images (or as a lot of people refer to it, black and white, but I dislike referring to it as this because it really is technically incorrect). So I'm not a big grey scale fan, mostly because for me it seems more about achieving great contrast (between light and dark) and composition for a strong/harsh image, whereas I naturally gravitate toward colour, subtlety and detail.

This picture was taken out of very forced, last-minute-desperation, which is why I dislike it and don't want to put it up here. But that being said, it's the only one out of all the others I would even consider posting, since everything else really sucked. And I decided that once I say I'm going to post a picture from each day, I'm really going to do that, even if I actually hate all of the pictures I took that day. Otherwise, what is the point?