{Week 2 = Mailboxes | 52 Week Project}

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It’s SUNDAY, and another week to choose a topic for my project!  As I was thinking, over the past week, about this task I’m undertaking for the next year, I decided that I needed to have some tangible goals that I wanted to be able to see over the next year.  For me, this project is to help me grow as a photographer, to nail my shots in camera (focus, color, exposure) and to be able to shoot things that I normally wouldn’t think about or make time to shoot.  Notice I said “make time”.

It took me 5 years to shoot that moss covered tree that I posted last week, an embarassing thing to admit internet!  I mean how long does it take to park my car, get out, and take a few minutes to shoot something that has tugged at my heart for days, then weeks, then months, then years? Well in true form, this week I’m doing another topic that I’ve wanted to for a while.  I have a small ongoing project on windows that I’m doing, which I plan to add to over the next year, but I’ve wanted to do one on mailboxes too.  Call me weird or something, but I notice them all the time when I’m out.  The jumbo size ones on the side of the road, nailed to a piece of slanting wood.  All rusty and dented.  The “creative” ones (I have a few examples I’m going to shoot this week), the cold and sterile cluster boxes.  Whatever it may be, they seem to catch my eye all the time, and I’ve often thought, I should do a series on mailboxes.  Well friends, this is my year to start that and THIS is my week to kick it off.  So this weeks topic will be mailboxes!  It better not rain all week, but even if it does I WILL make it out there, because there’s LOTS of mailboxes I’ve seen in Kitsap County and I’m going to go back and photograph ALL of them

As I leave today I was downloading some cards I have and found this picture of my little Kasen in my slippers, and it made me laugh again!  He loves to put on my shoes- any of them- boots, heels, workout shoes.  All my boys have gone through that phase though….right around 2.