One Week Later...

One week after starting the "project," this is what I have learned: I am undisciplined.

Seriously. When I started, I thought, "How hard can it be to take ONE picture a day?" But, having been committed to this for a week, I've realized that I generally find myself thinking, "Crap! I need to take a picture!" at about 10 pm. And so the pictures are bad and boring, and I'm unimpressed, uninspired and kind of embarrassed.

It's not that I haven't had opportunities to take pictures, either. On Day 3, where no picture exists, we had a great day -- We celebrated my birthday with the McEntees, visited the Schroeder familia, and dined at the Backstage. I could've taken pictures of nephews, new baby Schroeder or familia de Nacho. On Tuesday, I had birthday dinner with my sister. I fully intended to snap a picture to document the celebration of our 29th and 26th years. But I was too busy being present in the moment. And that's... not a bad thing. As a very wise woman would say, I'm taking pictures with my heart.

That's the new challenge: Balance. Balancing the discipline and commitment to pay attention to what is around me, to be disciplined enough to follow through, and to not be so concerned about capturing the moment that I miss the moment entirely. And that's not just a lesson in photography.