No photo right now, just some words. 


Words about the future and thoughts about my lack of life goals. 


Because I do really lack life goals at this point in my life. 


Yesterday, on a whim, I made a decision... one the I never thought I would come to (oh wow, this sounds so much more dramatic than it should). I decided to make a New Year's Resolution this year. And so I will be beginning a new and trying photo project. One to help me to be more comfortable with who I am and hopefully figure out some things about what I want to do in the future. 


I am going to attempt, as well as I can, to take one photo every day and to write something, even if it is just a few words, to go along with that photo. I know that this is a demanding thing to do but my hope is that it will take me somewhere new in my photography and my life. 


I'm going to start on January 1st and I will be using this space to share my project with, well, everyone. I probably won't be posting anything else until then.... and I know that very few people even read this, but it is becoming more of something for myself than anyone else. 

Today I dropped off some film from China to be developed (finally). Maybe it will inspire me... I hope so, it's starting to get a bit sad around here and I think my cameras are lonely.

There isn't anything new. This feels older than time. 

I need to purge my flickr.

There are things that everyone sees but no one really sees.

I hate when people say photography is an easy artform. That is an impossibility, art is never easy, it is an expression of who you are and therefore takes more courage than most people realize. Good photography evokes the feelings of the photographer in the viewer, good photography tells you something about the soul that was behind the camera when the photo was taken. Good photography is not easy, it is one of the most difficult things I do (and I happen to be teaching myself calculus right now). I simply wish that my photography actually was good, right now it simply feels decent, nothing more, nothing less.

In other news, the winter rains and chills have come back to Portland, part of me dreads it and part of me is excited to be able to continue the project this photo is from... Portland in the Rain.

I almost wish I could live here.

Sometimes I feel like my life is just too much. Even though it's not too much.

I need to purge. I need to clean and organize and get rid of everything that is unnecessary in my life.

This is where they make silk, it was fascinating.

at the center of everything are the winter snows

The Great Wall of China, one of the wonders of the world. I stood upon it, walked along it, and sweltered in its heat.

I need to get out of the city.

Shanghai: 


It is a city of contrasts, some of which I still want to explore.

The beginning of autumn, I don't know where my inspiration has gone.


The same thing happened last year.

In June I went to China, I wish I'd been able to see more of the local lifestyles. I want to go back, I want to go abroad again.

Welcome

Hello and welcome. 


I've decided to start over with this whole blogging thing. I'm hoping to make this more of a photography-based blog. Much of my old blog was more personal, this is going to me more focused on sharing my photography with the world. Hopefully people will find it enjoyable. I'm also hoping to post at least one photo each day, not necessarily something taken that day but something that reflects my moods or thoughts. Besides the photos I'm not planning on having very many words, just a few quiet thoughts to reflect my own inner moments.


-Sydney