Good ideas have a way of quietly disappearing. Goals, resolutions, projects slide into the I shall bin — overtaken by life, by laziness, by distraction, or sometimes by nothing in particular. Even good intentions eventually stop waiting.
I had a file going: my 365 photography project. One picture a day for a year. It sounds straightforward, and it mostly is — but it asks something of you. Some days the subject simply refuses to appear no matter how long you look. Other days it just isn’t possible to carve out even that small amount of time.
And then one day you stop, and the project gets quietly filed under abandoned.
I didn’t make it to 365. But looking back at what I did shoot, I found pictures worth keeping — and more importantly, I found that the exercise itself had opened something up. It pushed me beyond still life into territory I might not have explored otherwise.
Which got me thinking about variations on the theme. A 365 street photography project. A 365 meal-of-the-day — not recipe sharing, there’s no shortage of that — but simply a record of good food, eaten and appreciated. Small celebrations of daily life.
Those are projects still ahead of me. In the meantime, here’s my modest gallery so far.
Between the Lines 
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