[Another] Personal Project · My Summer In Pictures

Have you ever seen those amazing, mythical photographers that complete 365 projects? No? Me either! While I’ve known of many who have started or been in the midst of them, I can count on one hand the number I know who have finished them! For those of you who don’t know, a 365 project is where you take a photo every single day for a year and share it. I’ve been wanting to do one for awhile now, to document my childrens’ lives (they grow and change so fast). It sounds simple enough, but man is it HARD. It definitely challenges your creativity to shoot the same subjects every single day. Not to mention the time it takes to cull and edit all the pictures, again, every. single. day. But the end product is such a treasure and an accomplishment. At one point, I decided to do what I thought was more manageable: a 52 project. My abridged version of a 365… just one picture a week. Embarrassingly enough, I couldn’t even keep up with that!!

I’ve finally decided to attempt another abridged version – 100 days of summer. As my oldest, Phoenix, is leaving for college in the fall, I want to be sure I document as much as I can of my kids lives together, especially for the younger two, Cobalt and Isthmian. These next two months are the last few that they will all be living under the same roof (uninterrupted). Being 13 and 15 years apart in age, I hope my efforts will help them remember when their older sister lived with them. My stretch goal is to get at least one frame with all three of them in it each day, but there many days where my oldest is off with her friends and/or goes to work, and isn’t home until after the little ones are in bed.

Hope you enjoy this glimpse into my life and that it reminds and inspires you to document your own! xo Anna