As summer began, without the constraints of my classroom, I felt like I had enough space in my brain to tackle a photography project. I agonized over what it might be – should I do long exposures? Night sky photographs? Should I play around more in Photoshop? None of the items that popped up felt like they had enough pull to keep my curiosity, but I wanted to do something. I decided that I was overthinking it and chose to just let my project be to take pictures everyday. I’ve done several 365 projects in the past, but I wasn’t planning to make that the goal this time around so I just set out to take pictures each day for a month.

There’s something to be said for making creativity part of your daily routine. It forced me to start paying more attention to my surroundings on a regular basis instead of just when I felt inspired to shoot. I also started thinking about what I wanted to remember about each day and what photo would be best to represent that memory.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

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I was curious about what would get more engagement, photos on my Instagram feed or photos on my story, so I decided to post a different picture on each one. Obviously this complicated matters because instead of just choosing 1 photo each day, I had to choose 2.

I’m sure you can imagine, but that left me with so many photos on my camera roll that never made the cut. Because, if you’re like me, when you need 2 pictures, you can’t just take 2 pictures…

Looking through my camera roll, I found a few gems that never got shared. They were similar, probably taken in the same few minutes as what I ended up using, but maybe the angle was slightly different or the timing was before or after the moment that ended up being the photo of the day.

I guess my next daily photo project will be to spend time clearing out the photos on my camera roll….

Adding to the routine – Angie